Short Responses Required for April Volume of SEPLAA News 2010

Is idealism dead in Pakistan? 

What good can idealism bring us in this complicated modern world? 

Your response may be added in our April Volume of SEPLAA News.

Please give comments below. The best comments will be published in the April Volume of the quarterly SEPLAA News.

SEPLAA Social Reform Proposal Competition, March 2010

Do you want your proposals for social change heard  by the appropriate government quarters? 

Do you feel you have ideas to share and no platform to share them from?

We invite your proposals for social reform in point form (maximum 10 points)  for our March SEPLAA Social Reform Proposal Competition, 2010. 

Please send us your proposals along with a copy of your cv, latest by 30th March, 2010, at info@seplaa.com.

The most useful and workable proposals will enter our April volume of SEPLAA News. 

For further questions please write to the SEPLAA Editorial Team at info@seplaa.com. 

Happy brain storming!

SEPLAA March Article Competition!

As an initiative to involve more and more people to think about their living conditions in Pakistan so that they can contribute positively towards much needed reforms, we are starting a quarterly article writing competition.

 Please submit your articles of around 250 words at info@seplaa.com and get published with SEPLAA! Our publications are going to be circulated in at least 4 continents! Hurry now! 

Rules of the competition:

1. The article must be of 250-300 words.

2. The piece must be written about anything concerning your health, environment, legal disposition or society in general.

3. The piece may criticize present state policies but must end with recommendations on how the problem can be solved.

4 .Members of SEPLAA stand a greater chance of being published but exceptional pieces by non members of our think tank may also be published.

5. The last date for receiving entries is 30th March, 2010.

Best of luck!

SEPLAA's Seminar at SKANS School of Accountancy

SEPLAA visited the SKANS School of Accountancy on 11th March, 2010 to talk about their awareness drive 'Save a life, save a generation'.

The students demonstrated  a lot of interest and were made aware of their health options before getting married.

It was explained that thalessemia can be caused if two carriers of the disease get married. The defect is present in the genes that can be carried forward to their children eventually requiring the child to be blood transfusion dependent for life, unless the child has a risky bone marrow transplant.

One student asked, ' If I smoke a lot, as in be a chain smoker, can I get thalessemia?'

To which the speaker replied, ' No, you can probably have lung cancer but not thalessemia.'
The student was visibly relieved to know this.