Harvard Pakistani Students are collecting funds but University declines to answer.
The Harvard College Pakistani Students have become the frontrunners in the cause of collecting money for flood victims in the recent natural devastation that the country is seeing.
Students are opting for different dining halls & social gatherings in order to raise voices for their homeland.
The Harvard College Pakistan Student Association (HCPSA) was founded back in 2011. The club members are now actively heading towards making an actual difference by not only spreading the donation by asking for flyers but even inviting the members of other community heads too to invest in the cause.
The leaders of many groups have responded that there’s almost no contribution from the administration of one of the world’s top universities.
“We have heard nothing from the administrations ever since we started this fundraiser campaign. It is both disheartening & disillusioning on so many fronts”, said Asmer Asrar, one of the HCPSA members.
As Harvard Pakistani Students collecting funds, the students have even sent personal emails to the deans of the college’s 12 upper-class houses but have not received any positive response.
Only 2 deans had responded by agreeing to send the fundraiser to the students through email addresses, and 7 of them declined the request in the first place.
“It is nothing but double standards of Harvard. Whenever there’s something happening in Ukraine or the other Western world, everyone’s on their feet, and everyone’s campaigning just because it aligns with Western & Harvard interests. But no one bats an eye if something more disastrous is happening in the third-world country or rather a coloured country”, added Safi, another HCPSA member.
“These double standards exist in the Harvard Community. We people aren’t born to rot. That’s not what we want for our people, & that’s the idea that we’ve been given,” he added.
The spokesperson of Harvard College, Jason A. Newton, however, has declined to respond.
