Staff Reporter
Cricket legend Shahid Afridi has appealed to the Sindh Government to join hands with him in his drive called “Educate a Child”. The famous cricketer turned philanthropist made this appeal in a joint statement along with Zahid Saeed who is the CEO of his partner charity Green Crescent Trust (GCT)
The SAF has been running the eight charitable school in Karachi enrolling 2400 underserved students for over two years in collaboration with the GCT that in total runs 150-plus charitable schools in Sindh having enrolment of 29,000 children of the needy families.
“We have been working in the education sector for past six years while the GCT has 26 years’ experience of educating children of the backward areas. So we as an alliance have the combined experience of 32 years to educate children of neglected areas of Sindh.” said Shahid Afridi in the joint statement.
“Our alliance has the earnest desire to work with the Sindh government for this noble cause,” he said
Afridi, who is the Chairman of SAF, said that if the schools didn’t follow the SOPs then there would always be risk that the government had to once more order closure of the educational institutions if they emerged as a source of the spread of the coronavirus in Pakistan. He said that strict observance of SOPs would also be necessary because any violation of the Covid-19 safety precautions would endanger the health of millions of students, their families, teachers, and other school staff. Also on the occasion, he appealed to the concerned donors, philanthropists, corporate sector and well-off persons to come forward and wholeheartedly support the joint charitable drive of SAF and GCT to educate children of the needy families in Sindh.
Zahid Saeed Said; “We have been sharing the burden of the state and the government as we strive hard to enroll out-of-school children in Sindh who are in millions so every resourceful person or organization.
