Sunday, January 17, 2010

Edhi Trust

KARACHI: Lives soured by neglect, shunned by relatives, given scant attention by the government, a growing number of mentally challenged women and children have found a safe haven in Edhi Centre for the Mentally Ill Women in North Karachi

Abdul Sattar Edhi

In 1985 Abdul Sattar Edhi received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan in recognition of his services. The Government of Philippines awarded Abdul Sattar Edhi & his wife Bilquees the Magsayay award. In 2006 Abdul Sattar Edhi received an honorary doctorate degree in recognition to his unparalleled services to mankind, his dedicated and indiscriminate long work towards the betterment and welfare of humanity across the globe.

Edhi emergency dispatchers


Edhi emergency dispatchers operate around the clock . from any phone in pakistan , dialing 154 connects a caller with the edhi ambulance service . august , 2004 . edhi foundation is the most trusted name in pakistan when it comes to relief work within distressed areas in pakistan and the rest of the world . edhi foundation is a nonprofit organization that has been in the business of providing social services like medical care , emergency services , air ambulances , burial services , mental habitats , old homes , child welfare services , abused women safe houses and training facilities for the disadvantaged . edhis founder is abdul sattar edhi who established the first clinic in 1951 .

Abdul Sattar Edhi Center

A bride signing marriage Papers in a Abdul Sattar Edhi Center

Bilqees Edhi

KARACHI - November 9, 2005: Singer Hadiqa Kiyani feeds her newly-adopted child at a press conference with Bilqees Edhi, who gave her the child from the Edhi Centre on Wednesday.

Breakfast at Edhi Child Home

Breakfast at the edhi child home is well organized ; the boys rotate the responsibilities of cooking , serving and cleaning . august , 2004 . edhi foundation is the most trusted name in pakistan when it comes to relief work within distressed areas in pakistan and the rest of the world . edhi foundation is a nonprofit organization that has been in the business of providing social services like medical care , emergency services , air ambulances , burial services , mental habitats , old homes , child welfare services , abused women safe houses and training facilities for the disadvantaged . Edhis founder is abdul sattar edhi who established the first clinic in 195.

Edhi Trust Morgue

When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s body was found in Karachi months after he was murdered, it went first to the Edhi Trust morgue before being shipped home to the United States.

Edhi Home

In Karachi women who had handed over their children to the Edhi home return to take them back.

Edhi Morgue

Family members try to identify their deceased relatives at the EDHI morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007. At least 139 people died on Friday morning after an attack by a suicide bomber targeted former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Edhi Foundation


Reuters: Rescue workers from Edhi Foundation carry victims

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi driving his own Ambulance

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Edhi information Bureaus in Karachi, one of about 300 throughout Pakistan. From here several services are provided which

include ambulance, a free kitchen, missing person information, etc. Like all Edhi centers, it has a shaded cradle outside its

door, with a sign that reads "Do not kill". Children left in the cradle are housed in one of its 13 centers.

Abdus Sattar Edhi, bathing Fahim Commando

Abdus Sattar Edhi, bathing Fahim Commando. Karachi. Pakistan

Abdul Sattar Edhi

PHILANTHROPIST Abdul Sattar Edhi with a few of the many thousands of children he has helped.

Edhi Foundation

Edhi Foundation is the most trusted name in Pakistan when it comes to relief work within distressed areas in Pakistan and the rest of the world.

EDhi Trust

A life of helping: In a half-century of work, Bilquis Edhi (c.) and her husband have rescued tens of thousands of abandoned

children and placed more than 15,000 with adoptive parents. She screens potential couples in her office.

Edhi Welfare Center

Bilquis Edhi with the eight children left at the Edhi Welfare Center in Karachi

Bilquis edhi , center , has overseen the edhi foundations more than 16 , 000 adoptions as well as the development of hospitals and vocational services for women and a home for girls . august , 2004 . edhi foundation is the most trusted name in pakistan when it comes to relief work within distressed areas in pakistan and the rest of the world . edhi foundation is a nonprofit organization that has been in the business of providing social services like medical care , emergency services , air ambulances , burial services , mental habitats , old homes , child welfare services , abused women safe houses and training facilities for the disadvantaged . edhis founder is abdul sattar edhi who established the first clinic in 1951