A peace and cultural event was organized on 13th Oct 2015 at Sukkur Press Club by SPO, under ‘Citizen First’ project funded by Oxfam Novib. A large number of political personalities along with senior district officials from Sukkur, Khairpur, Larkana & Shikarpur attended the event. The speakers encouraged the efforts of SPO in promoting the cultural traditions of Sindh. The speakers also emphasized on using culture as a toll for promoting peace, harmony and development in the society.
The purpose of peace & Cultural festival was:
- To provide joint platform to people across religious, sectarian, cultural and ethnic groups for social and cultural interaction.
- To provide opportunity to people across different identities; religious, sectarian, cultural or ethnic including men, women, persons with disabilities and transgender for joint celbrations through common cultural practices such music, theatre productions, poetry, child performances, traditional story telling etc.
- To promote common values among people across different identities including men, women, youth persons with disabilities and transgender through positive cultural practices and inheritance.