Three events to be held for enrolling out-of-school children

The non-profit Green Crescent Trust (GCT) has announced holding three back-to-back events to step up its drive to enrol maximum out-of-school children in Sindh with the start of 2025.

“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 Chief Executive Officer Zahid Saeed.

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 children had earlier 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 would be held to inaugurate a new charitable school of the GCT with an enrolment capacity of 200 students in the underprivileged Mehran Town area of Karachi, after a new donor, Farooq Sattar, adopted the school.

Sattar is a senior partner at the Akbar and Associates (Pvt) Ltd, and he, along with Junaid Naqi, president of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry, would jointly grace the inauguration ceremony as the guests of honour.

Another event would mark the groundbreaking of the new Rajby School of the GCT in the underprivileged Majeed Colony area of Landhi to enrol 200 children. The school would be named Bilqees Sultan campus after the late mother of the donor. It would be completed in a short time frame, and classes would start from the upcoming school education session in April 2025.

The third event would be the groundbreaking of the GCT’s school in the rural area of Khoski in the Badin district with the capacity of 600 students. This school would also be completed within six months so that classes could start as early as possible.

“These events show that we are steadily marching to achieve our expansion plan for GCT’s educational network to increase it to over 250 schools with a cumulative enrolment capacity of over 100,000 children from neglected communities,” Saeed said.