Growing Green: IBA Karachi Students and Our Youngest Learners Plant Something That Lasts

HARIYALI · ہریالی · Trees, green spaces, and the young people who look after them

On Monday 16 November 2026, Surraya School System in Murad Memon Goth will welcome a team of BS Social Sciences students from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi for Growing Green, a plantation workshop with our junior section.

The team designed Growing Green themselves. They will bring the seedlings, soil and containers, and with their gardener they will help the junior section — more than 240 young learners — plant a seedling of their own, working in pairs.

The planting is only the beginning. In the days that follow, each pair will water and check their plant every day with their teacher. Then the IBA team will return to see how the plants, and the children, have grown.

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Why it matters

For many of our children, this will be the first time they care for something living and watch it grow because of them. Responsibility, patience and teamwork cannot be copied from a blackboard. A child learns them with a watering mug in hand.

Part of HARIYALI

Growing Green sits within HARIYALI (ہریالی), the Foundation’s programme for trees, green spaces, and the young people who look after them. Karachi loses shade faster than it plants it, and the neighbourhoods we work in have the least of it. HARIYALI plants where people actually live, and trains young eco-leaders to keep what is planted alive. More than 400 trees have been planted so far in Shah Faisal Town and Murad Memon Goth.

Two generations, one bond

When university students give their morning to children in a completely free school, both learn something. That is what TAALUQ means: a bond between those who can give and those who need.

We will share photographs, the children’s progress and the follow-up visit here.

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