Abdal is the Project and Communications Manager at British Council’s ILMPOSSIBLE: Take A Child to School program. ILMPOSSIBLE focuses on enrolling out-of-school children in government primary schools and ensures their retention through the primary school cycle. Abdal also works as an education consultant with the World Bank, where he focuses on evaluating teaching methodologies and is the Founder and Creative Director of Paperplane, a digital marketing firm that focuses primarily on developing and executing communication campaigns for nonprofit organisations.