Written By Zoya Mughal 

 

As a student in TNS, how many times have you found yourself wanting to do good for the society? Or looking for a school led opportunity to gain more exposure to our community and global issues in the world? Well here is where the Philanthropic society, led by Jihan Khan and Aly Khan as its presidents, comes in!

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So, what is the Philanthropic Society?

It is a platform which will be conducting various social welfare projects and activities for TNS students to participate in. This includes awareness of various issues both globally and in our country and bringing a change through the power we have, bring us closer to resolving them. As seen in historic and present-day examples, many revolutionary events are youth-led and that is what the Philanthropic society is promoting.

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What have we done as the Philanthropic Society so far?

Regardless of the fact that this society is fairly new, we have done quite a few activities and are planning many more. As our first activity in the Philanthropic society, we participated in the Lahore Climate March. How? We as the philanthropic community designed posters and stood in protest on the day of the march. We not only did good by speaking up and showing our views about one of the biggest prevailing global issues being faced but had fun in the process as well.

Our second activity was to visit and volunteer at an animal shelter. We as a society believe and feel strongly about animal rights and how they’re treated. We wanted to help out in any way we could and thus, we went to Todd’s Welfare(animal shelter) as volunteers and helped the people running the animal shelter whilst having a good time playing with the animals there.

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Our next big project goes by the name “Wajud-e-Zan se he Kainat mein Rang” which means women colour the world. This project is working on empowering women in the rural areas of Pakistan through art and as part of this project we collaborated with Ali Institute and painted a wall in one of their schools on the theme of women empowerment. It was a huge success as it clearly gave our message whilst being fun. Being there, we gained exposure to a part of our community which we had never been to and it was a very good experience. We plan to paint more walls in the future. Who said doing well for the society couldn’t be fun at the same time?

The second big project we are planning as the Philanthropic Society is “Saaf Shafaaf Pakistan”. It is basically a movement to promote cleanliness in Pakistan through clean up drives and awareness. It is a project that we have just started and will soon be updating you all on soon.

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Want to do the same?

We would like as many people as possible to get involved and join this society as you’re not only giving back to your community and doing good but also having fun in the process.