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Join a Noble Cause

In any capacity.

Join CSIC

Join a Noble Cause, in Any Capacity

This is a work of community building service, and everyone is welcome to share in it. Whatever you can give, a story, a skill, an hour, an internship, a room, a laptop or a scholarship, this is the door. Send your CV and tell us how you would like to take part.

1. Pick your roleFind the card below that is closest to you. If none fits, choose the nearest.
2. Send your detailsUse the button on the card, or the form and CV window underneath.
3. We write backSomeone reads it and replies personally, then places you where you can help most.

As a Student

How you can contribute
  • Join the studio, editing, outreach or research team
  • Carry the work into your own campus as an ambassador
  • Help on a school or college visit, or an event
  • Tell your classmates, and bring a friend
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

A certificate of participation, real experience for your CV, and a mentor.

What to send

Your CV, or three lines about you if you do not have one yet, your programme and semester, and the hours a week you can give.

Join as a Student

As an Alumnus or Alumna

How you can contribute
  • Mentor one student for a year
  • Offer an internship, a first job or help with a start-up
  • Record your story, or teach a skill in a short session
  • Support a scholar kit for a student the head names
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

A named credit, a certificate, and a young person who remembers you.

What to send

Your CV, your organisation and role, and what you can offer.

Join as an Alumnus or Alumna

As a Colleague

How you can contribute
  • Advise, or take the counselling and well-being part of the work
  • Deliver a guest session, or a lecture for CourseMera
  • Mentor students, or supervise a small study
  • Bring your class or your research question
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

Named acknowledgement, co-authorship on joint studies, and students who benefit.

What to send

Your CV, your department and institution, and your area of work.

Join as a Colleague

As a Professional or Employer

How you can contribute
  • Host an intern, or pledge a first job
  • Mentor one young person
  • Sit as a guest and tell the story of your work
  • Direct CSR toward scholarships, devices or a course
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

First access to prepared graduates, and a published case of your organisation.

What to send

Your CV or a short profile of your organisation, and what you can offer.

Join as a Professional

As a School or College

How you can contribute
  • Host a half-day visit: a room and a morning
  • Nominate the top students of each class for mentoring
  • Invite career and counselling sessions for your students
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

Guidance your students would not otherwise get, and a record of the visit.

What to send

No CV needed: a short note from the head with the institution, city and the classes you would like us to reach.

Invite Us to Your School

As a Funder or Donor

How you can contribute
  • Fund a scholar kit: shoes, uniform, bag and books
  • Give a merit award: a laptop, phone or tablet
  • Support a scholarship, or a course to be digitised
  • Give through CSR, zakat, grants or in kind
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

A register of every contribution, photographs with the head of the institution, and a report.

What to send

No CV needed: a note on what you would like to support, and how.

Join as a Funder

As a Researcher

How you can contribute
  • Co-design a study on youth, work, well-being or education
  • Share instruments and samples across countries
  • Turn findings into plain language for the Research Bulletin
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

Co-authorship, named acknowledgement and a share in the data.

What to send

Your CV and your research area, with one line on the study you have in mind.

Join as a Researcher

As a Storyteller or Well-wisher

How you can contribute
  • Tell your own story, or nominate someone who changed something
  • Share CSIC with people who could use it
  • Give an hour, a skill or a word of encouragement
What you receive, and what we ask
What comes back

A recorded place in the story of Pakistan, or the satisfaction of a lamp lit for another.

What to send

Three lines about you or the person you nominate, and why their story matters.

Share a Story or Say Hello
For the team, the ambassadors and everyone concerned

Send Your CV

Whether you are a student, an alumnus, a teacher, a professional, an employer, a researcher, a school head or a well-wisher, send your CV. It is read by a person, and someone writes back.

Tick one or more ways you would like to take part
  1. Use the form (the second button), or write to [email protected] with the subject Join CSIC: your name. The first button fills the email in with the boxes you ticked.
  2. Send your CV, one or two pages, as PDF or Word: upload it in the form, attach it to the email, or paste a link to it.
  3. Say in three lines who you are and where, how you would like to take part, and the hours a week you can give.

Your CV is held by the Centre for its own records and is not shared. To have it removed, write and say so.

Three ways in

Be Part of It

Everything on this page was built by people who wrote one email. There is no committee to get past and no form to fill in.

1

Tell Us Your Story

If you changed something and nobody asked you about it, or you know someone who did, that is exactly the person this channel exists for.

  • Anyone, from any walk of life: workers, officers, executives, farmers, industrialists, teachers, artists, athletes
  • A long conversation, recorded properly, published in Urdu or English
  • A certificate of participation, handed over in person
  • Nominate someone else, and say in three lines why
Share a Story
2

Become an Ambassador

Carry the work into your own campus, company or town. More than 150 people already have, and an hour a week counts.

  • Digital, editing, virtual resource, innovation and campus roles
  • Leadership development sessions run for the volunteer force
  • A certificate of participation, and one of appreciation for sustained work
  • Your own welcome card, and a named place in the record
Apply to Be an Ambassador
3

Collaborate With Us

The AI work, the industry bridge and the international study all began the same way: one conversation that did not stop at the recording.

  • Universities and researchers: one instrument, two countries, shared authorship
  • Industry: interns, cases, guest sessions, mentors, CSR on Goals 4, 8 and 10
  • Funders: the on-site programme from February 2027, recorded and reported
  • Schools and colleges: a half-day visit, arranged around your timetable
See What Partners Do
To our alumni

You Were Grown Here. Now You Are the Tree.

An apple tree does not eat its own fruit. You came through a classroom like this one, and what you have now can feed a student you will never meet.

The ask goes in a deliberate order, smallest first, and nobody is asked for the next thing until the last one is comfortable.

First A student's education

One contribution, one young person who stays in school instead of leaving it. This is the first ask and the smallest, and it is the one that compounds.

Then An internship for the best of them

You know what your organisation actually needs. Take one student for a season and let them find out what work is.

In time A job, or a hand with a start-up

The last step, and the one that changes a household rather than a semester.

And if none of those is yours to give right now, give what you know. Free training in the skill you picked up last year is a donation, and so is an hour on camera saying how you actually did it, including the parts that did not work. For a student who has never met anyone who made it, that hour is the whole thing.

Write as an Alumnus
An invitation to universities, industry, funders, institutions and volunteers

Become a Mission Partner

The three wings and CSIC run in the open and are built with partners. Everyone who shares the mission is invited to join it as a mission partner. Here is what each kind of partner can do, and what comes back.

Universities and Researchers

Local and International Research Partners

Joint studies on the working model of the AASSREC project: one instrument, two countries, shared data, co-authorship on the paper and the policy brief.

More
  • Co-design a study on youth, work, well-being or education
  • Share instruments and samples across countries
  • Publish plain-language takeaways through the Research Bulletin
What comes back: co-authorship, named acknowledgement, a share in the data, and a partner who delivers on time.
Industry and Employers

Industry Partners

The bridge between the classroom and the workplace runs through you: interns, cases, mentors and guests.

More
  • Host interns who write your organisation's case for the classroom
  • Sit as a guest on Unsung Achievers and tell the story of the business
  • Mentor one young person, or pledge an internship or a first job
  • Direct CSR toward measurable work on SDGs 4, 8 and 10
What comes back: a published case of your organisation, first access to prepared graduates, and a recorded place in the story of Pakistani enterprise.
Funders and Donors

Local and International Funders

The on-site programme starts in February 2027 and is being resourced now. A contribution buys something concrete, and every contribution is recorded and reported to the giver.

More
  • An on-site visit to a public school or college, with books for the best of each class
  • A scholar kit: shoes, uniform, bag and books for a student the head names
  • A merit award, a laptop or a smartphone, for the best student of a class
  • A course digitised, or a recording studio kept running
Routes: research grants, CSR, zakat and personal giving, in-kind support. What comes back: a register, photographs with the head of the institution, and a report.
Schools, Colleges and Universities

Host an On-Site Visit

From February 2027, a team of four to six comes for a half day: a Stories screening, a career session by class, an awareness session on well-being and digital safety, and a course enrolment.

More
  • Public schools and colleges of Punjab first, girls' institutions included
  • The top five of each class matched to a mentor
  • Nothing asked of the institution but a room and a morning
What comes back: guidance the students would not otherwise get, and a record of the visit for the institution.
Alumni and Volunteers

Mentors and Ambassadors

Over 150 ambassadors registered by December 2024. The work is done by people who give their time.

More
  • Mentor one young person for a year
  • Join a visit, record a story, translate, edit, or run a session
  • Write for this site
What comes back: a certificate of participation, a named credit, and a young person who remembers you.
Media and Institutions

Public Bodies, Media and Networks

Education authorities, professional bodies, chambers, networks and media that reach young people or the institutions that serve them.

More
  • Open a door to schools and colleges in a district
  • Carry the Research Bulletin and the stories to a wider audience
  • Recognise participation with a certificate that carries weight
What comes back: evidence, content and a working model to point to.

How to Apply

Anyone who wants to become a mission partner, an individual or an organisation, can apply by email. Subject line: Mission Partner: your name or organisation. Attach your CV or a brief profile, and write in a few lines:

  1. Who you are, and where
  2. Your intent: what you want to work on with us
  3. What you can offer: a study, interns, a visit, funds, time, or a skill
Apply to Become a Mission Partner

Every application is read. Partners are confirmed in writing, and the work starts from the first conversation.

Institutional contact: Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. Tel +92 42 111 001 007.

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Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
[email protected] · Tel +92 42 111 001 007
For the projects, the articles and the Bulletin: [email protected]
Social Impact Projects
Founder, Unsung Achievers, an educational YouTube channel: youtube.com/@UnsungAchievers-podcast
Founder, CourseMera, an e-lecturing platform, an initiative of Unsung Achievers: youtube.com/@CourseMera
Website: unsungachievers.org
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