ISLAMABAD – The Zalmi Foundation and the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) Thursday signed a ‘Partnership Agreement’ to work together towards the promotion of the Sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The agreement was signed by the Chairman, Peshawar Zalmi and Zalmi Foundation, Javed Afridi
and Director, a.i UNIC, Vlastimil Samek here at the United Nations Information Centre.
Afridi said that the foundation has been working for the past 3 years to promote sports and to empower youth in Pakistan, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
They have also been working towards promoting gender equality and women empowerment. After to show partnership with UNIC, we hope to work even with more passion and dedication towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Pakistan, he said.
Samek said cricket programmes provide unique opportunities for youth to be leaders being team captains, team managers, coaches as well as cricket officials.
In these roles, they all become representatives of their communities and are thus required to show the much greater level of responsibility.
I hope that this partnership will help to further deepen the understanding about the SDGs among
the all strata of people, particularly the Youth of Pakistan, he said.
