Education drive for needy children.

Byline: KHALIL AHMED

Green Crescent Trust (GCT) is among very few credible names with outstanding 3000+ existing and ongoing charity projects for the last 28 years. Green Crescent Trust intends to start 350 new schools in next 5 years.

SAF-GCT charitable alliance:

The alliance between two leading non-profit contributors of Pakistan to educate children of underprivileged communities was able to get massive support of leading businessmen and industrialists from Lahore for the schooling of at least 10,000 out-of-school children. The third joint fundraiser of Shahid Afridi Foundation (SAF) and Green Crescent Trust (GCT) was held in Lahore at a local hotel as it was the first time the charitable joint venture between the two charities stepped outside Sindh to expand their drive to educate children of the backward areas of Pakistan.

The most appealing feature of the fundraiser was the participation by leading Pakistani sports and show business celebrities including Anwar Maqsood, Adnan Siddiqui, Shahid Afridi, Jahangir Khan, Ahmad Shahzad, and Shahbaz Senior. The memorabilia belonging to the sports celebrities were also auctioned on the occasion to raise money for the charitable cause.

Leading names of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and other trade bodies of Lahore and the rest of Punjab attended the event.

Total over 400 businessmen, industrialists, philanthropists of Lahore attended the fundraiser and announced donations for the joint SAF-GCT charitable drive.

Akhuwat Founder, Dr Amjad Saqib, was one of the prominent guests of the event who personally announced Rs 2.5 million donations for the charitable school education campaign of the two non-profits. Dr Saqib also announced to join hands with the SAF-GCT to further the drive to establish charitable schools for the deprived communities all across Pakistan.

Students from backward areas of Tharparkar and Kashmore in Sindh presented welcome tableaus to thank the philanthropists and businessmen of Lahore for their participation in the cause to educate children of the underprivileged areas.

Prominent writer Anwar Maqsood used his celebrated humourist style to have a dialogue with Shahid Afridi to...