Gearing up to help: With a car show, students raise funds for Ida Rieu
Szabist students organised the event to aid visually and aurally impaired children.
Twenty motorcycles roared into an auto show organised by Szabist students on Sunday to raise funds for the Ida Rieu Welfare Association for the visually and aurally impaired. PHOTO: AYSHA SALEEM/EXPRESS
KARACHI:
Twenty motorcycles roared into the Defence Authority Sunset Club on Sunday, led by young Hassan on his Yamaha R1.
The spectacle was nothing to be alarmed about, though. Fifteen students from the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist) had planned Autorama, a car show, to raise funds for the Ida Rieu Welfare Association for the visually and aurally impaired.
They had pledged their aid to the non-profit organisation, which not only provides academic training but also a wide range of services such as counselling, rehabilitation, employment and advocacy to 700 blind and deaf children.
According to Szabist student Sundila Sadiq, they came up with the idea in their business ethics course. "This is essentially a corporate service responsibility (CSR) activity," she revealed. "We are learning how to keep ethics in mind while carrying out business activities." She added that her team was named Auxilio — Latin for 'helper'.
Their course in-charge, Hina Shamsi, explained that the task of organising this charitable event was given to the students to evoke a sense of social responsibility in them. "They need to learn that they must give back to society what they have learned," she maintained.
Shah Faisal, the leader of the biker group, told The Express Tribune that he wanted to help the visually and aurally impaired students of Ida Rieu and that was why he had decided to come to the event without charging the organisers.
Meanwhile, Ida Rieu textile graphics director Shahzad Zaidi expressed his gratitude to the young students of Szabist for collaborating with them to raise funds for the NGO.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2015.
Twenty motorcycles roared into the Defence Authority Sunset Club on Sunday, led by young Hassan on his Yamaha R1.
The spectacle was nothing to be alarmed about, though. Fifteen students from the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (Szabist) had planned Autorama, a car show, to raise funds for the Ida Rieu Welfare Association for the visually and aurally impaired.
They had pledged their aid to the non-profit organisation, which not only provides academic training but also a wide range of services such as counselling, rehabilitation, employment and advocacy to 700 blind and deaf children.
According to Szabist student Sundila Sadiq, they came up with the idea in their business ethics course. "This is essentially a corporate service responsibility (CSR) activity," she revealed. "We are learning how to keep ethics in mind while carrying out business activities." She added that her team was named Auxilio — Latin for 'helper'.
Their course in-charge, Hina Shamsi, explained that the task of organising this charitable event was given to the students to evoke a sense of social responsibility in them. "They need to learn that they must give back to society what they have learned," she maintained.
Shah Faisal, the leader of the biker group, told The Express Tribune that he wanted to help the visually and aurally impaired students of Ida Rieu and that was why he had decided to come to the event without charging the organisers.
Meanwhile, Ida Rieu textile graphics director Shahzad Zaidi expressed his gratitude to the young students of Szabist for collaborating with them to raise funds for the NGO.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 13th, 2015.