Pakistan-American Society Of South Jersey

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Pakistan-American Society Of South Jersey We are an organization representing Pakistanis in the southern New Jersey area.

While our membership is open to everybody, we aim to represent Pakistanis living this area, irrespective of their ethnic, religious or political views.

🇵🇰🇺🇸 PASSJ Pakistan Day Celebration 2026 🇺🇸🇵🇰Join us on Sunday, September 13 at 5:30 PM at The Venue at Lenola, Mooresto...
08/28/2026

🇵🇰🇺🇸 PASSJ Pakistan Day Celebration 2026 🇺🇸🇵🇰

Join us on Sunday, September 13 at 5:30 PM at The Venue at Lenola, Moorestown, NJ for an evening celebrating our heritage and community with cultural programs, music, delicious food, family fun, and vendors!

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/pakistan-day-event
📧 [email protected]
🌐 pakamerican.org

Bring your family and friends and help us make it a memorable celebration! Please like, share, tag your friends, and spread the word.




🇵🇰 Happy Pakistan Independence Day! 🇵🇰As we celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14, let us remember the stru...
08/14/2026

🇵🇰 Happy Pakistan Independence Day! 🇵🇰

As we celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14, let us remember the struggles and sacrifices that gave us our homeland. Let us honor the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Allama Muhammad Iqbal by continuing to work together for a stronger and better tomorrow.

PASSJ is also excited to invite our community to PASSJ PAK Day on Sunday, September 13, 2026, at 5:30 PM at The Venue at Lenola. Join us for an evening celebrating our heritage, culture, youth, and community.

Together, we keep our heritage alive and our community strong.

Pakistan Zindabad! 🇵🇰

United in Heritage. Stronger Together.

Pakistani American Society of South Jersey (PASSJ)
pakamerican.org
[email protected]




08/14/2026

🇵🇰 Happy Pakistan Independence Day! 🇵🇰

07/26/2026

She built skyscrapers for the rich then walked away from all of it to build bamboo homes for the poorest of the poor. And the world's highest architecture honour followed her there.

Meet Yasmeen Lari Pakistan's first female architect, and one of the most quietly radical changemakers our country has ever produced.

Born around 1941, Yasmeen Lari became Pakistan's first female architect, and built a career at the intersection of design and social justice

In the 1980s and '90s, she built major projects around Karachi including the Taj Mahal Hotel (1981), the Finance and Trade Center (1989), and the Pakistan State Oil House (1991).

She was a genuine star of the architectural world. And then at the height of her success she retired, saying "I realized I was just working with rich people" and could no longer justify building for the privileged while millions lived in poverty, with limited access to housing, sanitation, and water.

What came next is the real story.

Her humanitarian turn came sharply into focus after Pakistan's devastating 2005 earthquake, when she witnessed firsthand the failures of traditional aid models and began to pioneer a philosophy she calls "Barefoot Social Architecture."

This model self-built, resilient, low-carbon housing using local materials and craft has resulted in the construction of some 40,000 refugee homes.

Since 2010 alone, she has built some 50,000 Pakistani homes for disaster victims, using traditional techniques and local materials like bamboo and mud plaster.
In 2018, she designed a fuel-efficient, smoke-free *chulah* (stove) that won a World Habitat Award because her definition of architecture includes every object that changes a woman's daily life.

Her motto?

"Low cost, zero carbon, zero waste but I would like it to be 'zero cost' as well."
On 27 April 2023, RIBA announced her as the recipient of the 2023 Royal Gold Medal architecture's equivalent of a lifetime Nobel.

RIBA president Simon Allford called her "an inspirational figure" who "moved from a large practice centred on the needs of international clients to focussing solely on humanitarian causes."

And in 2025,
Qatar Museums brought her community centre built using techniques first deployed through Heritage Foundation of Pakistan's relief efforts to the Venice Architecture Biennale.

A woman who builds bamboo shelters in flood-hit Sindh villages is now shaping global conversations about climate and design. That's Pakistan.

In a world where disaster feels permanent and rebuilding is often extractive, Lari's work insists otherwise: that resilience can be homegrown, that architecture can be a quiet form of revolution.

At Connected Pakistan, we believe that building the future doesn't always mean code and screens sometimes it means bamboo, earth, and the courage to say *enough* to comfort and start again. Yasmeen Lari chose her people over prestige. That spirit is exactly what we want the next generation of Pakistani builders, designers, and dreamers to carry forward.

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🇵🇰🇺🇸 SAVE THE DATE! 🇺🇸🇵🇰The Pakistani American Society of South Jersey (PASSJ) invites you to join us as we celebrate Pa...
07/24/2026

🇵🇰🇺🇸 SAVE THE DATE! 🇺🇸🇵🇰

The Pakistani American Society of South Jersey (PASSJ) invites you to join us as we celebrate Pakistan Day 2026 with an unforgettable evening of community, culture, and friendship!

📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026
🕠 5:30 PM onwards
📍 Moorestown Fire Hall
229 N. Lenola Road
Moorestown, NJ 08057

✨ Enjoy an evening featuring:
• Cultural Programs
• Live Music (Singer to be announced)
• Delicious Food
• Family Friendly Activities
• Vendors
• Community Fellowship

Mark your calendars and invite your family and friends. More exciting details will be announced soon!

Picnic is going well. Really nice weather here. Still time to join? Great food from Tandoor Kabab
07/04/2026

Picnic is going well. Really nice weather here. Still time to join? Great food from Tandoor Kabab

🇵🇰🇺🇸 ⏰ TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! ⏰Don’t miss out! Today is your last chance to get:✅ $1 Early Bird Tickets✅ FREE Family Adm...
07/03/2026

🇵🇰🇺🇸 ⏰ TODAY IS THE LAST DAY! ⏰

Don’t miss out! Today is your last chance to get:

✅ $1 Early Bird Tickets
✅ FREE Family Admission (up to 6 people) with a PASSJ Membership

Join us for an unforgettable Pakistani American Community Picnic on Saturday, July 4th at Red Bank Battlefield Park!

🎶 Entertainment
🪁 Kite Flying
🎯 Games & Activities
🛝 Kids Play Area
🍱 Delicious Boxed Food
🤝 Family, Friends & Community

🎟️ Get Your Tickets:
https://tinyurl.com/PassjTicket

👥 Become a PASSJ Member:
https://tinyurl.com/PassjMember

🙋 Volunteer:
https://tinyurl.com/PassjVolunteer

Come celebrate with us, support your community, and help make this a memorable day for everyone!

📢 Please like, share, and tag your family and friends so no one misses out!

Pakistani American Society of South Jersey (PASSJ)

🌟 Reminder: Early Bird Ends Today! 🌟Join us for the PASSJ Pakistani American Community Picnic on Saturday, July 4, 2026,...
07/01/2026

🌟 Reminder: Early Bird Ends Today! 🌟

Join us for the PASSJ Pakistani American Community Picnic on Saturday, July 4, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Red Bank Battlefield Park, National Park, NJ.

🎟️ Today is the last day to get:
✅ $1 Early Bird Tickets
✅ FREE Family Admission (up to 6) with PASSJ Membership

Bring your family for a day of food, games, kite flying, entertainment, and community fun!

📲 See the flyer below for details and scan the QR codes or visit:
🎫 Tickets: https://tinyurl.com/PassjTicket
👥 Membership: https://tinyurl.com/PassjMember

We look forward to seeing you there! 🇵🇰🇺🇸

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