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Not just a school. A community.
We are a creative playground and a hope-filled space where childhood is honoured and individuality thrives.
Mission
Rooted in play, growing with love, leading with purpose.
Our mission is to create a learning community where childhood is cherished, curiosity is awakened and creativity has room to thrive. We want children to feel safe enough to question, brave enough to try, and supported enough to become fully themselves.
Our aim is to raise conscious leaders: empathetic, courageous and imaginative people who carry what they learn beyond themselves and into the world with kindness, wisdom and joy.
Vision
Raising conscious leaders to reimagine the future with love, courage and creativity.
Our Values
To wonder. To imagine. To be brave. To be kind. To belong. This is the VLC way.
Curiosity
We ask questions, follow wonder and find joy in discovering what we do not yet know.
Creativity
We make room for imagination, experimentation and the possibility of seeing the familiar differently.
Courage
We give children the confidence to try, fail, speak up and begin again.
Compassion
We practise kindness, empathy and care — for ourselves, for one another and for the world around us.
Community
We learn that we belong to something larger than ourselves, and that learning becomes richer when it is shared.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Muzaffar Bukhari
Muzaffar Bukhari’s journey into education began with a question: what if school could be a place where children were prepared for the future without having to leave their childhood behind?
He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Northwestern University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2006, and an MBA from IMD, Switzerland, graduating with distinction in leadership in 2011. A visit to Finland gave him a particularly clear glimpse of what education could feel like when trust, independence, play and wellbeing were taken seriously.
Muzaffar is an ICF Certified Coach, RYT 200 Yoga Teacher and a practicing therapist, having completed an advanced diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counseling from CPPD, UK.
Fatima Obaid
With more than 36 years in education and a family legacy of educationists, Fatima Obaid brings deep experience across teaching, Early Years education, curriculum design and school leadership. She began her teaching journey in the UAE and later specialised in Early Years Education.
She holds a Diploma in ECED and a Master’s in Educational Leadership and Management from AKU, with research focused on inclusive practices, and is an NLP Practitioner. She has trained more than 500 teachers in pedagogy, curriculum and school leadership.
Her work is grounded in a simple conviction: children flourish when they are met with trust, inclusion and compassion.
Shirin Karimjee
Since 2017, Shirin Karimjee has been at the heart of VLC’s learning journey, bringing creativity, curiosity and care to the work of building a learning community.
Having lived across three continents, from hands-on learning environments in Africa to inclusion-driven classrooms in North America and eventually to Pakistan, she brings a broad perspective to education. An avid reader and storyteller, she personally curates VLC’s libraries, ensuring that books become invitations to wonder rather than simply objects on shelves.
Her warmth and imagination help make VLC a place where learning feels like an adventure.
Come see it for yourself
The best way to understand VLC is to walk through a campus on an ordinary day.
