Blood Camp COVID-19 Wednesday, April 22, 2020 In the wake of CoViD-19 lockdown, an acute blood shortage... Read more
Exploring Interiors Tuesday, February 18, 2020 The Founder of RETO Foundation & Shades Pakistan, Mr. Shahzad Akbar, arranged an excursion trip with the students of Shades Student Council... Read more
Seminar on SDG 16 'Just, peaceful and inclusive societies' Friday, January 17, 2020 Violent extremism is gaining unwanted traction in the backdrop of heightened cultural and religious conflicts worldwide. ... Read more
Selection in WeCamp incubation program Saturday, December 21, 2019 Ms. Ambreen got selected for WeCamp incubation program, held at Islamabad in the month of December 2019.... Read more
Shades Council Member selected in UGRAD Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Another our student Mr. Rahul Kumar, an attendee of Smart Study Program, got selected in Global UGRAD Exchange Program... Read more
Won Youth Innovation Challenge (UNDP) Thursday, October 10, 2019 Youth Innovation Challenge and conducted a seminar on 'Career Counseling and Mental Health' ... Read more
Global Leaders for Change Thursday, August 8, 2019 Global Leaders for Change was a one day International conference... Read more
Shades Student selection in Amal Fellowship Friday, June 21, 2019 Mr, Faizan Hyder, President Shades Pakistan 2019-20 got selected for Amal Career-Prep Fellowship... Read more
Shades Council Member selected as Ambassador for Culture Without Border at Thailand Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Mr Waqas Akber was selected as a Ambassador for Culture Without Border program... Read more
Mr. Roman, Vice President Shades Pakistan 2016-17 got selected for USA Cultural Exchange Program Sunday, May 19, 2019 The very famous Mr. Roman has completed his US Exchange Program in which he was selected in the year 2018. ... Read more
RETO's Health Chapter Founder, Ms. Rajwanti got selected for International Peace Conference, Dubai Thursday, May 9, 2019 Founder of RETO's Health Chapter and Shades Women Chapter, Ms. Rajwanti is selected as an Ambassador for International Peace Summit ... Read more
Exotic Pets, RETO's incubatee, gets entry into Sindh Research Incubation Centre funded by Information Ministry, Government of Sindh Thursday, April 25, 2019 Exotic Pets, an incubatee at RETO Foundation, is going to breed various species of birds and export them to international market.... Read more
RETO's incubatee PsyKey got featured by Oxfam Novib Saturday, April 6, 2019 PsyKey's Founder, Ms. Ambreen Amin, has been selected and featured in a documentary by Oxfam Novib. She hails from Tando Jam... Read more
RETO explores raw beauty of Sindh as a cultural drive Saturday, March 30, 2019 Kashif, RETO's photographer and designer, has initiated a project to explore raw beauty of Sindh by highlighting... Read more
RETO's team off to Rani Kot for the documentary shoot Sunday, March 17, 2019 RETO team is all set to visit Rani Kot for the documentary shoot of its incubatee companies. The pitches of various social businesses... Read more
RETO's Streetee participated in Nest I/O Incubation Thursday, February 28, 2019 RETO's incubatee, Streetee, earlier named as Cradle and Cave, is initiated by Waqas Akbar, which is a t-shirt company aiming to tackle the issue... Read more
Hamza Akram, President Shades Pakistan 2018 got selected at IBA on Scholarship Thursday, February 14, 2019 Hamza Akram got into RETO through Smart Study Program. After completing the successful SSP program, he was inducted as a member in Shades Pakistan.... Read more
RETO's Health Chapter introduces 'My School Doctor' to track health progress of students Friday, December 28, 2018 My School Doctor, an incubatee at RETO, initiated by the team of Health Chapter, is ready to capture the health progress of children in schools.... Read more
SLI outsourced to Community Based High School, Tando Jam Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Self Learning Initiative, which was started in 2015, has been outsourced to Community Based High School after providing teaching techniques to school teachers... Read more
RETO's incubatee, PsyKey Online, stood winner in First Flight competition by TiE Islamabad Saturday, June 23, 2018 PsyKey Online, an incubatee of RETO Foundation, won the first prize for the First Flight entrepreneurial competition held by TiE Islamabad.... Read more
RETO collaborates with TLS to organize first-ever Animal Modeling Contest titled as 'First Animal Exhibition for Awareness' in Sindh Monday, April 23, 2018 RETO feels proud to announce that student members of Shades Pakistan, Labesh and Wadood, have spearheaded first Animal Exhibition for Awareness... Read more
RETO conducts Shades Student Council Election for 2018 Thursday, January 4, 2018 Continuing the legacy, RETO's student-led initiative Shades Pakistan has conducted its student body elections for its Council 2018... Read more
Shades Alumni members organized Gala at oldest primary school in Sindh Sunday, December 24, 2017 RETO's student-led initiative, Shades Pakistan, has now transformed into a platform of building young & independent leaders of tomorrow.... Read more
Ms. Rajwanti Kumari, founder of RETO's Health Chapter, headed to Turkey for AIESEC Global Volunteer Program Saturday, December 23, 2017 RETO feels pride to announce that our colleague, Miss Rajwanti Kumari, founder of Health Chapter, has been selected for AIESEC, ... Read more
RETO's Founder organized Career Guidance Program in Tando Alayar Sunday, December 17, 2017 RETO's Founder, Mr. Shahzad Akbar, was recently invited by Topper's Academy Tando Alayar to conduct a session on Career Guidance and Academic Degrees l... Read more
RETO celebrates Independence Day 2017 with SOS village children. Saturday, September 9, 2017 This year, RETO celebrates Independence Day with the kids of SOS Village Jamshoro. Students living in the under-sourced area have scarce entertainment opportunities... Read more
RETO's Founder invited by Acumen to share his life story Monday, August 21, 2017 RETO Foundation's founder, Mr. Shahzad Akbar was invited by Acumen to share his life story and fellowship journey with new applicants in Hyderabad.... Read more
First Aid Workshop by RETO's Health Chapter at Badin Wednesday, August 9, 2017 RETO's Health Chapter has continued to organize its series of first aid workshops in the interiors of Sindh, starting from Tando Jam,... Read more
RETO organized Shades Council Annual Dinner Tuesday, June 27, 2017 RETO's Founder organized the annual dinner during the month of Ramazan for the students of Shades Pakistan. Shades Council... Read more
RETO with its 'Donate your One Aftaar' campaign during Ramazan Sunday, June 18, 2017 Pakistan is a poverty striken country with thirty percent of its people lives below the poverty line. Shades Student Council, therefore, initiated a campaign with a name of Donate Your One Aftaar... Read more
RETO launches First Aid Workshop in Mirpur Khas Thursday, May 25, 2017 Health Chapter, an initiative of RETO Foundation, has organized First Aid Workshop in MirpurKhas on 24th May 2017... Read more
RETO launches its Health Chapter by organizing First Aid Seminar Saturday, January 14, 2017 RETO launched its Health Chapter by welcoming the year with positive ambitions and energy with a vision to provide health care education and services to the marginalized areas of Sindh. ... Read more
RETO celebrates its Annual Day with Prize Distribution Saturday, September 10, 2016 RETO Foundation organized its annual day by inviting its members of Shades Male and Female Chapter. The event highlights the big successes and ... Read more
RETO organized largest Independence Celebration in town Sunday, August 14, 2016 RETO Foundation organized the largest Independence Day celebration in the town by accommodating 1500 audience in HB Lawn Tando Jam.Commissioner Hyderabad was invited as Chief Guest for the event. ... Read more
RETO's team visited Edhi Village to Celebrate Eid Friday, July 8, 2016 RETO Foundation's team and volunteers celebrated Eid with children at Edhi Village At Super Highway, Karachi. Gifts and food were distributed to brighten the eid of hundreds of special children, ... Read more
Shades Female Members renovates SLI Lab Sunday, June 5, 2016 Shades Female Members renovate Self-Learning Imitative Lab of RETO Foundation. ... Read more
RETO conducts its fourth session of Smart Study Program 2016 Sunday, May 29, 2016 To continue the journey, RETO has launched 4th Smart Study Program (SSP) for 2016 (July-August). The test was conducted on 29th May, 2016. 300 students appeared for the test from these areas: Tando... Read more
Shades Pakistan first President, Mr.Labesh conducts workshop on scholarship opportunities in rural Sindh Thursday, March 3, 2016 Mr. Labesh Goswami, President of Shades Pakistan for the first elected Council has organized awareness workshops... Read more
Largest and First-Ever International Children Film Festival in Rural Sindh Tuesday, February 2, 2016 For the very first time, RETO Foundation organized the largest International Children Film Festival in Tando Jam with the support of The Little Art Organization. Around 2500 students, teachers ... Read more
Shades Election Campaign 2015-16 Sunday, January 24, 2016 Shades is a student-run organization, established in May 2013, which aims to provide a leadership platform to students of underprivileged areas of interior Sindh. The organization follows a Student ... Read more
Voice Against Terrorism Friday, January 22, 2016 RETO organized the vigil ceremony and prayed for the martyrs of Bacha Khan University. RETO Foundation strongly condemns any sort of terrorism/extremism in the name of religion or race or anything.... Read more
Visual Art Workshops in Schools Monday, January 18, 2016 We at RETO believe that arts is the friendliest medium for the children to learn. Visual Art Workshops and Promo for the largest and first-ever International Children Film Festival organized by ... Read more
Workshop on Scholarship Applications Sunday, January 3, 2016 Our students are taking the ownership and conducting workshops on scholarships and application criteria for various academic institutions of Pakistan including IBA, Mehra, NUST, LUMS and many others.... Read more
A Day with RETO Foundation Friday, December 25, 2015 Aatir Sohail, working at SOC Films on a documentary titled "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness", which has been nominated for Oscars in 2016, visited Tando Jam to celebrate 14th August... Read more
Digital Training Sessions Sunday, December 20, 2015 RETO Foundation organized the first ever digital training sessions for the following audience: Session 1: "Technology and its impact on Education" for the teachers of CBHS as part of SLI project. ... Read more
RETO promoting Art Education in Rural Areas Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Little Arts’ International Children Film Festivals Across Pakistan is a project of The Little Art originated in 2008 and has since then completed its 6 seasons successfully and has reached to an... Read more
Achievement by Our Shades’ Member Sunday, November 22, 2015 Kamlish Goswami, one of our founding student members of Shades Student Council and currently the Head of Shades Mirpur Khas Chapter has been selected for Advanced Youth Council 2015-2016 in US... Read more
Solving Problems Workshop Wednesday, October 28, 2015 Today, the students of Tando Jam were introduced to two new dimensions, for viewing the world they live in. The speakers Amit Pinjani and Jagdeesh Ahuja - both belonging from Sindh are energy... Read more
RETO Chaired Annual Event of CBHS Saturday, October 3, 2015 RETO Foundation's Self Learning Initiative (SLI) is 'reaching out' to the students of interior Sindh with some unique learning concepts based on our approach of integrated subject curriculum.... Read more
Training of Shades Student Council on LEAN Business Canvas Model Wednesday, September 30, 2015 RETO Foundation conducts the training of Shades Council members in Tando Jam on LEAN Business Canvas model, taking Shades Election Council model as a case study. Students are asked to derive the... Read more
Workshop on E-learning and Scholarships Accessibility Saturday, September 12, 2015 In-line with the mission of blending education with technology, RETO’s Shades’ alumni team has conducted the workshop on E-learning and Scholarships Accessibility on 12th Sep, 2015, addressing the ... Read more
RETO’s Shades launched in Mirpur Khas Sunday, August 30, 2015 After successfully launching their student body and educational programs in Tando Jam, RETO is now in Mirpur Khas. The launching SHADESceremony was heldon 30th August, 2015 in the Cultural Hall at... Read more
RETO launched Self Learning Initiative Program Saturday, August 15, 2015 The RETO team celebrated this 14th August with the Tando Jam community. Along with celebrations, the event marked the closing of RETO’s Smart Study Program (SSP) 2015 and launching of the Self-Learner... Read more
SSP students starts commercial t-shirt business as their project Saturday, August 8, 2015 Two students from RETO's Smart Study Program, Hamza and Rahul, challenged their entrepreneurial venture by selling cultural t-shirts... Read more
MoU signed with Community Based High School (CBHS) Tando Jam for the SLI Lab Saturday, August 1, 2015 RETO Foundation, as a part of its Self-Learner’s Initiative, has signed MoU with Community Based High School (CBHS) to launch our first internet enabled computer lab where 156 students from grade 3... Read more
MoU signed with e-Sindh Project launched by Pakistan Institute of ICT for Development Sunday, July 26, 2015 RETO and PIID share a common objective of transforming the future through technology. As we are currently launching e-literacy in Tando Jam (later aim to spread across rural areas of Sindh), we belie... Read more
Shades Eid Milan Bethak Monday, July 20, 2015 The Annual Shades Eid Milan Bethak has been arranged on the third day of Eid-ul-Fitr where all the members, volunteers and Council came and met with the Shades alumni who are currently studying in re... Read more
Science Projects during SSP 2015 Friday, July 17, 2015 Smart Study Program students, under the guidance of our faculty member, Kapil Maharaj, is involved in experimenting with different science projects. ... Read more
Introduction of Shades Students Clubs Saturday, July 11, 2015 RETO Foundation, with a unique idea, has engaged its alumni network by establishing various clubs to guide youth for various professions. The idea is to give a practical taste of different fields to... Read more
Renowned Educationists visited RETO Foundation Monday, July 6, 2015 On Sunday, 5th July, 2015. Lala Rukh and Mr. Kaleem Durrani visited RETO Foundation’s Smart Study Program. Lala Rukh, a passionate educationist who is dedicatedly working to make learning science... Read more
NETSOL visited RETO Foundation in Tando Jam Saturday, July 4, 2015 Netsol's Executive Director Corporate Relations, Saira Ahmad visited RETO Foundation in Tando Jam on Saturday, 4th July 2015. Furthermore, we are very thankful to NETSOL and CEO Netsol, Mr. Salim... Read more
NETSOL in partnership with RETO’s Self-Learning Initiative Tuesday, June 30, 2015 NETSOL has donated computers and funds to help RETO Foundation to construct its Computer Labs for Self Learning Initiative in Tando Jam, Sindh, Pakistan. Self-Learning Initiative intends to instill... Read more
RETO's Heat Wave Campaign in Karachi Friday, June 26, 2015 The sweltering five-day heat wave, which claimed over 1,000 lives, urged RETO Foundation to step in with its team and volunteers. RETO's Heat wave Drive lasted for two days in Karachi in The Indus ... Read more
Runners Up in Hackathon – Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF) Monday, June 15, 2015 Team RETO represented by Co-Founder, Nabeel Muhammad as Team Lead along with Syed Jaffar, Syed Mohsin and Ajay Pinjani participated in 3 days Hackhaton arranged by Pakistan Innovation Foundation... Read more
Initiation of Shades Female Chapter by Rajwanti Kumari Monday, June 15, 2015 Rajwanti Kumari, Manager of RETO’s Shades Female Chapter and a student of MBBS at LUMHS, believes in the equality of gender and therefore she has started this unique initiative where female students... Read more
RETO joined Teach for Pakistan’s Taleem Jiddat Ki Talaash Thursday, May 28, 2015 Teach for Pakistan donated books named “Classroom Innovations: A Guidebook for Creative Teaching” to RETO Foundation, which RETO distributed among teachers in rural areas of Sindh. Our Director... Read more
RETO’s 3rd Smart Study Program commencing in June, 2015 Sunday, May 24, 2015 RETO is going to commence its 3rd Smart Study Program from June 18, 2015. Smart Study Program aims to equip the students of underprivileged areas with equal opportunities to attend educational instit... Read more
RETO team conducts Career Guidance Seminar at Rashidabad Saturday, May 23, 2015 RETO Foundation, with the faculty of Smart Study Program and team of Shades Pakistan, has organized Career Counseling Seminar at Rashidabad.... Read more
RETO and Aao Parhao joined hands to appreciate teachers Friday, February 27, 2015 RETO Foundation signed MOU with Express Media’s Aao Parhao on 27th Feb, 2015 to further promote Aao Parahao’s cause of appreciating the teachers from rural and urban areas of Pakistan. Both organizat... Read more
Shahzad Akbar in Acumen Fellowship Pakistan Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Our Co-Founder and Managing Director, Shahzad Akbar, has been selected in Acumen Fellowship as part of its Leadership Development Program 2015. During the course of a year-long program, Acumen Region... Read more
RETO’s Shades Organized the Largest Sports Event in Tando Jam! Monday, December 29, 2014 The RETO’s SHADES SPORT OLYMPIAD 2014 was successfully held from 25th-28th Dec, 2014 at Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam. The tireless efforts of RETO’s Shades student council team came to fru... Read more
Express media praised RETO’s teachers Saturday, December 27, 2014 RETO joins hands with Aao Parhao to appreciate the efforts of local teachers from Interior Sindh. Aao Parhao, an Express Media group initiative in collaboration with IlM Ideas, is a call-to-action c... Read more
ShADES members and Smart Study alumni get selected by prestigious universities Thursday, December 4, 2014 Even though SHADES and the Smart Study program at RETO are in their nascent stage, they have helped its participants in obtaining admissions in renowned institutions throughout the country. The follo... Read more
Sports Olympiad 25-28 Dec, 2014 in Tando Jam Tuesday, December 2, 2014 RETO Foundation is currently planning out what will be the fourth event organized by Shades, SHADES Olympiad 2014 (SO14). It is scheduled to be held from Dec 25 to Dec 28, 2014 in Tando Jam. The even... Read more
Artist in the Making Sunday, August 24, 2014 Tabish Hanif, and alumnus of the Smart Study program, obtained an admission in the prestigious National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, Pakistan. Tabish is among few students from the town of Tando Ja... Read more