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'''Shehzad Roy''' (born 16 February 19701977) is a [[Pakistani]] singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist, social worker, producer and humanitarian. He started his singing career in 1995 and has recorded six albums since. He has recorded many hit songs such as "Saali," "Teri Soorat" and "Kangna," but is most famous for his 2008 socio-political album ''Qismat Apney Haath Mein''.<ref name= "nation.com.pk">Emanuel Sarfraz, [http://www.nation.com.pk/lahore/28-Jul-2008/Roys-loud-and-clear-political-message-clicks "Roy's loud and clear political message clicks"], ''The Nation'' (newspaper), published 28 July 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2019</ref> Roy is also the president and founder of [[#Philanthropic work|Zindagi Trust]],<ref>{{cite news|title= Pakistani pop star uses music to educate|url= httphttps://articleswww.chicagotribune.com/2009-/11-/13/news/0911120831_1_honorspakistani-kidspop-streetstar-childrenuses-music-to-educate/|accessdateaccess-date= 13 May 2019|newspaper= [[Chicago Tribune]]|date= 13 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= Zindagi trust|url= http://www.zindagitrust.org/}}</ref> a non-government charitable organisation, that strives to improve the quality of education available to the average Pakistani.<ref>{{cite news|title= Profile: Shehzad Roy|url= http://www.pakistanherald.com/Profile/Shahzad-Roy-706|accessdate= 13 May 2019|newspaper= PakistanHerald.com}}</ref>
Roy has produced and hosted two documentary series, ''[[#Chal Parha|Chal Parha]]'', about the state of public education in Pakistan; and ''[[#Wasu aur Mein|Wasu aur Mein]]'', which follows the travels of Shehzad and a villager and deals with issues like progress, poverty and patriotism in Pakistan.
==Early life and career==
Shehzad Roy was born in [[Karachi]] on 16 February 19701977 to Kabir Roy and Nazli Qamar.<ref name=Dawn4/> His father was a businessman. Shehzad Roy said in an interview to a major Pakistani newspaper that his father always encouraged him to do whatever he had his heart set on because his father wanted to play cricket in his childhood, but was not allowed to do so by his own father.<ref name=Dawn4/> He finished his basic High School education in Pakistan Community School (Saudi Arabia).<ref name=Dawn4/>
===Early music career===
===Public School Reform ===
A few years after Paid-to-learn was initiated, Shehzad realised that this program was not enough to educate the masses. Most children of school-going age in Pakistan (over 85%) only have access to government schools which are plagued with low teacher attendance, dilapidated buildings, poor facilities, a curriculum and teaching culture that starves creativity and encourages rote-learning, etc.<ref name="School Reform Overview">[http://www.zindagitrust.org/overview.php "School Reform Overview"], ''Zindagi Trust website''</ref>
The Trust's school reform project at the SMB Fatima Jinnah Government Girls School in Karachi has involved the following:<ref name="School Reform Overview"/>
* Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Development. For a visual description of this effort, please view the project's "Before and After" picture gallery.
* Administrative Changes such as the merging the multiple schools running in one campus into one school under one administration, maintaining teacher and student records for attendance, performance, etc., disallowing private use of school grounds, formulating an admission policy
* Academic Innovation and Planning such as the introduction of modern, thought-provoking textbooks in Urdu, English, Mathematics, teaching a video-based science curriculum in our well-equipped A/V Room, hiring academic coordinators for English, Mathematics and Science to plan syllabi with learning outcomes and timelines, design tests, monitor progress, observe and train teachers
* Teacher Reform such as monitoring teacher attendance and evaluating teacher performance through regular teaching demos, lesson plan reviews as well as in-class monitoring by academic coordinators throughout the term.
* Introduction of new learning modules such as art, chess, sports (netball, basketball, football, hockey, throwball, taekwondo, rowing, cricket), public speaking, life skills and abuse awareness
=== Reform Matric Board campaign ===
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