Sapan News qualifies for NewsMatch! Help us reach our goal by year-end

Posted on November 27, 2024 by beenasarwar

Hello everyone! We are excited that Sapan News qualified for  NewsMatch for the second year running. This is a collaborative fundraiser run by the Institute for Nonprofit News, a professional journalists’ body to which only half the media outlets that apply get accepted. The initiative supports 475 independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan newsrooms dedicated to public service like Sapan News. 

Until December 31, 2024, NewsMatch will match every dollar donated to Sapan News, up to $15,000. That means all donations made by year end will go twice as far. ‘

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This will enable us to continue the Sapan News mission of furthering the narrative of peace, dialogue, and regionalism, to provide nonpartisan journalism with context and nuance, with voices from the community and on the ground who go into the why and how beyond the headlines.

Some Sapan News features and what we stand for
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‘Life Goes on: Women Dead in Karachi Stampede’

Posted on September 15, 2009 by beenasarwar
Poverty and desperation coupled with private charity being distributed in a chaotic manner led to nearly 20 women and girls being killed in a stampede in Old Karachi on Sept 14. The Dawn aptly headlined its report ‘Crushed by poverty’. See also Shahid Husain’s report in The News ‘Food security is a fundamental human right’.

Free flour was being distributed in a busy neighbourhood when the stampede happened [AFP]
Free flour was being distributed in a busy neighbourhood when the stampede happened [AFP]

Below, temporal’s poem for the women who died, posted in Baithak:
‘Life Goes on: Women Dead in Karachi Stampede’
is nay kiya yeh
nahiN
oos nay kiya yeh
aisa nahiN kerna chahiyay thaa
waisa nahiN kerna chahiyay thaa

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