Houston-Karachi

Welcome

The Houston Karachi Sister City Association (HKSCA) is an inclusive organization, whose sole focus is mission is to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, & cooperation — one individual, one community at a time.

The principal objective of the HKSCA is to increase cultural and educational exchange to improve understanding and promote interaction between the people of Houston and Karachi. The association will also help build bridges of friendship and commerce between these two vital centers of culture and finances. By supporting individual and civic exchanges that foster better understanding and appreciation between citizens of the two cities, HKSCA will develop ongoing projects and events to promote cultural and people exchanges as well as economic development opportunities.

Host Families Needed - US Department of State Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program

Host Families are urgently needed for teenage exchange students for the upcoming school year. There are 2 young men from Pakistan that are in need of a host family. They won a scholarship from the Department of State to come and study in a local high school in the USA for a year. The teens speak English, are covered by insurance and have spending money for personal expenses. Host families/parents provide a bed, meals, as well as friendship, and a genuine desire to share the American way of life.

Department of State families are diverse! Two-parent families- with or without children-, single parents or adults, and retired couples all make wonderful host families. The teens hope to arrive this August to attend local high schools.

We need a host family as soon possible or the students will not be able to come. These are some of Pakistan brightest young people! So let’s not disappoint them.

Contact Muhammed Sheikh for more information!

MUHAMMAD SHEIKH
President HKSCA
281-948-1840
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Listen to the NPR Audio Report on Houston-Karachi Sister City Partnership

Karachi's Mayor Mustafa Kamal signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mayor Bill White that declares Pakistan's largest city as a sister city to Houston. Council member M.J. Khan helped pave the way for the memorandum.

Houston-Karachi Sister City Relationship Born

HOUSTON (March 3, 2009) – The Honorable Mayors Bill White (Houston) and Syed Mustafa Kamal (Karachi) signed a “Sister Cities Agreement” at the City Hall in Houston on Tuesday – March 03, 2009. An evening before this signing, the Houston-Karachi Sister Association under the leadership of Haroon Shaikh, CPA, hosted a dinner for the distinguished guests and dignitaries of the Greater Houston Region at the beautiful Wortham Center in Downtown Houston.

Karachi, Pakistan joins Houston’s Sister City Network

HOUSTON (February 24, 2009) – The Honorable Syed Mustafa Kamal, Mayor of Karachi, will visit Houston to sign a sister cities agreement with Mayor Bill White on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. City Council approved the establishment of a sister city relationship between Houston and Karachi, Pakistan, earlier this month. The Houston-Karachi Sister City Association becomes the seventeenth in a network of “citizen diplomacy” relationships for Houston, under the umbrella of Sister Cities of Houston.