Masood Qazi did his matric from Hermann Gmeiner School in 2008. He was a bright and intelligent student and always produced good results. After finishing his Matric exams, he helped the younger children with their studies in the youth home. He was a very helpful boy, always willing to help the boys of the Youth Home Facility. He applied for admission in a Government Technical Institute and completed a 3 years diploma course in associate engineering. He completed his diploma in 2012, and worked with Akzo Nobel for 3 years. Now he has been working with Pakistan Railway as a Mechanical Engineer for 2 years and is well settled there.

Naqash was admitted to the SOS Children’s Village when he was six years old and studying in class one. After completion of his I Com, he did a Diploma in Hotel management from COTHM. He started his career from Avari Hotel, Hospitality Inn. He received the monthly performance award from Hospitality Inn, which was a matter of great pride for us. Currently he is working as a Home Manager / Accountant in NetSol Technologies. The company offered him to enhance his educational degree, and he completed B.Com from Garrison University Lahore. Now he is leading a successful professional life. He is engaged to be married next year.

Shahbaz Sarfraz joined SOS at the age of 6 in 1997. Shahbaz still remembers his first day at SOS. Everyone was a stranger, and he felt as if he had been thrown into a swimming pool for the first time. “He is a very social child” visitors used to tell us that is what gave him strength to slowly assimilate and become an integral part of the SOS family. Ten years later he successfully completed his matriculation securing first division and Punjab College of Commerce offered him 100% scholarship. It made him so proud to realize that he had become a role model for his juniors. In intermediate, he again secured first division and he was awarded 100% scholarship for BBA (Hons.) by the University of Lahore. He chose to pursue his graduation in Management Sciences. He completed his BBA in 2017 with 2.65 GPA. His days were packed with extracurricular activities, and he secured 2nd position in his university competition in table tennis. Due to his reputation and initiatives, SOS management selected me as a head boy in his 4th semester of BBA. Moreover, during his bachelors, he started getting involved in a lot of extracurricular activities, mostly owing to his skills in managing events and connecting to people. He participated in Punjab Youth Festival on a national level and international level within Pakistan as a part of the management team. He was also a team member of the Chief Minister’s Youth Mobilization Committee for Jashan-e-Baharan event. He was also an active participant in various societies like dramatics, sports and Entrepreneurship in his university. These and other such experiences sharpened his sense of public dealing and enhanced his self-confidence. Radiating with a highly positive frame of mind, he entered the job market, interning at a reputed media group ‘Nawa-i-Waqt.’ Capitalizing upon all his past experiences, He helped them extend their business development efforts. Currently he is working at PEL (well reputed home appliances brand). He continued his consistency and hard work in his professional career. According to his departmental team, he is very creative, honest, active, dedicated and responsible. He worked under Brand team of PEL and worked on designing, E-commerce, sponsorships, dealers relationship building and social media monitoring. His last assignment was at a dealer conference. More than 1500 participants were invited from all over Pakistan. He received appreciation from the all the department heads including the CEO. On the basis of his performance he was recently promoted from management trainee to E-commerce executive. According to Shahbaz “I want to be able to prove that a scared five year old child can achieve all that he wants if he dreams big enough. SOS is the reason why I have the courage to do much more. I am in their perpetual debt, and what I do in my life, I want to dedicate it to SOS”.

Zoya’s mother died in 1996, leaving behind three daughters. Her father was imprisoned on murder charges. After Zoya’s father arrest, her paternal aunt looked after the three girls but, due to financial constraints, could not do it for long. Zoya was 6 years when she was brought to SOS Children’s Village. Ever since she was a child she has been very disciplined and responsible. After her graduation, she decided to do her Masters in Commerce and completed it with very good grades. She was always ready to lend a helping hand to those in need - even with her hectic schedule she managed to help other children in their homework in the evenings. After completing her studies, she got married and went to Dubai but after two years, she came back and now is teaching in a private college. Her husband too holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and has a good job.

Shaheena joined SOS at the age of 6 in the year 2001. She was brought to the SOS Village by the staff of the Services Hospital where she had been left abandoned for three months and was being treated for an injury. After matric she successfully completed her Architectural Drafting Diploma Course from Technical Training Institute for women and at the same time she privately appeared for Intermediate exams and passed with good grades. After that she did a short course in AUTO CAD from ACTMA. Then she started working as an HVAC Auto CAD operator in the mechanical engineering department of ACS Engineering Concern till 2017. Now she is working at Arfa Software and Technology Park with Punjab IT Board as a HVAC Auto CAD operator. Meanwhile she has also completed her bachelor’s degree.