Since March 2000, through CFC’s Community Driven Development Project the organization has made efforts to counter the deplorable conditions of Mohammadi/ Machar Colony. Mohammadi Colony is located in Karachi, behind the railroad tracks on Maripur road. Its illegal status deprives it of water, sanitation, education and health care. At this point CFC’s most dominating component in the Community Driven Project is Education and using art to raise awareness and funds is exactly what CFC aimed at as part of its education component in Mohammadi Colony.

Every year CFC organizes a summer art program. Professsional artists and photographers from Karachi, along with interns from local schools and colleges are recruited to give instruction to the children from participating school in Mohammadi Colony. Several topics or themes are selected each other to encourage children to use art as a medium to tell stories about their lives. Through this “narrative therapy”, mutual themes emerge and can serve as a basis for uniting the community leading to more effective problem solving.