Abdulrahman Rafiq and Ahmad Shabbar
MoU signing ceremony held on 16th January 2020 at the Paksef office. Sitting from left to right: Mr Abdulrahman Rafiq, Executive Director & Founder Paksef and C.E.O. inspurate; Mr Ahmad Shabbar, C.E.O. and Founder GarbageCAN (Pvt) Ltd.

16 January 2020: The Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation (Paksef) has joined hands with GarbageCAN (Pvt) Ltd that is a Pakistan based sustainable waste management company.

Through this partnership Paksef will extended fiscal sponsorship and support GarbageCAN (Pvt) Ltd’s social benefit and community education outreach initiatives.

Reflecting upon the partnership, Executive Director Abdulrahman Rafiq stated, “Paksef is driven towards promoting a sustainable ecosystem and fostering a culture of renewability of resources within the private and public sectors…through grassroots initiatives like this we intend to foster scientific and innovative thought throughout Pakistan.”

Mr Ahmad Shabbar, C.E.O. GarbageCAN also stated: “Building awareness is key to creating a paradigm shift that will impact our surroundings. It may be gradual, but there is no easy or quick way to go about it. At GarbageCAN we are in for the long haul. While we are primarily a solution provider for responsible waste management, we want to bring about a behavioural shift in Pakistan towards a more sustainable culture. Our mission is to make recycling second nature in Pakistan. Hence, the A in our A.R.C. stands for ‘Awareness’ and the R for ‘Recycling’ follows it.”

Through GarbageCAN’s project dubbed “Paak Saaf” (پاک صاف), we at Paksef intend to support GarbageCAN through fiscal sponsorship by reaching out to students and make them aware of the issues related to waste management and the environment as well as their sustainable solutions. We we will support GarbageCAN in initiating awareness campaigns and workshops at Karachi government and private schools.

To achieve our objectives we will need support from our friends and global partners and allies – working towards a better future that lies in Sustainability.

Paksef or the Pakistan Science and Engineering Foundation is a California non-profit orgianizaton registered under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Review code