Miss Pakistan Beauty queen to quench the thirst of Millions in Afghanistan
Pakistan Monday, June 30th, 2008 Beauty queen strikes deal which aims to bring clean drinking water to millions
PAKISTAN’S reigning Miss World, Natasha Paracha, has launched a project to bring clean drinking water to millions of Afghans.
The 23-year-old Miss Paracha, who works for the United Nation’s International Renewable Energy Organisation (IREO) in New York, said her agency had struck a deal with a clean water company in Afghanistan.
“This company has a chemical which they put in the water and within 48 hours the water is drinkable,” Natasha said, adding the initiative would provide safe drinking water to a large number of Afghans.
Natasha runs a non-profit organisation, Vision of Development, which works for the welfare of children and women in rural areas of Pakistan.
Planning to extend her work across the border, Natasha said Afghanistan needed a lot of help from the global community, particularly neighbouring countries.
On Saturday, Natasha led a silent auction in Manhattan to raise money for charity work in Afghanistan. “My goal is to work towards women’s issues and children,” she said.
Natasha is also working on an Afghan pageant.
“It is going to take some time as a lot of issues are involved. But it will provide a platform for Afghan women to stand up for what they believe should be the role model for their society,” the beauty queen said.
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on Jun 30 2008. Filed under