ICCI donates Rs20m to Pakistan Sweet Homes

The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) hosted a Barkat-e-Sehar programme in collaboration with Serena Hotels, Islamabad and collected donations of around Rs20 million for Pakistan Sweet Homes.

According to a press statement, prominent traders and industrialists of the city attended the programme. Addressing the event, Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, ICCI President, announced to give 50 kanal land in Chakwal to Pakistan Sweet Homes (PSH) for constructing its branch in that area.

He paid tributes to the services of Zamrud Khan, Patron in Chief of Pakistan Sweet Homes, who has dedicated his life to the welfare of orphans. He said that Zamrud was grooming and educating orphans like a father which was commendable.

He urged the members of the business community to fully cooperate with Pakistan Sweet Homes so that this institution could continue to provide better care to the orphans and enable them to become productive citizens of the country. He thanked the traders and industrialists for making rich donations to PSH and assured them that ICCI would continue to cooperate with PSH in this noble cause.

Speaking on the occasion, the PSH’s Patron in Chief thanked ICCI members for contributing to the welfare of angels and fairies of Pakistan Sweet Homes. He also thanked Bakhtawari for announcing 50 Kanal land for PHS and said that soon, the construction of a centre of PHS would be built on that land.

He said that with the blessings of Allah the Almighty and the cooperation of philanthropists, PSH has been making good progress day by day and has set up many centres across the country. He said that with the help of philanthropists, the first cadet college in the history of the world has been set up on an area of 80 kanals for orphans on GT Road in Sohawa in which hundreds of students are currently studying.

Zafar Bakhtawari, Secretary General UBG said that Zamurrad has brought a revolution in serving the orphan children as he has built many centres for them. He said that Zamurrad has been given Hilal-e-Imtiaz in recognition of his services to orphans and hoped that a day will come when he will be given the Nobel Prize which would make him the pride of Pakistan.

Faad Waheed Senior Vice President, Engr Azharul Islam Zafar Vice President ICCI, Sheikh Baser Daud, Ch Javed Iqbal, Akhtar Hussain, Dr Usman, Humayun Kabir, Muhammad Naveed Malik, Khalid Chaudhry, Faheem Khan and others were present at the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 10^th, 2023.