GCT offers upgrading Sindh school education.

KARACHI -- The Green Crescent Trust (GCT) celebrating the silver jubilee of its foundation has offered voluntary services to Sindh government to completely overhaul and upgrade its school education sector in view of its own success story of establishing over 150 not-for-profit schools in remote areas of the province having enrolment of 29,000 students. The GCT Chief Executive Officer Zahid Saeed made an offer to this effect while addressing a press conference along with the Arts Council Karachi President Muhammad Ahmed Shah on Wednesday. The press conference was held as the prelude to a Children Carnival being held on 14 December, 2019 being hosted by the Arts Council to mark the Silver Jubilee of the GCT.

Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi will be the chief guest of the Children Carnival. 'We have successfully proved our model as to how best to utilize public and corporate donations to provide quality education to the children belonging to underprivileged areas of Sindh including that of the backward area of Thar,' said GCT CEO on the occasion of the press conference. He said it is time that similar interventions should be introduced to completely overhaul the public school education sector of Sindh, which required improvements both on qualitative and quantitative fronts.

'Be it the mechanism of the adopt-the-school programme or the famed public-private partnership initiative of Sindh government, we are all willing to provide full assistance to the provincial authorities concerned to overhaul, expand, and modernize the school education sector of Sindh,' he said.

The GCT CEO said that out-of-school children in Sindh posed a serious challenge to the progress and development of the entire country as emergency interventions were required to overcome this challenge. 'The quality of education being imparted at the existing government-run schools has to...