The non-profit Green Crescent Trust (GCT) has announced holding three back-to-back events to step up its drive to enroll maximum possible out-of-school children in Sindh with the start of the New Year 2025. Sindh Energy, Planning and Development Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah; Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani; and Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah are likely to attend these upcoming GCT new school events as Chief Guests.
“We are hosting these three events in a short span of six days to reassure our kind patrons and donors that our resolve has been intensifying each passing year to end illiteracy in Pakistan in the shortest possible time,” said GCT CEO Zahid Saeed, TI.He said the unwavering philanthropic support given to the GCT in the past 30 years by its generous donors enabled the non-profit to build 170 charitable schools in such neglected areas of Sindh where earlier children had been deprived of essential schooling services.
“We are fully aware that the challenge of illiteracy in our province is gigantic, but with extraordinary support from our donors, we have been continuously expanding our drive to educate out-of-school children,” he said.One of the three events will be held to inaugurate a new charitable school of the GCT with an enrolment capacity of 200 students from the backward Mehran Town area in Karachi, after a new generous donor, Farooq Sattar, has adopted this school. Sattar is the senior partner at Akbar and Associates (Pvt) Ltd., and he, along with Junaid Naqi, KATI President, will jointly grace the inauguration ceremony as the guests of honour. The other event will mark the groundbreaking of the new Rajby School of the GCT in the underprivileged Majeed Colony area of Landhi to enrol 200 children. This school will be named after the late mother of the donor, as Balqees Sultan campus. This school will be completed in a very limited time frame.
