Shahid Afridi invites girls training to promote Pakistan’s progress

The former captain of Pakistan’s cricket and charity Shahid Afridi has highlighted the crucial role of girls’ training from degraded backgrounds in promoting Pakistan’s development and social progress.

Speaking as a head of visitor to a program held to launch a joint campaign between the Shahid Afridi Foundation (SAF) and the Green Crescent Trust (GCT), Afridi invited the Charity and the Business Community to support the efforts to enroll over 10,000 children outside Sindh.

The event, with prominent donors, industrialists and members of the Karachi business fraternity, saw strong promises of support for the initiative to provide quality education to children in deprived communities throughout the province.

Afridi stressed that Pakistan’s progress would remain incomplete unless girls from marginalized areas gain access to quality school education. “These girls are the future mothers of our society and their education is essential for social transformation. I understand it deeply as the father of daughters,” he said.

The SAF president noted that the Foundation has worked with GCT for the last eight years to deliver education to children in remote and underdeveloped areas. Referring to alarming statistics, he said that more than 25 million children aged five to 16 are left out of school national, stressing the urgent need for registration movements headed by charities.

Afridi, who represented Pakistan in more than 500 international competitions, also turned to non -governmental organizations and charitable groups to expand their promotion to underdeveloped and often disputed areas of Balochistan and Khyberpakhtununkhwa. He thanked Pakistan’s army for the help of security, which allowed the SAF to carry out social welfare activities in these difficult areas.

In addition to education, Afridi has announced plans to expand SAF’s humanitarian work to include housing for homeless families in Sindh and Balochistan, where the Foundation has already built 350 homes. He expressed gratitude to the donors and philanthropists for their continued support.

GCT CEO Zahid Saeed said the organization has, with the help of partners such as SAF, provides quality training in areas not covered by Sindh for more than three decades. Currently, it takes advantage of 170 charities and training about 33,000 children, GCT aims to enroll 100,000 children out of school by 2030 through an extension to 250 schools.

Saeed also revealed that last year GCT opened its first school outside Sindh, Winder, Hub District, with plans to establish similar institutions in Balochistan and Punjab.

The concentration session was hosted by the television presenter and comic Shafaat Ali, who praised the generosity of the Karachi business community. He also recognized the efforts of Junaid Naqi, president of the Korangi Commerce and Industry Union, and charity M. Farhan Hanif in organizing the event.