Former PPMA chief builds school for kids in backward area of Sindh, Mirpur Sakro.

KARACHI -- Former chairman of the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (PPMA) and noted businessman, Dr Kaiser Waheed, has said that he and his extended family take immense pride in their association with the philanthropic cause of donating money for building and running a charitable school in an underprivileged rural area of Mirpur Sakro town situated some 85 kilometres away from Karachi, says a Press release. Dr Waheed was speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the 164th charitable school of the non-profit Green Crescent Trust (GCT) to be built in a Mirpur Sakro

village and to be named after his late father Shaikh Mohammad Anwer Maggoon. The construction of the school is likely to be completed in one year and in the initial phase, it will enroll over 200 children belonging to the underprivileged families living in the nearby rural areas. An underprivileged villager of the area, Shafi Mohammad Samejo, while sensing the importance of education for the area children, donated some 0.75 acres of his farmland to build the school.

The PPMA former chairman expressed gratitude to the GCT for providing the noble opportunity to his family to serve the natives of a backward area of Sindh by providing quality school education to their children. He expressed his resolve that the school would provide top-quality education to the children of Mirpur Sakro villagers matching the academic standards of famous elite private schools in large cities. Tanveer Shah Shirazi, representing the famous Shirazi clan of Thatta, said that he felt immense pride in the fact that a less-privileged villager of the area while in total disregard for his personal gains had donated his land for building a...