Over a 100 under-privileged children had fun for over a couple of hours at a function organised by a visiting Pakistani artist and social worker Jimmy Engineer at the Brown Beach Hotel here on Saturday.
The function was organised by the social worker, who is on a three-week goodwill tour of the Island country, under his Fun and Food Programme for the under-privileged children. The noted artist plans to organise five more such programmes for such children in different cities here during the next couple of weeks.
The children besides the entertainment, were also provided with sumptuous food.
Speaking on the occasion, Jimmy Engineer said that he had been organising such programmes - which in Pakistan are known as Fun and Food programme - for the under-privileged children in his country, for over three years and he took around a 100 children to different elite restaurants so that the special children could also have some fun that their normal counterparts had as a matter of routine.
He said that now he was expanding his Fun and Food programmes to other regional countries, and "I have chosen to expand the programme from Sri Lanka."
He said that another reason to organise such goodwill programmes in other countries was that lately Pakistan was getting adverse publicity owing to negative stories being printed in overseas press and media and people in other countries thought that Pakistanis were troublemakers.
He said: "With these goodwill programmes, people in other countries will get a first-hand information and a true picture that Pakistanis are a peace-loving nation."
He said that the Union Bank of Pakistan in Sri Lanka was also helping him in his effort to spread the message of goodwill by providing assistance to him in organising these programmes.-PR
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