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Department of Business Admininistra

Bahauddin Zakariya University
Multan

About Edhi Foundation

Edhi Foundation is the single best foundation across Pakistan and one of the best social welfare service providers across the
world running on non-commercial, non-political, and non-communal basis, serving round-the-clock without any discrimination

of color, class, and creed is enjoying exclusive credentials in the shape of awards and shields conferred upon Mr. Abdul Sattar
Edhi and Mrs. Bilquis Edhi by governmental and non-governmental organizations on national and international level for
rendering their exemplary services to humanity in multidimensional fields.
The diversified fields in which Abdul Sattar Edhi played his greatest role for; saving the lives of thousands of newborn babies by
placing the cradles outside the Edhi centres, fostering the abandoned babies and children, free nurturing disabled and
handicapped people, free caring and feeding women and elderly people who were subjected to torture or neglected by their
families, free supporting to ailing patients by providing free medication and medicines through his mobile dispensaries, hospitals,
and the diabetic centre at Karachi.
In addition to above, he offered his services in many other areaslike providing land, air, and marine ambulance services during
accidents to shift patients to hospitals, national and international relief and aid assistance to the affectees of natural debacles,
providing relief aid to refugees in various countries, providing emergency services to the sufferers of drought, fire, and flood,
saving the lives of drowned people added with recovering dead bodies from the seas and floods, free rehabilitating the drug
addicts, free tracing the missing people, free arranging marriages for the helpless girls and boys, providing free food, clothing,
and blankets to needy people.
Besides above, he also served the humanity by offering his services by, providing free technical education to needy people to
make them self sufficient through the technical knowledge and skills, providing religious education to the children to make them
the best human beings, providing consultancy on family planning and maternity services, providing free blood and plasma to the
disadvantaged people, providing free shelter, food, and caring to mentally retarded people, caring by giving shelter and food to
orphan and helpless children.
Services to humanity rendered by Abdul Sattar Edhi and his spouse Mrs. Bilquis Edhi never end here, he played his role in some
more areassuch as; provided free legal aid to bail out or the prisoners from the prisons, financial and medical support to the
prisoners, provided crutches and supporters to the handicapped people, and gave exclusive free bathing and shrouding services to
unclaimed dead bodies, so on and so forth. All these services are so much outstanding and exceptional that Edhi Foundations
role can truly be attributed to an unprecedented example of services to the nation and country of Pakistan as well as humanity,
across the globe.

Bilquis Bano Edhi

Bilquis Bano Edhi wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi, is a professional nurse and one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan.
She has been nicknamed, The Mother of Pakistan. She was born in 1947 in Karachi. She heads the Bilquis Edhi Foundation, and
with her husband received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. Her charity runs many services in Pakistan
including a hospital and emergency service in Karachi. Together with her husband their charity has saved over 16,000 unwanted
babies.
It is true, as the saying goes: There is a woman behind every man. Bilquis Edhi is a woman of substance, for sure; and she has
come a long way with Edhi for a cause that is simply great.
Bilquis Bano Edhi, wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi, is a humanitarian, a social worker and one of the most active philanthropists in
Pakistan, holds the honor of being awarded the prestigious Hilal-e-Imtiaz, and with her husband received the 1986 Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Public Service. She is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize. Her charity runs many services in
Pakistan including a hospital and emergency service in Karachi.
Bilquis Edhi the young lass who was not very good at studies, joined the nurses training course at the Edhi Nurses Training
Centre when she was in the 8th grade. Later Abdul Sattar Edhi proposed to her and they got married in April 1966. Since then,
she has been working with the Edhi Foundation A Foundation which was started by Abdul Sattar Edhi with the mission to
provide aid to Pakistan's poor and down-trodden has become Pakistan's major relief organization under the leadership of the
husband and wife - team of Abdul Sattar and Bilquis Edhi. Today, in addition to services provided in Pakistan, Edhi foundation is
a major resource for assisting victims of disaster internationally.
Abdul Sattar Edhis possessions at the time of his marriage were a broken old car and a small dispensary. There was a maternity
home on the first floor with 6-7 beds, a small room 6 X 6 on the ground floor which served as an office and a similar room on
the first floor. There wasnt much else but even in those days when the newly wed couple had very limited resources, people used
to leave their kids with them and Bilquis Edhi used to look after them.
Bilquis Edhi vividly remembers her first major experience at Edhi Foundation, when during the war; the bombings resulted in a
number of brutally mutilated bodies which she had to wash for burial. At times only an arm, leg or head was recovered. She,
along with about 60-70 workers including voluntary workers, collected and then washed these bodies.
Her current responsibilities include looking after the ladies section, giving away children for adoption mostly looking after

women-specific and children related sections throughout Pakistan. Her two daughters also work closely with me. She regularly
visits Edhi Homes all over Pakistan to monitor their activities and give suggestions and recommendations on how she feels the
work should be done. She is also instrumental in making Edhi Homes Centers of Excellence in the true sense of the word.
With regard to child adoption, she makes sure the criteria are fulfilled to approve / disapprove of couples who want to adopt a
child. Couples who want to adopt a child are interviewed by Bilquis Edhi. Her criteria for adoption are that even after 10-12 years
of marriage the couple is still childless, prospective fathers salary should be reasonable, prospective father should not have
alcohol or drug-related problems, prospective mothers age should be younger than 50 and the couple should own a house. Her
foundation doesnt give children to couples who keep changing their house keep moving from one place to another. Kids who
are physically or mentally disabled are cared for by Edhi Foundation. They have a separate section for them where they clean
them, feed them, play with them etc. The kids remain with them for the rest of their lives. Aside from the disabled children, the
other children who dont get adopted do not pose any problem, whatsoever. Edhi Foundation has over 4,000 applications in hand.
They dont have enough kids to give to people. So they are careful in selecting prospective parents. They have a shariat-nama in
place which they make the parents sign where it is explicitly mentioned that in case of separation between the parents, the Centre
will reclaim the child or let the child stay with the mother.
Edhi Foundation keeps expanding by adding new welfare services every now and then Bilquis Edhi sees Pakistan's future as
bright, provided if people feel the pain and work for a better future. When she goes abroad with Edhi, they come back with lots of
ideas. The couple dreams of the day when welfare facilities in Pakistan would be comparable to those we find abroad. She feels
that this seems to be a distant dream. She said: We dont even have clean drinking water here. Load shedding is an ongoing
problem. After the recent oil spill [in Karachi] when the oil tanker broke in half, people were saying that our country had gone
back 20 years in time. As far as I am concerned in the last 55 years we have not moved forward. We are still where we were 55
years ago.
Abdul Sattar Edhi and Bilquis Edhi, both think of things for the future. She told us that when Edhi comes up with an idea he
writes it down. In 1976, the couple was involved in an accident which took place near a village with no airport or landing strip
nearby. Around that time a building collapsed in Karachi - Bismillah Building. At that time Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was in power.
Noticing Edhis absence from the scene of the disaster he inquired as to his whereabouts upon which he was told of the situation.
Bhutto immediately dispatched a small airplane to pick them up. Edhi was admitted to the Civil Hospital in Karachi where
shortly after gaining consciousness; he remarked that he would also like to buy a plane. Bilquis Edhi asked how he will be able to
afford a plane as his current situation was such that if he put his hand in the pocket for some loose change, thread used to come
out instead. However, Edhi never got disheartened and pulled along with conviction and dedication. By the Grace of Allah, they
now have a plane, helicopters everything.
Bilquis Edhi is honored to be the life-partner of a person whose love for humanity is larger than life. She regards him as a good
man - Albeit a little short tempered but good at heart. The couple has still not built their own house yet. Bilquis Edhi fondly
remembered her first 4-5 years after marriage when she used to live on the roof. Later, after the birth of her four kids, she moved
to her mothers house. Her mother looked after the kids. On a daily basis she used to shuffle between her house and the Edhi
Centre. After the kids grew up and got married, Bilquis Edhis mother passed away. The couple spends their days and nights at
the Edhi Centre. In their 36-37 years of married life, there may have been at least 36 occasions when they never even came home
at night. Even now when their children want to see him, they bring lunch from their home and come and eat with them.

They seldom take time out from their work but they have spent some good time together on the job. In the last 34-35 years there

have been many occasions when they had to drop off patients and deceased people to far off villages. After dropping them off, on
the way back they used to stop over in villages and rural areas where they have been treated with lassi, chicken in gravy among
other delicacies and looked after extremely well by the people of those areas. They also sat on charpoys with their feet in the
water fresh cold water streams abound in these areas. They have had some good times together. On these trips they used to feel
like they were extremely rich people with cars of their own. Others who lived in those areas didnt have any cars so they used to
request them to take them along whenever they went on such trips.
Faisal, Kubra, Zeenat and Almas the Edhis have an educated progeny, bright young people. After Bilquis and Abdul Sattar, they
will look after the Edhi Foundation and carry the torch forward.
Bilquis Edhi has spent her life for a noble cause and she continues to do so. She is lucky as a human-being and even luckier as a
woman for she got a helping hand in the form of her husband. Abdul Sattar and Bilquis complement each other in the very true
sense of the word.

Edhi Biography

Abdul Sattar Edhis social welfare services are spanned over his entire life by offering exclusive sacrifices in many areaslike
personal and social life as well as his personal business, and so on. He is serving the humanity selflessly and dedicatedly without
expecting for any monetary benefit or financial gain. He has buried over 200,000 unclaimed dead bodies.
His exclusive services to the mankind, with exclusive reference to shrouding and then burying unclaimed and abandoned deadbodies, at a time, when there is no value of any human being, as extremists of the modern times are cutting the healthy and live
human beings into pieces like onions and tomatoes, at such time, Edhis role for the humanity is truly unparalleled and
unmatched, and very least possibilities of tracing this sort of best services for the humanity, across the world.
This is something indicating towards a reality that there is no place of goodwill, love and affection, brotherhood and amity,
feelings of friendliness yet by serving to the humanity, Edhi has given a new meaning to the life that everyone should forward to
give goodwill, love and affection, brotherhood and affection, and feelings of friendliness to others again a matter of pride for
Edhi.
The story of services in the explainer video explained by Edhi can also be listened and to get more updates about the Edhis role
for the humanity.

Historical Perspective
Every society is destined to face the problems of looking after the welfare of the sick, the weak, the destitute and the needy. All
societies are alike in this respect. One way of assessing the status of a society on the road to civilization is the value accorded to
an individual and his basic human needs. These have not always received the attention they deserve in the planning of economics,
particularly in developing countries. Most of the available resources are consumed by defense needs and pressing demands for
technological progress.
Programs for development in the social sector remain a long way behind, mainly because of financial constraints. Special efforts
are, therefore, needed to mobilize community resources to initiate and develop programs for the welfare of the weak and the
disadvantaged members of society.

Founder Profile
Abdul Sattar Edhi was born in 1928 in a small village of Bantva near Joona Garh, Gujrat (India). The seeds of compassion for
the suffering humanity were sown in his soul by his mothers infirmity. When Edhi was at the tender age of eleven, his mother
became paralysed and later got mentally ill. Young Abdul Sattar devoted himself for looking after all her needs; cleaning,
bathing, changing clothes and feeding. This proved to be a loosing battle against the disease, and her helplessness increased over
the years. Her persistent woeful condition left a lasting impression on young Edhi. The course of his life took a different turn
from other persons of his age. His studies were also seriously affected and he could not complete his high school level. For him
the world of suffering became his tutor and source of wisdom.
Edhis mother died when he was 19. His personal experience made him think of thousands and millions, suffering like his
mother, around with nobody to look after them. He thought that he had a call to help these people. He had a vision of chains of
welfare centres and hospitals that could be opened to alleviate the pain of those suffering from illness and neglect. He also
thought of the in-human treatment meted out to the mentally ill, the insane and the disabled persons.
Even at this early age, he felt personally responsible for taking on the challenge of developing a system of services to reduce
human miseries. The task was huge he had no resources. But it was some thing that he had to do even if he had to walk to the
streets if he had to beg for this purpose.
Edhi and his family migrated to Pakistan in 1947. In order to earn his living, Abdul Sattar Edhi initially started as a peddler, later
became a commission agent selling cloth in the wholesale market in Karachi.
After a couple of years, he left this occupation and with the support of some members of his community decided to establish a
free dispensary. He became involved in this charity work. However, soon his personal vision of a growing and developing system
of multifarious services made him decide to establish a welfare trust of his own and named it as "Edhi Trust".
An appeal was made to the public for funds. The response was good, and Rs.200,000/- were raised. The range and scope of work
of Edhi Trust expanded with remarkable speed under the driving spirit of the man behind it. A maternity home was established
and emergency ambulance service was started in the sprawling metropolis of Karachi with a population of over 10 million.

More donations were received as peoples confidence in the activities of the Trust grew. With the passage of time, masses gave
him the title of the" Angel of Mercy."
Abdul Sattar Edhi was married in 1965 to Bilquis, a nurse who worked at the Edhi dispensary. The couple have four children, two
daughters and two sons. Bilquis runs the free maternity home at the headquarter in Karachi and organises the adoption of
illegitimate and abandoned babies. The husband-wife team has come to share the common vision of single minded devotion to
the cause of alleviation of human sufferings and a sense of personal responsibility to respond to each call for help, regardless of
race, creed or status.
Edhi involves himself in every activity at Edhi Foundation from raising funds to bathing corpses. Round the clock he keeps with
him an ambulance which he drives himself and makes rounds of the city regularly. On finding a destitute or an injured person any
where on the way, he escorts him to the Relief Centre where immediate attention is given to the needy person. Inspite of his busy
work schedule with the Foundation, Edhi finds enough time to spare with the residents of the orphanages called "Edhi Homes".
He is very found of playing and laughing with the children. A short strongly built man in his early seventies with a flowing beard
and a ready smile, Edhi is popularly called "Nana" (Grandfather) by the residents of "Edhi Homes".
Despite his enormous fame and the vast sums of money that passes through his hands, Edhi adheres to a very simple and modest
life style. He and his family live in a two room apartment adjacent to the premises of Foundations headquarter. Neither Edhi nor
Bilquis receives any salary. They live on the income from government securities that Edhi bought many years ago to take care of
their personal needs for the rest of their lives, thereby freeing them to devote single mindedly to their missionary work.
He shuns publicity for the fear of becoming haughty. As the credibility and fame grew and the name of Edhi became a house-hold
word, people started approaching him for becoming chief guest on special occasions.
In an interview given to a journalist in Lahore in 1991, Edhi said,"I want to request the people not to invite me to social
gatherings and inaugural ceremonies. This only wastes my time which is wholly devoted to the well being of our people."
Although Edhi has a traditional Islamic background, he has an open and progressive mind on a number of sensitive social issues.
He strongly supports the notion of working women. Of the 2,000 paid workers of the Edhi Foundation around 500 are women.
They work in various capacities in-charges of Edhi centres, heads of maternity homes and dispensaries and office workers. Moreover, several women volunteers help Edhi Foundation in fund raising. Edhi encourages women to do all sorts of work without
differentiation.

Emergence of a Nation-wide Network

A. Sattar Edhi has spent over 45 years of his life in the service of humanity. He as established, more or less single handedly, a
national welfare network, the Edhi Foundation (EF), which operates from a small headquarter, in a poor locality of Karachi.
The simplicity of central office is amazing in view of the wide range of the nation-wide services co-ordinated by Edhi personally
with the help of telephones and a handful of assistants. It is, therefore, not easy to manage the strange mixture of complexity of
operations and use of administrative communication channels with the limited staff. This has inevitably resulted in the
centralisation of policy decisions.

However, with the general spread of the services to all parts of the country and an increasing awareness of the public, the way has
been paved for greater involvement of communities in the management of welfare services. Edhi displays a remarkable stamina
and energy at the advanced age of seventy to keep himself informed about all activities of the Foundation in all parts of Pakistan.
He travels in Pakistan and abroad extensively for this purpose and conveys a feeling of being there, when needed.

EDHI OFFICES AND CENTERS

National Offices

EDHI HEAD OFFICE

ZONAL OFFICE KARACHI
ZONAL OFICE QUETTA
ZONAL OFFICE MULTAN
ZONAL OFFICE FAISALABAD
ZONAL OFFICE LAHORE
ZONAL OFFICE ISLAMABAD
4 Edhi Centers Islamabad
12 Edhi Centers in the province of NWFP
68 Edhi Centers in the province of Punjab
62 Edhi Centers in the province of Sindh
5 Edhi Centers in the province of Balochistan
2 Edhi Centers in the province of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
2 Edhi Centers in the province of Fata

International Offices

London, U.K
Toronto, Canada

Organizational Chart
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI
Chairman
Head Office

MRS. BILQUIS EDHI

FASIAL EDHI

KUBRA EDHI

Director

Director

Director

Head Office

Head Office

Head Office

Bilquis

Zonal

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Maternity

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Home

Karachi

Lahore

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Offices in

IO USA

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IO UAE

IO Japan

Islamabad Faisalabad

IO Canada IO Australia IO Nepal

Edhi home

Zonal Office

Karachi

Quetta

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Bangladesh

Major Features of Edhi Foundation

Major features of Edhi Foundation which make
it unique
Edhi Foundationthe largest organizational set-up running in multidimensional areas in Pakistan modifies the catchphrase Live
and Let Live by Live and Help Live, which means Edhi guides others that whilst passing the life, dont let to live with
hardships and difficulties, yet extend your every possible assistance to others, in case, any assistance is sought from you, to live
with happiness and ease.
The largest organization with its biggest number of fleet, and bigger number of working professionals, working round the clock
has set the best examples, for other social service providers to tread upon his footprint.
The services which make the Edhi Foundation unique among all other social welfare service providers, is its exemplary services
in the areas ofsuch as providing free shroud and burial services to unclaimed dead bodies, shelter for the disabled and destitute
people, orphans and abandoned children, provision of free hospitals and dispensaries in the highly neglected areas, rehabilitation
of drug addicts, and so on.
Edhi Foundation services is an open book that has many remarkable chapters, one of them isoffering supporting system to the
handicappedlike wheel chairs, crutches, and so on, family planning counselling, maternity services, national and international
relief efforts during the disasters to provide relief to the victims of natural calamities.
Edhi Foundation has set many examples, which cant be traced by other NGOs and trusts actively serving in Pakistan that Edhi
believes in the principle of self help, thus he is running all his social welfare driven activities without getting funding from any
government or donor agency. It is a fact that Edhi isnt entertaining even he refuses the concept of support from others. The only
donations are entertained from the individuals and few leading businessmen.

EDHI ACTIVITIES

Destitute Homes
Edhi Home also called as "Apna Ghar" (our home), is a home for the mentally ill destitute, for orphans and runaways. There
are 13 such homes in the country out of which seven are in Karachi . About six thousand persons live in Edhi Homes. A destitute
or homeless becomes a member of Edhi's family once he enters its premises. All boarding, lodging, clothing, and logistic
arrangements are entirely free.If a person dies within these homes, the burial arrangements are made by the Foundation according
to the religious rites of the deceased (Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Christian, or any other religion).
In Edhi Homes, there is a team of specialists to deal with particular problems of the residents. It is supported by a small staff. The
residents are encouraged and trained to look after their personal needs themselves. This inculcates in them the spirit of self-help,
and keeps them engaged in beneficial activities. In-charge of one of the Edhi Homes for the orphans and runaways, says"
Encouraging children to do their own work gives them self-respect and makes them feel that the benefits they get in return are not
charity but reward for their efforts".

EDHI HOMES
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Edhi Home For Children (Mithadar)

Edhi Home Female Child(New Clifton)
Edhi Home (Qasba)
Edhi Home For Women (N. Karachi)
Edhi Home For Children (Korangi)
Edhi Home For Children (Village)
Edhi Home For Elders (Village)
Edhi Home For Children (Sohrab Goth)
Edhi Home For Elders (Sohrab Goth)
Edhi Home (Peshawar)
Edhi Home (Quetta)
Edhi Home (Islamabad)
Edhi Home (Gilgit)
Edhi Home (Lahore)
Edhi Home (Gulberg, Lahore)
Edhi Home (Kala Shah Kaku Lahore)
Edhi Home For Male (Multan)
Edhi Home For Female (Multan)
Bilquis Edhi Cancer Hospital

Doctors
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High Ways Project (25 KILOMETER)

Under this project, it is planned to construct five hundred Edhi Centres in order to cover a sizeable population on all highways
and major link-roads of Pakistan in a properly phased fashion. The existing centres provide first aid to accident victims and
arrange for their speedy transfer to the nearby hospitals. More-over, these centres are being used for providing medical facilities
in rural and semi-urban areas.
Also they provide ambulance service at nominal charges, facility for vaccinating new-born babies and children against diseases,
and other welfare services. The dispensary and mobile dispensary at each centre cater for medical assistance to approximately
two hundred and fifty patients daily.
On completion of the proposed project each Centre will have three ambulances, a four-bedded emergency unit, a permanent
dispensary and a mobile dispensary for field operations. All Centres will be linked with wireless sets. Each centre is estimated to
cost Rs. One million giving a total project cost of Rs. Five hundred million. Work has started on this project and sixty permanent
and

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functioning.

Work is also underway to include the establishment of additional Edhi Homes for the destitute, dispensaries, centres for
rehabilitation of heroin addicts, ambulance centres and rural welfare centres. Acquisition of additional ambulance aircraft's is also
in hand to provide a speedy service between these centres.

International Community Centers

The work of Edhi Foundation has extended beyond Pakistan. Currently, branches of Edhi International Foundation are providing
regular services in New York, Dacca, Tokyo, Sydney, London, Dubai, while preliminary work for establishing branches in
Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Yemen and Russia has been completed. These International Community Centres look after the
welfare of Asians abroad.

Their Activities Include

Burial of dead bodies, financial and moral support to the needy people visiting foreign countries for medical treatment, assistance
in restoring lost and runaway children to their families, co-ordination and distribution of relief aid outside Pakistan, and drug
abuse rehabilitation service.

Collaboration with Other Organizations

Besides running its own fleet of ambulances, Edhi Foundation has been supporting other government institutions and nongovernmental organisations in a variety of ways, keeping in view the larger interest of the masses.
A list of organisations receiving ambulances as donations from Edhi Foundation is given below:

Ministry of Health, Sindh Ojha TB Sanatorium, Karachi.

Civil Hospital, Hyderabad.

TB. Centre, Kotri.

Liaquat Medical Hospital, Jamshoro.

Trust for Destitute People, Hyderabad.

Memon Hospital, Hyderabad.

Government Hospital, Shikarpur

International Activities

Aid to Afghan refugees since 1978.

Relief to the needy in the civil war in Lebanon during 1983.

Rupees 0.5 million for flood relief in Bangladesh during 1986. In addition an ambulance was also provided.

Rupees one million in aid to the drought and famine-stricken areas in Ethiopia during 1985.

Aid to earthquake victims of Armenia, USSR during year 1989.

Aid for the affected people and refugees of Persian Gulf War during 1991 in the form of blood, plasma, medicines and
surgical instruments, etc, worth approximately Rs. 4.5 million.

Aid to earthquake victims of north-western Iran during 1990.

Continuous relief goods including tents, clothing, blankets and rations for refugees in Azad Kashmir.

Relief aid to Kurd refugees.

EDHI SERVICES

Ambulance

Ambulance service

Emergency Medical Service

Patient Transfer Service

Air Ambulance Service
Marine Service
Out City Ambulance Service
Mobile Mortuary

Hospital

Free Consultancy Clinic

Laboratory
Pre Diabetic Centre
Nursing Training Centre
Immunization Center
Patient Utility Service

Ambulance Service

Edhi Land Ambulance Service was initially started by including a second hand Hillman Pickup Truck and that was refurbished
into the first ambulance, thereby coining Poor Patient Ambulance. Now sixty years after, the Edhi ambulance has reached to the

stage of largest fleet of ambulances in the world, thereby providing with a tantalizing number of ambulancessuch as 1800
vehicles, all over our country Pakistan.

Air Ambulance Services

Edhi Air Ambulance Service have 2 aircrafts and 1 helicopter to provide relief and assistance during the natural disasters, with a
view provide airlift services to the stranded or those who are injured and immediately shift to the nearby hospital, during any
expected natural debacle.

Mobile Mortuary
In this mortuary, there was space to keep only 16 coffins, yet now 30 coffins can be kept simultaneously, as these heirless dead
bodies which usually are unidentifiable who have either killed due to bigger accidents, or bomb blast, or firing.
These coffins are kept for 3-4 days in the mortuary, and then they are buried duly displaying their personal bio-date on the tinslate at the graveyard so that it could be easier to search and find by their heirs.
From 1986 to 2008, these unclaimed coffins were buried in the Edhi graveyard. When no space is left to bury any more dead
bodies, then a plot measuring to 10 acres were again purchased in 2008 where the heirless remains are being buried there till to
date.
In the Edhi Graveyard, on average 250 to 350 unclaimed dead bodies are being buried on monthly basis. For the burial of a
heirless coffin, on average Rs.6000/- expenses do occur. Yearly more than 8000 unclaimed coffins are being buried, and the
outlay comes to the tune of Rs.8000/- per coffin. In accordance with the record, in Edhi Mwach Goth Graveyard, 96000
unclaimed dead bodies have been buried till now.

Educational Services
Karachi Bilquis Edhi elementary and primary secondary schools are operating at Karachi, in the areas of, Old Sabzi Mandi, Noor
Shah Colony Mirphur Khaas and Masjid Road Nawabshah. In these remoter areas of Sindh, the students studying at these Edhi
homes are giving basic education.
The students studying at various schools in Sindh Province are listed as under

In Karachi
The students currently studying at these centres are ___ in number, whereas classes are held from 1st to Matric class. All our
students score over 80 percent marks during the Matric board examinations.

In Nawabshah
Edhi elementary school was opened in 2002, has classes from Nursery to Class V, making the number of students as_________,
by providing the early education as well as assisting to acquire satisfactory results.

In Mirpur Khaas
Bilquis Edhi Middle School is running in Mirpur Khaas, having over 511 students currently studying there. The school caters the
education from nursery to 8th class. This school is registered with Education & Literacy Department, Govt. of Sindh.

Resources
Honorary & Voluntary Services
Edhi Foundation is being run entirely with the assistance of staff, who are working on voluntarily basis and serving with the
missionary spirit and zeal, for the betterment of society and humanity. Thus, the best example of service that needs to be
followed on the precedent set forth by Edhi Foundation. These voluntarily working people comprise on zonal heads, clerical staff
at Edhi centres, workers at all Edhi homes and maternity home. With its bigger fleet size 1,800 ambulances have proved the
best source of job opportunity to 1800 drivers either.

Donations
Edhi Foundation accepts donation from Rs.5 to above any figure either in hundreds or thousands, or in millions, to extend
assistance for the social welfare activities of Edhi Foundation. Edhi Foundation believes in getting donation from the general
masses not from the rich people, so all humanitarian based services are run on the funding of general masses. Contribution can
also be made in the form of medicines, food, clothing, and animal hides either

Management Style

Management and spending of funding for varied social welfare based divisions, is controlled by Edhi with his son Faisal Edhi
and daughter Kubra Edhi. Edhi, his son Faisal and daughter Kubra Edhi are personally handling all finance related operations of
Edhi Foundation. They are also playing their role to collect the national and international funding. Edhi very much prefers to
drive ambulance to shift the patients to the hospitals, get funding, and making surprise visits to check various Edhi centres, across
the country Pakistan and abroad.

DONATIONS

Donation through Banks

Askari Bank Ltd

UBL Bank Ltd

MCB Bank Ltd

Allied Bank

Faysal Bank Ltd

Bank Al Habib Limited

Habib Metropolitan Bank

United Kingdom Banks

USA Banks

Germany Banks

Al-Baraka Bank

Australia Banks

ABDUL SATTAR EDHIS AWARDS

National awards

 1989: Nishan-e-Imtiaz from Government of Pakistan

1989: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Government of Pakistan, Recognition of
meritorious services to oppressed humanity during the eighties, 45 Years Of Selfless Service.
1989: Government of Sind, The Social Worker of Sub-Continent
1992: Pakistan Civic Society, Pakistan Civic Award
1995: Human Rights Award by Pakistan Human Rights Society.
1998: Khidmat Award by Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences.
1999: Shield of Honour by Pakistan Army (E & C)
1999: Silver Jubilee Shield by College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan

International awards

1986: Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service

1988: Lenin Peace Prize
1992: Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International Foundation
2000: International Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood.

2000: Largest Voluntary Ambulance Organization of the World - Guinness Book of World
Records
2000: Hamdan Award for volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services 2000 UAE
2000: International Balzan Prize 2000 for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood, Italy
2005: Life Time Achievement Award by the World Memon Organisation (WMO).
2006: Honorary Doctorate by the Institute of Business Administration Karachi (IBA)