Friday, June 17, 2011

RESULT DECLARATION OF International “Poster/Drawing/Photography Contest, 2011

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (“PETA”) is a non-profit animal protection organization, located in Andheri (West), Mumbai and Foundation for a Drug- Free World is an International Organization based in Los Angeles, California, functioning in Pakistan under the support of Pakistan Coordinator, Munir Moosa Sewani.

Both organizations signed an agreement to launch a joint venture in May 2011 to raise awareness about animal rights and to demote animal cruelty. In this regard, Foundation for a Drug-Free World and PETA (India) recently launched International “Poster/Drawing/Photography Contest, 2011. More than 400 institutions participated and 6000 entries were received from all over Pakistan. It was a competitive event where extremely talented children and youth participated to share their level of knowledge. The results were declared recently in a local hotel by Poorva Joshipura, Chief Functionary PETA, India and Munir Moosa, Coordinator, Foundation for a Drug-Free World.

The first positions were bagged by Khalid Bhatti of Lahore, Meher Nawaz of Lahore Grammar School, Salma Neelofer of Chitral and Jamila Khan from Peshawar. The second positions were bagged by Arooj Majid of Laurelbank School System, Lahore, Aleema Minallah of Khaldunia High School, Islamabad, Salima Kasim of Karachi, Sundus Nasim of The Mama Parsi Girls’ Secondary School, Karachi & Rifaut Rasul of Qamar-e-Bani Hashim School while the third position was bagged by Sajjad Ahmed Qureshi of Karachi Cadet School.

All the winners received cash prizes, medal, gift hamper and International certificate while the top 28 participants received medal, International certificate and a gift hamper. The gifts and cash prizes were sponsored by Foundation for a Drug-Free World, while the t-shirts and certificates of the selected posters were sponsored by PETA, India.
On this occasion, Munir Moosa Sewani said that the main motive behind organizing such activities was to raise the awareness level of the students about animals. Each participation means educating the whole family and the whole institution. He further added that children in Pakistan showed their willingness to promote animal rights through their art and it shows that animals are creature not slave. He strongly believes that such activities can help to explore creativity of students at the same time preparing them to take wise decisions in life about animals. He further added that The Holy Qur'an strongly enjoins Muslims to treat animals with compassion and human have a special responsibility to be fair, just and kind to all other living things. He lately thanked all the institutions for putting up all the efforts in promoting animal rights and congratulates the team members for a successful venture with an Indian organization.

On this occasion, Poorva Joshipura through her telephonic conversation said that PETA India is proud to work with Foundation for a Drug Free World in using art as a medium to teach young people to have respect and compassionate towards animals. She appreciated the efforts of Munir Moosa and is looking forward to work on the further joint projects.

Addressing the gathering, Munir Moosa Sewani said, Bollywood star like Shahid Kapoor, Imran Khan, Sonu Sood, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Priyanka and so many others joined PETA in order to raise awareness among the masses about animal rights. We are delighted that such role models are playing their social responsibilities with zeal. Munir Moosa hopes that the lollywood actors would soon come ahead and would join the mission to promote animal rights in Pakistan.

The pipeline projects of PETA (India) in Pakistan are to arrange workshops, seminars and awareness walk.

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