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NGO Opens Its 170th School For Underprivileged Children

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KARACHI: Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani has praised the exceptional philanthropic support extended by the industrialists of Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) in Karachi to ensure that the children of the labourers employed by them get quality school education.

He expressed these views while speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration of the Al-Badar campus, a school of the non-profit Green Crescent Trust (GCT), at the Sharifabad locality of KIA.

According to a press release, the Al-Badar campus has become the 170th charitable school of the GCT, which has been continuously striving for the past 30 years to educate children from underprivileged families in Sindh. A total of 10 GCT schools at Sharifabad and adjacent Mehran Town localities enrol a total of over 2,222 children out of whom 60 percent are girls.

Up to 80 percent of teachers in these schools are females. The state-of-the-art building of the new GCT school in the area, which has an enrolment of over 350 students, was built in just five months.

The minister praised the GCT’s charitable work in the education sector in Sindh continuing for the past three decades without a pause.

KATI President Syed Johar Ali Qandhari, Deputy Patron-in-chief Zubair Chhya, and GCT CEO Zahid Saeed also spoke.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2024

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