Final Episode of Coca-Cola Book Bank Activity

A simple ceremony was held today (February 25, 2015) in APR head office in Karachi, to hand over to the education NGO The Citizens Foundation (TCF) approximately 1600 books packed in 9 cartons, collected under the Coca-Cola Book Bank Activity conducted recently at the Karachi Literature Festival 2015. An amount of Rs. 50,000 in cash, from the sales of books inappropriate for TCF students was also handed over.

Photo taken on the occasion shows APR CEO, Zohare Ali Shariff (third from left), handing over the books and the cash to Syed Asaad Ayub Ahmad, President & CEO of TCF. Also present on the occasion were Sukaina Bhagat, Manager Pakistan Resource Mobilization Department, TCF (second from right), Zainab Babar Butt, an active blogger who had helped to spread the Activity message (first from right), Hareem Deeba, Senior Manager Strategic Communications APR (first from left) and Mrs. Yasmin Elahi, writer of children’s books, who had donated 100 copies of her novella for children entitled, Follow the Light (second from left).