UNICEF HPT School Tent — 24 m² / 48 m² / 72 m²
Three sizes from the UNICEF Innovation High Performance Tent program, manufactured at our Karachi factory: 24 m² (single-classroom), 48 m² (double-classroom), 72 m² (assembly hall / cold-chain warehouse). ISO 9001 production with thirty years of supply history into UNICEF country offices and education-cluster partners.
Babson & Noller Corporation has supplied UNICEF and partner agencies for nearly thirty years across the categories where canvas matters most for children. School tents through education-cluster procurement, child-friendly-space marquee tents, and cold-chain warehouse tarpaulin cover for vaccine and nutrition stockpiles. This page is for UNICEF Supply Division (Copenhagen) procurement officers evaluating Pakistani suppliers for the next purchase cycle.
Past supply · Sindh Education Department school tents · 2010 + 2022 flood education-cluster · Türkiye 2023 child-friendly spaces
Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza: physical demand is high, in-region preference is the new normal.
Sudan refugee response is $1.6B underfunded; 71,000 families in eastern Chad still have no shelter assistance. The UNHCR Regional Refugee Response 2026 plan classes Sudan as the world's largest displacement crisis (9.3M IDPs, 4.4M cross-border). Eastern Afghanistan earthquake response: 90% of affected families remain in inadequate temporary shelter as of March 2026. UNICEF Supply Division has formalised the regional-presence preference: "genuine operational presence... not just distribution agreements routed through Nairobi or Dubai intermediaries." Karachi-Port Sudan and Karachi-Kabul are exactly the corridors BNC has logistics edge on.
Source: UN News (Feb 2026) · OCHA Sudan HNRP April 2026 · Specialized Logistics analysis
Three campaigns where BNC tents went into the field through UNICEF channels.
Sindh Education Department school tents · multi-year
Repeat supplier for school continuity tents during the post-flood education-cluster procurements in Sindh, heavy-duty cotton canvas frame tents capable of housing thirty to forty children with chalkboard and storage cabinet retrofit. Same product line is exportable into UNICEF education-cluster procurement.
Türkiye-Syria earthquake · February 2023
Tents consolidated through Kızılay (Turkish Red Crescent) and IFRC, including child-friendly-space tents and child-survivor accommodation marquees. Airlifted through Saudia Cargo and Turkish Cargo into Adana and onward into Hatay province within seventy-two hours of order.
Pakistan flood education response · 2010 and 2022
Education-cluster procurement during both Pakistan flood responses. Temporary classroom tents, child-friendly spaces, and tarpaulin cover for damaged school buildings. Procurement consolidated through partner INGOs operating under the UNICEF education cluster mandate.
Built for child-occupied spaces
Direct manufacturer, single legal entity from cutting floor to country-of-origin certificate. No trader mark-up, no second factory we subcontract to in China. The product on the container is the product the supplier-qualification team can come and inspect at the same address.
Heavy-duty canvas frame tents, 35 to 60 m² floor footprint, full standing height Steel pole frame with reinforced canvas attachment points (no rope-only construction for child-occupied use) Mosquito mesh on doors and windows, central or twin-pole configurations Optional waterproof PVC ground cloth, tarpaulin retrofit kits for damaged school buildings Compliant with WHO child-friendly-space minimum spatial standards
"When there is an emergency, the agencies that buy tents go to whoever has stock and can deliver. Whether you are on a registry or not is secondary. We have supplied UNICEF and many other UN bodies directly across thirty years, because we keep canvas in stock and ship the day the order lands." Syed Rayhan Ahmad · Managing Director · BNC, Karachi
Capability statement, ready to share with the qualification team.
If your team is sourcing for the next school-tent or child-friendly-space stockpile, or evaluating Pakistani suppliers for the supplier roster, we can quote on the same business day in Karachi (which is overnight for Copenhagen). ISO 9001, sample assay reports and recent bank reference shared on supplier-qualification request.
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Spec compliance, production capacity, QA flow, shipping lanes — sized for your category team to read in 10 minutes. Email-gated. Reply within one Karachi business day.
I'm with UNICEF (or a UNICEF education-cluster INGO) and would like to discuss school-tent or child-friendly-space procurement.
Tell us volume, destination, INCOTERMS, and which spec you are working to. We come back the same business day in Karachi (overnight for Geneva, same-day for Copenhagen and Dubai) with a quote and the relevant certifications attached.