The Citizens Foundation’s Norway chapter arranged its second fundraising Gala on 15th October, 2016. Held at the Norwegian Red Cross Centre in Oslo,the event was attended by more than 100 people. In his welcome address, the President of the Norwegian Red Cross, Sven Mollekleiv, stressed upon the value of education in countries like Pakistan. This was followed by an inspiring talk by Tina Shagufta Kornmo, co-founder, LIM Network, on her journey and impact of education in her life. Two folk artists added color to the evening by live Tabla and Rhubarb performance and Signe Eide a Norwegian artist sang to her acoustic guitar.
The ambassador of Pakistan, Her Excellency, Riffat Masood spoke about the importance of Public-Private Partnership in providing education to the growing population of Pakistan. She held the view that in the absence of a strong public infrastructure for education, organisations like TCF are helping fill the gaps and overcome the growing menace of extremism and polarity. She appealed to the diaspora to play their role and support the government by transferring international best practices in the area of education and child learning along with the financial support.
TCF Norway is on a mission to build a school in Punjab, Pakistan as part of The Citizens Foundation campaign ‘141 Schools for Peace’- a school in honor of each one of the victims of the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014. The funds raised at the event have enabled the Norwegian chapter to move closer to the attainment of this goal
