ISLAMABAD: Dawood Global Foundation & Hashoo Group hosted the ‘Educate a Girl Summit’ at the Pearl Continental in Lahore.
The training educated an audience of 200 deserving Educate a Girl Lahore Scholarship winners from grass root background including deserving girls from SOS Children villages, Lesco/Wapda girls high School Shalamar Lahore, Lesco/Wapda girls high school Allama Iqbal Town Lahore, Syedanwala Girls College and cancer patients from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital. Keynote speakers included Australian Honorary Consul General Salim Ghauri, Souriya Anwar, Founder, SOS (Children’s Villages), Syeda Henna Babar Ali, Packages, Sameena Kareem (late Arfa Karim’s Mom), Maheen Taseer (wife of Shabaz Taseer), Hina Salman (make up artist), Omar Jamil, Qasif Shahid, Monis Rahman & Shameelah Ismail.
The full day training was focused on entrepreneurship, coding, negotiation, building a brand, grooming, self-confidence & leadership. “With the partnership and support of so many, we are delighted to introduce our award-winning Educate a Girl programme in Lahore, starting with the education of 200 deserving girls,” stated Tara Uzra Dawood, Founder of Educate a Girl. “The aim of the program is to encourage young women to become leaders and women of influence and are very excited about our fantastic trainers and speakers.” “We at Hashoo Group greatly support education and are delighted to be a host partner with Dawood Global Foundation for the education as training of 200 deserving young girls from Lahore on entrepreneurship, leadership and coding through the Educate a Girl programme,” stated Murtaza Hashwani.
Published in Daily Times, September 24th 2017.
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