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After a three-month closure and extensive coronavirus reconfigurations, Musso & Frank Grill will reopen to the public on Friday, June 26, with modified hours Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 5 p.m.-11 p.m., and Sundays 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Customers must make online reservations prior to arriving.

To ensure safety for both customers and staff, the new landscape looks like this:

Musso & Frank Grill Old Room (Michele Stueven)

Women-owned and founded ice cream brand CoolHaushas just released a new flavor in celebration of Pride month. EnjoyMINT For Allis a celebration of the progress thats been made for the LGBTQIA+ community. As a queer-led business, Pride is especially personal to Coolhaus and each year they look forward to supporting their mission to empower, inspire and represent all.

The new dairy free EnjoyMINT for All combines a peppermint base with a rich trail of chocolate cookie crumbs and a gooey purple marshmallow swirl. The frozen dessert is available now at National Co+op Grocers nationwide as well as limited availability on Uber Eats and Postmates in select locations.

Chado Tea, is donating the proceeds of all in-store and online tea sales from Monday, June 29 through July 4 to Namvets (National Association of Minority Veterans),an organization dedicated toimproving the lives of minority veteran communities across the US by providing housing, counseling and employment programs.

While all tea sales will support the organization, Chado has also released two timely new summer tea blends in honor of July 4th and our brave minority vets: Red, White & Blue Blend (available in-store).

A fragrant, herbal white tea with hibiscus, cornflower, rose hips, goji, lychee and cabernet flavor. And theres the Boston Tea Party (available in-store oronline,) a blend of two light black teas perfect for summer: champagne ceylon and Indian black tea.

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Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee opened their latest concept, Pasta|Bar, for dine-in consumption only this week in Encino. Following coronavirus physical distancing guidance for dine-in restaurants, Pasta|Bar offers a nightly tasting menu with eight counter spaces per seating. Similar to their other concepts, the Lees will make everything from scratch and create dishes inspired by Italys most beloved regions and traditions, while adding their own unique pasta perspective.

After months indoors, Southern Californians are officially swinging into summer by hitting the beaches and the Santa Monica pier, which reopened this week. To celebrate the start of the season Maha Organic Hard Seltzeris giving away the ultimate day at the beach.

Simply sign up atMovewithMaha.comand stop by theJoyride van sponsored by Maha on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday June 28 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. to pick up your complimentary beach rental and other giveaways including masks and beach bags. From beach cruisers to sports equipment like frisbees and spike ball, Maha is hooking up Angelenos with some much-needed fun in the sun. After working up a thirst, locals 21+ can cool down with a Maha hard seltzer at bars nearby including Chez Jay, Craftsman and Rustys Surf Ranch.

Smores Shake (Courtesy Slaters 50/50)

Burgers, bacon, and beer Slaters 50/50, the popular burger concept known for its over-the-top, slaterized menu items and 50/50 burger patty made with 50 percent ground bacon and 50 percent ground beef, has officially opened its first Santa Clarita Valley location at Valencia Town Center. The restaurant will be led by franchise owner and operator, Homayoun Daryani, who has also owned Persia Lounge and Restaurant in Valencia for 16 years.

The newest Slaters 50/50 outpost is an expansive 8,000-square-foot space that includes an indoor dining room, three patios and 40 different self-serve beer taps from local Santa Clarita-based breweries. The restaurant also features a shake and espresso bar that opens directly into Valencia Town Center.

Gelateria Uli is gearing up for the 4th of July and taking pre-orders now for three summertime frozen pies featuring three gelato flavors, topped with vegan caramel and sprinkled with your favorite Speculoos cookie crumbs. Ulis signature waffle cones are the pie crust. Flavors include Summertime Lemonade Stand with lemon sorbet (vegan), Caramel Corn with sweet white corn gelato (dairy-based) and Peach Cobbler with peach sorbet (vegan.)

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WATCH NOW: GOP's voice on race: S.C.'s Tim Scott becomes a leading GOP Senate figure

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., accompanied by Republican senatorsspeaks at a news conference to announce a Republican police reformbill on Capitol Hill in Washington.

President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Tim Scott speak during ameeting on opportunity zones in the Cabinet Room of the White Housein Washington.

WASHINGTON When he first ran for office in 1994, they scrawled the N-word on his lawn signs. By the time he came to Congress, he had to unplug the phone lines because callers brought the staff to tears. Even after he became a U.S. senator, the Capitol quickly became just another place where he would be stopped by the police.

Initially reluctant to focus on race, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is now a leading Republican voice, teaching his party what it's like to be a Black man in America when the police lights are flashing in the rear-view mirror.

He has been pulled over by law enforcement "more than 18 times," Scott said in an interview with The Associated Press.

"I'm thinking to myself how blessed and lucky I am to have 18 different encounters and to have walked away from each encounter."

As the only Black Republican in the Senate, Scott's role is heavy with a certain weight. He led the task force of GOP senators drafting the Justice Act, a package of law enforcement changes. In the role, he has had a historic opportunity to speak to Republicans about race as a conservative, a Christian and a Southerner from the state where the Civil War began.

He rejects the concept of systemic racism, which puts him at odds with many Black Democrats who demand a broader police overhaul than his proposed bill. Instead, he places his faith where he says he has seen the change, in people's hearts. He shares his experience as a Black American in the 21st century, including this year when he was pulled over for failing to signal early enough for a lane change or, as he called it, stopped for "driving while Black."

"I just can't imagine the pressure he must be under, though, as the only African American Republican," Rep. Karen Bass, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said in an interview.

"That he has to sit there with those senators and go through his experiences and hope that they have some measure of empathy," said Bass, who is leading Democrats' policing bill and working with Scott, whom she has known for years.

Some will say it's hard to find any good news amid all the problems associated with the coronavirus emergency. Not so.

"It's exhausting," she said. "Racism is exhausting."

As massive demonstrations over the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minnesota spilled into a worldwide reckoning over police tactics and racial injustice, Scott quietly approached Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the GOP senators' weekly private luncheon.

Scott whispered in McConnell's ear that he wanted a seat at the table drafting legislation.

"I'm the guy that actually has the experience," he told McConnell. The leader agreed.

Broaching law enforcement changes is a new priority for the GOP, which proudly calls itself the party of Lincoln but has wrestled with race in the modern era, becoming more aligned with the "law and order" approach now embraced by President Donald Trump than a civil rights platform.

"He's been working for this moment his whole life," said House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

Scott's family the grandfather who picked cotton as a child and grandmother who cleaned homes, and his own parents who separated when he was young, his father in the military, his mother working double shifts as a nursing assistant to provide for him and his brother taught him to stay steady amid hardship. He acknowledges in his memoir that he almost flunked his freshman year of high school, before going on to become senior class president and attend college.

He is among a generation of Capitol Hill Republicans along with McCarthy and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., both of whom he counts as friends who came of age during the Reagan years, carrying a conservative's belief in the wellspring of opportunity awaiting hard work. Elected to the House on the 2010 Tea Party wave, Scott was tapped for a vacant Senate seat in 2012 and went on to win it outright in 2014.

"He found his political legs and political wings at a unique time in this country," said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist in South Carolina. "He was able to tap into something that was not known, so he made the unknown known, a Black Republican."

And yet, Scott can speak with authenticity about experiences of racism that transcend party. "I am going to be black for the rest of my life," he writes in his biography.

With the 2014 Missouri death of Michael Brown, and the 2015 South Carolina killing of Walter Scott, no relation, he wrote, "It was becoming harder and harder not to speak out."

What started as a series of Senate speeches about his experiences has led to this defining moment, drafting legislation at a time of history.

"He's been able to diversify the conversation in America about the African American community ... and how we fit into this larger pulse of what we call America," said Stephen Gilchrist, the chairman and CEO of the South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce. "And yeah, that does draw criticism because, in many respects, it does not toe the line."

If anything, Scott objects not to those in his party learning the toll of racism, but critics from the left who question his policy decisions as a Black man. He publicly spoke out against Trump's 2017 comments of fine people on "both sides" of the neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has since blocked some of the president's judicial nominees over their views. He notes there are only two Black Democratic senators.

During an interview at his Washington office, Scott explained that he believes there's value in having the person who has "gone through the pain and the misery" of bias writing the policing bills that could become law.

"Esther 4:14 says, 'For such a time as this,'" he told the AP.

"I think it is important that, in the history of eternity, that I had the good fortune of being born in the place where the Civil War started, being elected in the seat that Strom Thurmond used to hold, to be in a position to have this serious conversation that confronts racial outcomes in this nation," he said.

"I think it's a blessing from God."

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Many of us look forward to sinking our teeth into fresh tomatoes or lettuce from our gardens. But there are lots of edible plants around us that most of us either haven't noticed or never thought of eating.

Julie Walker thinks we should. She's the owner and program director of Full Circle Adventures, a company that offers edible plant walks in Calgary parks. She has run foraging outings for local chefs and landowners, and is now involved in wild food gardening.

As a hiking guide and outdoor educator, Walker noticed that people enjoyed the natural landscapes but knew very little about the greenery around them. Many had "no appreciation" of the value of nature "until we start talking about food," she said.

After an edible plant walk, "what people experience is this greater sense of wow about nature," Walker said. "There's this human history connected with this."

That history includes the local Indigenous people, who developed a deep knowledge of and relationship with edible and medicinal plants over thousands of years, as well as European settlers, who brought many edible plants with them.

Walker's favourite edible plants include wild versions of onions, chives and mint, along with fireweed, a native plant that she says you can eat like asparagus steamed, boiled or in omelettes.

At some point in the past, all humans relied on foraging for food, said Katelyn Landry, creative director of Forij Thrills in London, Ont., which puts on events involving food foraged in urban backyards. "There's just this whole other world that needs to be rediscovered," she said. "It brings a lot of joy and fulfillment and excitement."

Landry's events have included a tea party where the tea was made with cedar and rose petals, as well as workshops where chocolate was infused with wild violets and dandelion seeds were used as sprinkles to decorate cakes.

"There are some extremely delicious plants that we are completely oblivious to literally growing outside of our doorsteps," she said. Seeing the clovers, dandelions and violets in your lawn as food instead of weeds makes people less inclined to litter or use pesticides, Landry said. "We're going to be more likely to take care of the nature around us."

Steve Leckman is director of Coyote Programs in Montreal, which offers nature connection programs, including foraging workshops. Some of the wild foods he recommends include dandelion and burdock plants brought over by Europeans that are now considered weeds.

Leckman is also fond of cattail, which has edible roots, shoots and pollen. "Any time of year, there's always something delicious about it," he said.

While some edible wild plants risk being overharvested if too many people forage for them, Leckman said that by picking plants like garlic mustard, "you'll be doing diversity in the forest a favour." (I can tell you from personal experience that garlic mustard makes delicious pesto.)

Some wild plants have toxic lookalikes, andthe differences may be tricky to learn. Leckman recommends getting to know just three plants at a time and getting to know them well.

The risk of picking toxic plants and concerns about overharvesting can be avoided through the approach Walker recommends: growing your own edible plant gardens and wild food forests.

Compared to traditional vegetables, they have a longer season and are easier to grow, since they're adapted to the local climate. "It actually creates a food experience from April to September," she said.

Walker said such gardens and forests also create habitat and a healthy food chain for local wildlife, including insects.

"We're feeding nature and we're feeding ourselves," she said.

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In response to Elizabeth Chiu's article last week on turning reclaimed fishing gear into plastic timber, Chris Shibata of Waterloo, Ont., had this to say:

"I hate to break the 'bad news' about plastic wood from fishing gear, but back in the dark ages (mid '70s), my elder daughter received a birthday gift from her grandparents in Japan. The big box that arrived contained a dollhouse built out of plastic 'wood' made from fishing gear salvaged from the waters around Japan. It looked just like wood, right down to the wood grain, colour and finish, and proved indestructible despite years of very rough handling by both our daughters and their friends. I've often wondered why this lumber never seemed to catch on but perhaps now its time has come."

The fact that the world is warming has compelled some people to take drastic and in some cases ingenious steps to protect our most precious natural resources. Take the Presena glacier in the Italian Alps, which has lost more than 30 per cent of its mass since 1993. A little over a decade ago, conservationists launched an ambitious gambit after ski season was over, they would cover a large chunk of the glacier with white tarps to block the sun's rays. In 2008, they managed to blanket 30,000 square metres. This year, it's 100,000 square metres. The organizers of this annual undertaking say these measures reduce melting during summer.

Lockdowns related to the coronavirus pandemic are affecting the environment. One example is that as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, many governments particularly in Brazil and Indonesia are having difficulty dealing with illegal deforestation and forest fires. All of this smoke, in turn, is exacerbating respiratory illnesses and making people more susceptible to COVID-19, according to one U.S. public health expert.

This story is part of World on Fire, a five-part CBC podcast that takes us to the front lines of out-of-control wildfires in Canada, Australia and California. Listen to it here.

When a wildfire hit WatertonLakes National Park in Alberta in 2017, some conservationists wondered what would become of the picturesque mountain ecosystem. The fire incinerated more than 19,000 hectares of forest and grassland nearly 40 per cent of the park.

"Some of us were wondering, 'Gosh, what is going to happen here?'" said Kim Pearson, a Parks Canada ecosystem scientist in Waterton.

It all began when lightning from an intense storm on Aug. 30, 2017, struck Kenow Mountain in B.C., igniting the fire close to the park boundary. The fire moved north at a staggering speed, spreading through the grasslands along the park's entrance road. While the townsite was saved, park buildings, bridges and trails were destroyed. The flames did not subside until the snow fell.

Large swaths of forest were left smouldering and black. The landscape had evolved with fire, but Pearson said that in three centuries, it had never experienced one this large.

"The Kenow wildfire was a lot larger than what's come before," she said. "It's not uncommon for there to be fires of that size in this ecosystem, but what was unique about it is that it moved really fast, it moved at night and the behaviour of that fire was [of] a really high intensity."

Tree cover over much of the park was destroyed. While some animals died, many survived even thrived in the post-fire ecosystem. Trail cameras throughout the park captured bears and cougars on the move in the days following the fire.

Two years later, the park has undergone extreme ecological changes. Without a dense forest canopy to block the sun, plants and flowers quickly returned, allowing new life to take hold.

Elk, bear and deer are still plentiful and smaller mammals are thriving in the rich new growth. Visitors to the park will see verdant, lush vistas surrounding the park's glacial lakes.

"Spectacular fields of wildflowers on mountain slopes that's been one of the most surprising parts of the post-fire environment," Pearson said, pointing across a bubbling creek to a slope covered in large tufts of grass.

"I think a lot of people would be hard-pressed to know that a fire had happened here just a couple years ago and stripped it of all the living vegetation."

Researchers within the park continue to monitor the ecological changes. It may take years to fully understand how Waterton's habitat has been altered. But there is no doubt the park is teeming with life. Destruction has given way to renewal.

"It might take a little while, but if you look closely, there are a lot of positive things happening. There is still life in those areas. It's not a dead area," Pearson said.

"Nature knows what to do. It comes back, and it's fascinating."

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(CNN) You will remember the tea party in Boston from 1773, when American revolutionaries famously walked the British, throwing boxes of tea in the port of Boston.

New spitting in the right way to make a cup has become a similar international incident, with the ambassadors of the United Kingdom and the United States sticking their spoons.

It all started in early May when an American TikTok user named Michelle from North Carolina stirred up a fierce twist on social media platforms with his controversial guide to making hot tea.

It included a microwave and a dishonest mix of milk, lemonade powder, cinnamon, Tang soft drink, industrial quantities of sugar, and an innocent tea that certainly deserved better things in life.

This was too much for British consumers, who are proud of their national drink with homes, with leaves imported mainly from Kenya, India and Malawi. The twins topics in the furious outpouring of comments were war crime and diabetes.

The fifth TikTok columnist has already garnered over five million likes for her efforts, but she has also sparked righteous anger in a nation close to the boiling point and with a lot of time in her hands.

Thats what Damn Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to the United States in Washington, called for in the military.

Yes, thats right, in a video released Monday, she got the boys from the British Army, Navy and Air Force to demonstrate how to make tea in a patriotic and popcorn way. There was even a nod to how to hold high tea at high altitude.

Pierce had gathered his forces behind him, but when Woody Johnson, the US ambassador to the United Kingdom, joined on Wednesday, he acted like Dirty Harry and went solo.

His strategy was smart. It continued after Britains weakness: coffee. When the UK is weak on continental-style caffeine consumption, how can it go wrong?

The problem with this Clint Eastwood cappuccino is that it makes what looks like an absolutely awful cup of coffee.

He commits the main sin in the use of instant coffee, raising hacks to any connoisseur faster than hot water dissolves dried granulated granules.

As people around the world have increased their gourmet emissions during the blockade, with their starter pots and AeroPress cold boils, there can only be one message for Johnson. Do better.

There are still no video responses from Rafaele Trombeta, Italys ambassador to the UK since 2018, and Armando Varicchio, Italys ambassador to the United States for the past four years.

Nor were there any comments on TikTok tea from Liu Xiaoming, Chinas ambassador to Britain, or Josefat Karanja and Gaytri I. Kumar, the high commissioners of Kenya and India in Britain, respectively.

Is the time for silence over?

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COVERSTORY

Zohra Shah, a young girl who was just eight years old, should have been playing in her garden, having a tea party for her dolls and running around with her friends and family. Unfortunately, however, she was employed as a slave-like domestic worker. Instead of having access to education, she was kept indoors, burdened with household chores, too heavy for her frail shoulders. She was brutally tortured - and killed - by her employers after she accidentally opened a birdcage, freeing the birds. Zohra was brought to the hospital after being beaten to an inch of her life, but succumbed to her injuries.

Her employers later admitted to hitting Zohra for releasing their parrots. To these cruel people, their parrots were more valuable than a human life. Zohra had no intention of harming anyone and causing an issue; yet, her life, education and childhood were ruthlessly snatched from her.

Instead of working, she should have been in school, getting an education and building a future for herself, but that was not to be: she is now gone and can never come back. This couple misused their power by abusing Zohra in a way which shocked our nation to its core. No one deserves to die in such a horrible way, especially a child who made an honest mistake! The people who work for you are there to make your life easier and to help you out. They are human beings and have rights. They deserve to be treated with kindness, consideration and respect!

A huge number of children is employed as domestic workers. Children of all ages, from as young as six to seven years of age to older teens, are hired as domestic servants. They are deprived of their right to education, and exposed to horrors like physical and mental abuse. The state has failed in its duty to protect them.

Child labour deprives children of their childhood, their future potential and dignity! Statistics show that in Pakistan, children between the age of ten to 14 are forced to work; of these, 61 percent are boys and 88 percent come from rural areas. Child labour is not acceptable under any circumstances. Child abuse is even worse, and killing an innocent human is completely and utterly unacceptable. This is not how we want our country to be perceived. We need change; we need justice and, most importantly, we need to stand together as a nation and educate ourselves in order to take action. As humans who care about our future, we should not remain silent and this cruelty should not be ignored.

It is sad that people feel like they are superior to others based on economic status, and that is completely immoral. The small population of Pakistani citizens with power, money and influence should be educating other children, feeding the homeless and donating to a good cause instead of murdering, torturing and performing other horrific acts upon those under their power. We all are human beings and economic status doesnt define us. Our society is becoming so egotistical that people feel like the only way to take action is with violence.

If you want to help us bring a change, this is the time to start now. Donating a small amount of money, community service and volunteering can really help. Our NGO, Educating our Future, works to bring awareness about the importance of education, because we believe that change can only be brought through education. Education alone can empower our citizens, and bring about the change we all want to see.

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Us talked to Alesha Faraz to learn more about the NGO, Educating our Future

Tell us about yourself and your organisation. What are your key achievements? How do you manage it, especially during this pandemic?

We started this organisation with the hope to educate underprivileged children all over Karachi. We are passionate about education, and feel it is a great privilege to be able to get a good education. So, we decided that every child deserves to be educated. Since starting this organisation in February, we have come quite a long way. Together we planned a fundraiser on the 16th of February. Many people showed up to support us and all in all it was a very successful event. Through this fundraiser, we managed to raise eight lakh rupees.

This money was used to buy necessities and school supplies for a conjoining orphanage and school. We supplied the orphanage with basic furniture, books, prayer mats, copies of Quran, cleaning supplies, mattresses, blankets and hygiene supplies.

For the school, we bought all the tools they needed to teach their children with ease such as notebooks, pencils, paper, books, etc. We also went to the school and gave a talk on the importance of hygiene. As we cant go to school, we have started doing a lot more online. We are in touch with the lady who is in charge there and we have made more goals for ourselves to raise money and awareness for them. We have submitted articles to many different places and have come up with different posts for our Instagram account about ongoing issues, so we can educate our audience. Using this quarantine time wisely, we have decided to write a book on education and its importance. These are our key accomplishments and we have planned to do a lot more in the upcoming future.

How do you people plan to support children? Tell us about your action plan.

Supporting a large number of children is not an easy task, but it is our goal to do so. We want to make education fun for the kids. We plan on hosting a lot more events in the future and use that money to improve the quality of education and supply the school with whatever they need to do that. Before the pandemic, we went to the school every weekend. We taught the children and played with them. We can organise activities for them and educate them on the real issues in the world. Along with that we will also help the teachers out with work. We are also planning to have more drives for collecting books, clothes and other necessities for the children. If the children ever need to talk or need advice with anything, we are always there for them to help out. As we want to Educate Our Future we will do anything and everything in our power to help these kids and make their lives easier along with providing them with education.

People usually think teenagers are carefree and apathetic when it comes to bad things happening in society! But, of course, this is not true! They also get affected. How do you guys feel? What encouraged you to step forward and start an NGO to serve this great cause?

We feel privileged because we study in one of the best schools in the country, and we want to give back. Just the thought of the kids on the streets being deprived of basic schooling makes us feel bad. This motivates us to work and help them get an education. Rich or poor, everyone should be given the opportunity to make something of themselves. We want to see a change in our country, and we want to help bring it. We want to see children becoming successful! In short, we want to make the world a better place. Together we can accomplish goals, but it wont happen without education.

Spreading awareness is a very important thing to do, so what are you doing about this issue?

We have done different things to spread awareness. For example, we have made an Instagram account where we post and update our followers about our NGO and issues related to children, like the tragic death of Zohra Shah. We also submit our articles to magazines and newspapers. Weve also been interviewed by Geo News about our fundraiser and about our NGO which encouraged more people to donate after it got published. We are trying our best to spread awareness in different ways so that we can reach out to people all over our country and everyone can see how the need to rise up and support others.

Who supports the NGO?

We are students of Karachi American School. We started our NGO because we believe education can greatly impact Pakistans progress, and we really want to try to improve the system. We are the future of Pakistan and we are very proud to call ourselves Pakistanis! We will fight to bring a change in our country. We hold fundraisers and events to support our NGO.

A word about your parents role?

Our parents have helped us through out, and without them it would have been very hard to manage everything. If we dont understand something, they guide us. We couldnt have renovated the orphanage without them. They played a major role in our NGO and we are extremely lucky to have parents like ours who encourage us to be better and stronger people. They are involved with other charities and orphanages and so they are in a better position to guide us. We appreciate them, and their help enormously.

Right now, social media is one of the biggest platforms where NGOs work gets recognition and we have seen that people do support good causes! In your case, how is the response? And tell us about the activities (donation drives, live interviews, etc.) you do on your social media to engage people. And what challenges do you face?

Some activities we have organised are book and clothes drives, an interview, etc. For our book and clothes drives, we put up posts on our Instagram, placed collection boxes in school and at our fundraiser. People sent books and clothes to our houses. We had shirts made which had Educate printed on them, and we sold over fifty shirts. All the money went to the orphanage and school that our NGO supports. On our social media, we started posting pictures of the orphanage and school. We cant go to the school anymore due to Covid 19, so that is a challenge.

Then, we started researching more about the lack of education and other issues being faced by our nation. We were shocked to learn that about 55 million children in Pakistan are unable to read or write. After researching, we started posting facts, so people could read them and realise whats going on. Another big challenge we really faced was we didnt have a big following, so our posts were not getting shared. We have started small, but we are determined to grow.

You can contact

[emailprotected] or go to their Instagram page @Educatingourfuture_ to donate and ask questions.

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