Abdul Sattar Edhi
Your services to Pakistan and humanity are unforgettable
Abdul Sattar Edhi was born on February 28, 1928 in Bantuwa, Gujarat, India. Your father was a cloth merchant who belonged to the middle class. He was a born leader and from the beginning he encouraged his friends to do small things and play games. When his mother gave him two pennies when he went to school, he would spend one penny of it and one penny to meet the needs of another needy person. At the age of eleven, he took care of his mother, who was suffering from severe diabetes. At an early age, he learned to help others before himself, which proved to be the key to success in later life.
After the partition of India in 1947, his family migrated from India to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. In 1951 he bought a small shop with his savings and in the same shop he opened a small dispensary with the help of a doctor who taught him the basics of medical aid. You also encouraged your friends to teach here. You lived a simple life and slept on a bench in front of the dispensary so that you could get help immediately when needed.
In 1957, a massive flu epidemic broke out in Karachi, to which Edhi reacted immediately. They set up tents on the outskirts of the city and provided free immunizations. The benefactors generously helped him and the rest of Pakistan, seeing his work. With the grant money, she bought the entire building where the dispensary was located and opened a maternity center and a school to train nurses, and this was the beginning of the Edhi Foundation.
In the years that followed, the Edhi Foundation spread to the rest of Pakistan. In the aftermath of the flu outbreak, a businessman donated a large sum of money to Edhi to buy an ambulance, which he drove himself. Today, the Edhi Foundation has more than 600 ambulances, spread across the country. He travels to Karachi and inland Sindh to help, and the Edhi Foundation's response to accidents is faster and better than municipal services. In addition to hospital and ambulance services, the Edhi Foundation has opened clinics, maternity homes, insane asylums, homes for the disabled, blood banks, orphanages, adoption centers, shelters and schools. The foundation also offers nursing and homework courses. One of the features of Edhi Centers is that there is a baby carriage outside each Edhi Center so that a woman who cannot take care of her child can leave her child here. The Edhi Foundation shelters the child in its orphanage and provides him with a free education.
Abdul Sattar Edhi has received many international awards.
1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service
1988 Lenin Peace Prize
1992 Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International Foundation Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International Foundation
World's Largest Volunteer Ambulance Service - Guinness Book of World Records (2000)
Hamdan Award for General Medical Services 2000 UAE
Honorary Doctorate Degree from the Institute of Business Administration Karachi (2006)
UNESCO Madanjit Singh Award 2009
Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Award (2010)
The national awards are as follows.
Silver Jubilee Shield by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (1962–1987)
Government of Sindh Award for Social Worker for the Subcontinent (1989)
Nishan Imtiaz, a Government of Pakistan High Prize (1989)
Award for Outstanding Service by the Department of Health and Social Welfare, Government of Pakistan (1989)
Pakistan Civic Award by Pakistan Civic Society (1992)
Honorary Shield from the Pakistan Army
Service Award from Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences
Human Rights Award by Pakistani Human Rights Society
March 26, 2005 Life Time Achievement Award from World Memon Organization
Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away on July 8, 2016 at the age of 88 due to kidney failure. He had bequeathed before his death that both his eyes must be donated to the poor.
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