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Submissions are now open. Show us your storytelling skills and compete for this year's top prize.

Submit your entry here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT4QCm22y8hyiPAlmrScxV7DD0fiSiU2mt0S8puDHlMwMFtg/formResponse

With this, we officially open the 2026 essay competition. The topic is a letter to Pakistan in 2036. Submissions are now open. Show us your storytelling skills and compete for this year's top prize. Submit your entry here: https://lnkd.in/ddcmgH_b

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Master the Art of Storytelling: Tips from an Essay Champion Master the Art of Storytelling and elevate your writing! In this video, we sit down with Aitzaz Ahmed, the brilliant winner of our previous essay competition...

This Pakistan Day (23 March), imagine the Pakistan of 2036. Our annual essay competition is back—bigger and more interactive!

Step 1: Future-Proof Masterclass
Learn Failure Mode Analysis, a tool engineers use to understand why projects fail and how to build resilient solutions. (No engineering background needed!)
⭐ Featuring a special mini-masterclass by last year’s essay winner, sharing tips to write a powerful essay.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/LettertoPakistanin2036

Step 2: Write your Letter to Pakistan in 2036.
Submission link will be shared with masterclass participants.

💰 Cash Prize | 📜 Certificates for all.

Organised by Climate Action Pakistan with learning inspiration from FeME Network.

Our is back and this year it’s bigger, bolder, and more interactive than ever! ✉️ Letter to Pakistan in 2036: Learning from Failure to Build Resilience

This Day, let’s celebrate not just our past but imagine the future we want to build. As we mark 23rd March (Pakistan Day), a moment that reminds us of the vision, courage, and collective will that created Pakistan, we invite young thinkers to reflect on the next chapter of our nation’s journey. We don’t just want your hopes; we want your solutions.

How do we ensure Pakistan survives and thrives in the next 10 years? The answer lies in understanding where we've failed before.

- ***Step 1: The 'Future-Proof' Masterclass***

Join us for a 2-hour interactive session where we teach you a powerful tool used by engineers worldwide: Failure Mode Analysis. We’ll show you how to identify why climate and development projects fail so you can write about how to make them succeed.

(No engineering background needed, just curiosity and a passion for !)

⭐ Special Highlight: Aitzaz Roonjha the WINNER of last year’s essay competition, will deliver a , sharing their experience, writing approach, and practical tips on crafting a powerful essay that stands out.

Register for the Masterclass here: https://tinyurl.com/LettertoPakistanin2036

***Step 2: The Letter to Future Pakistan****

Using insights from the masterclass, write your Letter to Pakistan in 2036—a reflection on the challenges we must overcome and the resilient future we must build.

The essay submission link will be shared with participants who attend the masterclass.

Why take this 2-step journey?

✅ Master a new analytical skill for your CV

✅ Learn directly from last year’s winning essayist

✅ Get exclusive tips on winning this year’s challenge

✅ Join a growing community of ‘Future-Proofers.’

💰 Cash Prize for the Winner

📜 Certificates for All Participants & Attendees

This initiative is organized by Climate Action Pakistan, with learning inspiration from the Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) Network, a community dedicated to learning from failure to build more resilient systems and societies.

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Aitzaz Roonjha takes us back to August 2022 in Lasbela, Balochistan, when floods turned daily life into a fight for survival. With raw honesty and powerful storytelling, he shows us what climate change looks like, not in charts or reports, but in broken sandals, tearful silences, and the resilience of communities.
We’re super, super proud to share the winning essay from this year’s Climate Action Pakistan Essay Competition, written by Aitzaz Roonjha, titled “When the Rain Didn’t Stop.” This essay serves as a reminder of why voices from the frontlines matter most in shaping climate action. Read his moving piece here in this article of

Aitzaz Roonjha is an 18-year-old from Lasbela, Balochistan, a young climate activist passionate about creating change. He volunteers with the Welfare Association for a New Generation (WANG ) in , working on and . He also serves as a for University College Cork, Ireland’s research project on . Alongside his activism, he writes blogs to raise awareness about climate change and inspire collective action, and we are overjoyed to have him on our growing team!

University College Cork

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At sunrise in Tharparkar, eight-year-old Fatima Bibi follows her mother to the family’s only well. Three years ago, ten pulls brought up water; now it takes forty for just a brackish trickle. A month earlier, the same family had been marooned by a freak thunderstorm that had wiped out their crop.
This vivid snapshot opens the ayesha ibrar runner-up essay in our Climate Action Pakistan Essay Competition 2025, on the theme: “Is Pakistan Prepared for Climate Change?”
Through Fatima’s story, the essay powerfully reminds us that climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is the lived reality of millions of Pakistanis.
👉 Read the full essay here in this article.
Stay tuned… the winning essay will be revealed very soon too! 🚀


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❌ We have failed as engineers, not because we lacked solutions, but because we often ignored the lessons of failure.
At the Climate Challenge in Edinburgh, we explored how has left communities vulnerable — from flooding at Maldives airports to global challenges in water, energy, and transportation. In our new article, we share how Climate Action Pakistan brought a Global South perspective to these conversations, and why studying failure modes is the key to building truly resilient futures.

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