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History
Abdul Sattar Edhi began his organization in 1948 by shifting injured
people to hospitals, and has since then developed a service which
attracts funds of $5 million per year , with no government
assistance. His radio-linked network includes 500 ambulances
throughout Pakistan, and he has also set up 300 relief centres, 3
air ambulances , 24 hospitals, 3 drug rehabilitation centres,
women's centres, free dispensaries, adoption programmes and soup
kitchens that feed 100,000 people a month. he has paid for and
supervised the training of 17,000 nurses.
The Edhi Foundation donated $100, 000 to the Katrina Relief effort.
With branches in New
York, London, Dubai, the work of Edhi Foundation has now extended
beyond Pakistan and has spread out on an international scale. Today
branches of Abdul Sattar Edhi International Foundation are providing
regular services in New York , London and Dubai, while preliminary
work for starting branches in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Sudan,
Yemen and Afghanistan has already been completed.
Major Activities
• Baby cradles:Taking care of newborn babies who have been
abandoned in garbage dumps in the streets. Giving them medical care
and finding foster parents for them.
• Homes for the needy and impoverished: Shelter and medical
aid to the homeless, mentally retarded, destitute and mentally
handicapped men, women and children recovered from the streets.
• Education: Sheltering, educating and giving technical
training to homeless boys and girls, who are otherwise mentally fit.
• Helpless girls and women: Offering a permanent shelter to
helpless girls and women, from various parts of Pakistan, who have
left their homes in anger.
• Lost Children: Restoring lost and runaway children, from
various parts of Pakistan, to their heirs.
• Graveyard services: Free shrouding and burial rites of unclaimed
bodies by all centres.
• Prisoner's Aid: Assuring release of innocent, kinless, and
mad prisoners, with the help of voluntary lawyers, and providing
them shelter.
• Emergency situations: Emergency relief to millions of
affecees in case of any emergency, natural calamity, drought, flood
etc, including provision of rations, clothes, medicines, blankets,
duets and other articles of daily use.
• Cancer hostel, Warehouses, Missing Persons, Cancer hostel, Blood
and Drug Bank
Medical Facilities
• Free treatment of thousands of patients daily through a network of
Edhi dispensaries established all over Pakistan.
• Hundreds of blood and urine tests carried out daily at Edhi Free
Laboratories for patients of diabetes and other diseases.
• Free treatment and medicines provided daily to patients at Edhi
Diabetes Centre.
• Medical assistance by doctors specializing in various diseases
offered at "Edhi Dree Diagnostic Centre".
• Free treatment and medication for tuberculosis patients at Edhi
Chest Hospital(Hyderabad) and clinic (sabzi mandi).
• Hundreds of babies delivered every month at Edhi Maternity Homes.
• Free vacination services whereby expectantmothers and new born
babies are inoculated against various diseases.
• Free inoculations carried out in case of outbreaks of any
contagious disease.
• Thousands of wheelchairs, crutches, latrine chairs and pots,and
white sticks of international standard for the blind , given every
year to those who are penniless and disabled.
• Oxygen cylinders, wheel chairs, suction machines, patient beds,
crutches and latrine chairs provided to needy patients, round the
clock, for a very nominal deposit.
• Distribution of clothes and sweetmeats to prisoners in all jails
and remand homes of Pakistan, regardless of their faith or religion,
on all major occasions for celebration.
• Constant supply of daily use items to refugees arriving from
Occupied Kashmir.
• Shelter for homeless or abandoned animals at Edhi Village.
• Edhi North Karachi Centre for mentally retarded women.
• Cancer hostel
• Blood and Drug Bank
Ambulance Services
Field, Air and Marine
• Free ambulance service throughout Pakistan for injured and dead
victims of any kind of emergency, disaster, floods, riots,
earthquakes, droughts and accidents on roads and highways.
• Besides providing free blood , life saving drugs and other
medicines, if needed Edhi ambulance and helicopters also shift the
injured to major towns free of cost. Patients and dead bodies
transported within city limits and to other towns and cities, at a
200% financial loss, by a fleet of 400 ambulances, 1 helicopter and
two used as air ambulances.
This service is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the
largest Volunteer Ambulance Service in the world.
International Activities
• Refugee Assistance
• Community Centers
• Emergency Relief
For example, the Edhi Foundation donated $100, 000 to the Katrina
Relief effort.
How to give donations
Donations are to be given only at Edhi Welfare Centres.
For the sake of security of your donation, for any donation
exceeding Rs.2000/- please donate in the form of a cheque/ bank
draft / pay order in the name of Abdul Sattar Edhi Foundation,
Account no. 640, Muslim Commercial Bank, Bombay Bazar branch,
Karachi or send your donation directly to the head office .In cities
where there are branches of Muslim Commercial Bank, you can also
deposit directly into the Foundation's accounts in these branches.
Edhi Welfare Centre needs your constant financial cooperation. Every
single penny that you donate is spent for ameliorating the
sufferings of ailing humanity and acts as a welfare insurance for
the citizens of Pakistan.
Pakistan
Head Office - Karachi, Pakistan Boltan Market Mithadar,
Karachi
Tel: +92-21 / 225225, 226442, 226057, 744864
Karachi: (021) 242-1920, 220-1261
Islamabad: (051) 282-7844
Lahore: (042) 541-4211
Multan: (061) 458-3906
Peshawar: (091) 221-4575
USA
USA Edhi international Foundation
42-07 National street
Corona, New York, 11368 U.S.A.
Tel: (718)(639-5120) Fax:(718)(335-1978)
The Edhi Foundation
itself, as mentioned above, does not collect funds at any place
other than Edhi Centers. However, some organizations offer an
indirect way of doing the same. For example, secure online donations
(tax-deductible in the US) for the Edhi Foundation earthquake relief
efforts can be made via the Association for the Development of
Pakistan website.
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Edhi International Foundation,
7 Shakespeare road,
Finchley, Central London N3 IXE,
United Kingdom.
Tel:(0208)(346-9232), (0208)(349-0296)
Alternative details
316 Edgware Road
London
W2 1DY
Tel: 020 7723 2050
Fax: 020 7722 9774
Online form for donating to Edhi:
http://www.charitiesdirect.com/charity2/ch016952.htm
Canada
Edhi Charitable Foundation
257 Risebrough Circut Markham Ontario L3R 3J3 CANADA
[[ == 905-940-1453 ==]]
Japan
Japan Edhi International Foundation,
RM 101 COPO Nikkei, 1-25 4-Chome,
Minami-ohi Shinagawa -KU-Tokyo 140 Japan.
Australia
Australia Abdul Sattar Edhi International Foundation,
Level 20, Picadly tower,
133, Castle reagh street, Sydney 2000,
Australia.
Tel: 02-2646499, 03-3767-7282
Fax: 03-3764-4395, 02-264-7337
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Edhi International Foundation Inc,
2/2 Purana palton, 3rd Floor,
Dhaka - 1000
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