Governor House to host dinner to support network of 800 welfare projects

The Sindh Governor House will host a fundraising dinner on April 27 and the funds generated on the occasion will be utilised for over 800 charitable projects of Green Crescent Trust (GCT) situated mostly in remote and less developed parts of the province.

The donations collected at the annual fundraising dinner of the trust would be utilised to support 153 schools and water supply projects of the GCT for 600 villages in Sindh. The beneficiaries will be the over 29,000 students enrolled in the network of the GCT’s schools being run on a charitable basis in rural and remote parts of the province.

”We are very thankful to Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair as he has given his consent to host this year’s annual fundraising dinner of our trust at the Governor House, as this place will serve as the best venue for the get-together of all the prominent people of the city who generously donate for philanthropic causes,” said GCT CEO Zahid Saeed.

“This is the best suitable manner how the government could actively facilitate a non-governmental charitable trust to continue with and expand its philanthropic projects to fulfil educational and other fundamental needs of the people living in disadvantaged and less-privileged areas of Sindh,” said Zahid Saeed. “Out of our 29,000 students, some 46 per cent are girls while 65 per cent of 1,300 teachers associated with our schools are females showing well that how much our trust is committed with the cause of women empowerment so as to make the female population of backward areas educated, socially active, and earning members of our society.”

He said that Thar being a less developed and far-flung area of the province of Sindh had become the special focus of educational and water supply projects of the trust where it had been continuing with its services without any discrimination on the basis of caste, language, gender, religion, or social status.

He said that in March this year, the governor had inaugurated the latest purpose-built building of the GCT’s new school in Mithi in Thar. “Recently students of our school actively participated in the first-ever Thar Science Festival and secured several distinctions as this is one sign proving well that our educational project has been imparting quality education to children of less privileged families,” said Saeed.

“All these philanthropic activities have been continuing for the last 23 years as the annual expenditure of the GCT to run its charitable projects has been increased to Rs300 million. To meet this recurring expenditure and to do more such welfare projects, we do need active and unwavering support of philanthropists in the society,” he added. “Last year, we collected Rs 70 million through our annual fundraising dinner, and this time we are expecting to raise much more.”