The Green Crescent Trust hosted a ceremony in Rawalpindi focused on promoting education in underprivileged communities, with Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce president Usman Shaukat attending and addressing the gathering.
Usman Shaukat commended the Green Crescent Trust for its exceptional services to deprived communities and urged philanthropists and the business community to come forward to support efforts that expand education access. He emphasized the need to accelerate school enrollment campaigns for out-of-school children in remote and underserved areas.
The president highlighted the Trust’s targeted work, particularly in rural and disadvantaged districts of Sindh, praising its role in delivering quality school education to communities that otherwise have limited options. He called on traders and donors to take an active role in building sustainable educational opportunities.
A large gathering of prominent philanthropists and donors from the federal capital attended and announced generous commitments to help register children who are currently out of school. Organizers said the funds raised will enable the Green Crescent Trust to provide quality education to roughly 5,000 students for one year.
In his presentation, Green Crescent Trust chief executive Zahid Saeed outlined the seriousness of Pakistan’s education crisis and reviewed the Trust’s three-decade record. He stated that over the past 31 years the Trust has established 173 charitable schools and educated more than 34,660 students, of whom about 40 percent are girls, while supporting approximately 2,150 orphan students.
