Pop singer Madonna with activist Humaira Bachal and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid. PHOTO: MADONNA FACEBOOK PAGE
On Saturday, Madonna went on stage at a live concert in London and publicised that she is supporting girls’ education in Pakistan through her Ray of Light Foundation, and urged people to support her cause. She was joined on stage by Humaira Bachal, an education activist from Karachi. The concert had been organised the charity organisation Chime For Change that campaigns for education for women and girls.
A webpage was simultaneously launched on crowd-funding platform Catapult to raise money for the addition of an extra floor at a school in Karachi.
The Dream Model Street School is located in Mawach Goth, Karachi and was founded by the Dream Foundation Trust (DFT), a Pakistani non-governmental organisation.
The school, established in 2005, and claims to have taught over 2,000 students who otherwise would not have had access to education.
The crowd-funding campaign expects to raise nearly $58,000. $932 had been raised at the time of the filing of this report.
On April 3, Madonna announced the auction of a Cubist masterpiece by French artist Fernand Leger to support an education project for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“I want to trade something valuable for something invaluable – educating girls,” she said in a statement.
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@Gul Khan Momand Well then there is no need for such a school.. syllabus designed by Sindh department ?? They might as well use the donations for some other purpose !
Cheap publicity. When they tend to lose their charms they resort to things like that..
Why, couldn't get money from Saudi or Chinese masters?
This is welcome,...as long as the institution is following the syllabus designed by the Sindh Department of Education.
It is indeed a crying shame that Madonna not a religious person has the will & power to support a school in Karachi it is indeed a crying shame that all the rich Pakistanis who claim to be stallions of religious teachings and have billion of dollars in funds being transmitted into the country from family in the UK, USA & Arab countries can allow impoverished schools, dilapidated living condition's and disgusting social health benefits for the improvised.
I like how Madonna is using her huge power to help others. True; time women all over the world had the same opportunities as men.