EPCL To Build TCF Schools

Faizan Hashmi Published October 09, 2018 | 11:57 PM

Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited (EPCL) here on Tuesday signed an agreement with The Citizens Foundation (TCF) to set up two purpose-built schools in Ghaggar Phattak, Bin Qasim Town, Karachi.

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Oct, 2018 ) :Engro Polymer & Chemicals Limited (EPCL) here on Tuesday signed an agreement with The Citizens Foundation (TCF) to set up two purpose-built schools in Ghaggar Phattak, Bin Qasim Town, Karachi.

The campuses will be built at a cost of Rs. 50.5 million and will provide quality educational opportunities to the less privileged communities of Ghaggar Phattak villages and adjoining areas.

Under the agreement signed by Imran Anwer, CEO & President of EPCL and Syed Asaad Ayub Ahmad, CEO & President of TCF the two new facilities will serve as a Primary school for girls and boys in the vicinity which lacks quality educational infrastructure.

With the construction of these two new purpose-built schools, EPCL will be providing quality education through TCF to more than 1200 underserved children, said Rao Mubeen Ahmed Head of Public Affairs & CSR of Engro Polymer.

Sharing details of the agreement with local media, he said the scheme is aimed to further increase the outreach and spread literacy in different areas of Gaghar Phattak.

TCF CEO, Asaad Ayub Ahmad, addressing the ceremony said there were more than 22 million children in Pakistan who have never seen the inside of a classroom.

"This leaves them destined to a cycle of illiteracy, poverty and street life," he said, emphasizing that to change this bleak situation, all stakeholders need to come together to take education to the most underserved areas of the country.

The problem is so huge that a small step is like a drop in the ocean but we have to do whatever we can collectively to make a difference, he said.

Imran Anwar, CEO, Engro Polymer & Chemicals said EPCL had also established a primary school with TCF back in 2015 in Haji Jangi Khan Gotth, Gaghar Phattak where approximately 350 students are on the path of success in getting quality education in two shifts (morning and evening).

In April 2018, EPCL took another step to benefit more deserving children by starting a second (evening) shift accommodating around 180 students, he added.