Edhi Foundation
http://www.paks.net/edhi-foundation/
E-Mail: edhi@cyber.net.pk
Programs:
- 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.
- Cemetery Services: Free shrouding and
burial rites of unclaimed bodies.
- Prisoner's Aid: Assuring release of
innocent, kinless, and insane prisoners, with the help of voluntary
lawyers, and providing them shelter.
- Emergency Relief: in case of any
emergency, natural calamity, drought, flood etc, including provision
of rations, clothes, medicines, blankets, etc.
- Blood and Medicine 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.
- Hundreds of babies delivered every month
at Edhi Maternity Homes.
- Free vacination services whereby
expectant mothers 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 white canes 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, 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.
International Activities:
- Refugee Assistance
- Community Centers
- Offices Abroad
Edhi strongly adheres to the principles of
self-help. A large number of women trained in Edhi nursing homes in
Karachi initially had approached Edhi foundation for Charity. However,
they were persuaded to undergo the nurse training and to become
independent. While undergoing training they are paid a stipend.
Edhi foundation has also been innovative in
providing some unconventional welfare services despite severe social and
cultural opposition. The Jhoolas (cradles) is fine example of the use of
imagination very creatively. Baby cradles are installed near most
emergency Edhi centers where unwanted children can be abandoned without
disclosing any identity. Some groups and individuals viewed the "Jhoola"
service as an encouragement for illegitimate childbirth. However, to Edhi,
the cradles save people from committing even a more heinous crime of
leaving unwanted babies to die in the rubbish dumps.
Edhi has quietly brought about a remarkable
change in the social attitudes in Pakistan towards community welfare by
instilling in ordinary citizens a consistent desire to participate in
public welfare programs.
The mission of Edhi Foundation is to
motivate the people in Pakistan and other third world countries, to
resolve their social and other problems on self-help basis.
Edhi emphasizes the importance of
safeguarding the basic human rights, regardless of religion, caste or
creed. "My religion is humanitarianism….. Which is the basis of
every religion in this world".
Donate in the form of a check, bank draft
to:
Pakistan
Abdul Sattar Edhi Foundation,
Account No.640,
Muslim Commercial Bank,
Bombay Bazar Branch,
Karachi. Pakistan
USA
Edhi International Foundation.
42-07 National Street
Corona, New York, 11368 USA
Tel: (718)(639-5120)
Fax:(718)(335-1978)
UNITED KINGDOM
Edhi International Foundation,
7 Shakespeare Road,
Finchley , Central London N3 IXE,
United Kingdom
Tel: 020-8346-9232 and 020-8349-0296
JAPAN
Edhi International Foundation
RM 101 COPO Nikkei,
1-25 4-Chome
Minami-Ohi Shinagawa – KU
Tokyo 140
Japan
AUSTRALIA
Abdul Sattar Edhi International Foundation
Level 20, Picadly Tower,
133 Castle Reagh Street,
Sydney 2000
Australia
Ph: 02-2646499
Fax: 02-264-7337
BANGLADESH
Edhi International Foundation Inc.
2/2 Purana Palton, 3rd Floor
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
E-Mail: edhi@cyber.net.pk
http://www.contactpakistan.com/socialwork/Edhi/
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