On February 11th, 2021, Rotary Club Karachi - New Central announced to join hands with HF and take up the plantation of forest number 4 of Denso Hall Rahguzar. The team will be responsible for arranging the plants. An event is being planned to be held on the 21st of February where the plantation drive will be carried out.
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On February 8th, 2021, a site meeting was held at Denso Hall Rahguzar regarding the encroachments of the Quetta Wala Building. The meeting was joined by the Director of Evacuee Trust Property Board Mr. Javed Shaikh, inspector Shahid Ali, HF representative Ar. Ashfaq and HF project manager Naheem Hussain Shah. It was discussed and decided after the site visit that ETP (Evacuee Trust Property Board) will take notice of the removal of the encroachment on the rooftop of the Quetta Wala Building.
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On February 8th, 2021, The garbage from Forest 4 of the first segment of Denso Hall Rahguzar was removed by DMC (District Municipal Corporation). The space will be used to implement planting of the plants and greenery, intended to transform the site into an eco-urban enclave.
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After a corporate career, he devoted his time to chronicling the history of Sindh Province and preserving its cultural heritage. He died from complications of Covid-19.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/obituaries/suhail-zaheer-lari-dead-coronavirus.html
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On January 16th, 2021, HF held a live webinar event on Zoom with Ar. Yasmeen Lari hosted by HF’s Esha Sikander.
The webinar was centered around Q&A, comments, suggestions, and thoughts on the Trial Tutorials that were released on HF’s Zero Carbon Channel last month. Ar. Yasmeen Lari herself addressed the questions and queries which allowed for some interesting dialogue to take place.
The 40-minute Q&A-based event garnered over 41 participants by the end of the session, including participants from Pakistan, American, Portugal, India, Bangladesh, UAE, Australia, Japan, UK, Iraq, Malaysia, and more.
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On January 6th 2021, The Mariott Road shopkeepers have generously collaborated with HF’s efforts in restoring the Heritage Facades. The wall face-off has begun at Quetta Wala building and the shop keeps are voluntarily removing the shutters from the facade, allowing for site work to commence with ease.
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On January 5th, 2021, Heritage Foundation of Pakistan (HF) installed the three-meter pillar walls at Denso Hall Rahgzar for the electric work that is to be carried out by K.E. Additionally HF got the level surveys done to demarcate the levels for the pavement that is to be laid out.
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On January 3rd, 2021, the first sample of Boulder has been installed at Denso Hall Rahguzar. The boulders are being carved out of Makli Stone at Zero Carbon Cultural Centre (ZC3).
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On January 2nd, 2021, KMC’s anti-encroachment team began the work on site. The team has removed the tiled floor of the make-shift Masjid that spills over the street. Some steps of shops that were encroaching the footpath have also been removed. The removal is being done to make the footpath more walkable as well as to make the pavement installation process easier.
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On 31st December 2020, HF finished laying out the first segment of terracotta pavement at Denso Hall - the first segment of the Red Trail that will connect the historic Denso Hall with Kharadar Chowk and the Custom House.
The radial pavement design centralizes around the 12” dia natural ceramic plaques carrying heritage images that are specially fabricated to dot the trail with reminders of Karachi’s glorious past. The tiles are hand-made in Makli by HF’s Barefoot Entrepreneur women.
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