Dr Abdul Sattar Edhi, or Maulana Edhi, as he is often known, is one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan. He is head of the Edhi Foundation. His wife Bilquis Edhi, heads the Bilquis Edhi Foundation. They both received 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize. Maulana Edhi, as he is often referred to, is of the Memon community. Edhi was born in 1928 in Bantva in the Gujarat state of India. His father was a textile trader and earned a modest income fo ...

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• Abdul Sattar Edhi - Growth of Edhi Foundation
• Abdul Sattar Edhi - Modern Legacy

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In 1947 his family moved to Karachi in Pakistan after the Partition of India. In 1951 he used the money he saved up while he was looking after his mother to purchase a small shop. It was at this shop he opened a tiny dispensary with the help of a doctor who taught him basic medical care, he also encouraged his friends to give literacy classes inside. Edhi had spent his life a simple man, and would continue to do so, he would sleep on a concrete bench outside the dispensar ...

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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Starting Up, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Growth of Edhi Foundation, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Modern Legacy

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Today not just in Pakistan, but in the Muslim world, Abdul Sattar Edhi has earned a reputation as being one of the most selfless and honorable human beings today. Despite his fame and reputation he continues to lead a simple life, he wears traditional Pakistani Shalwar Kameez, of which he only owns one or two, and he owns one pair of slippers, of which he has supposedly worn for the last twenty years. This is despite the fact the Edhi Foundation has a $10 million budget, out of which he takes nothing for himself. His son Faisal once stated t ...

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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Starting Up, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Growth of Edhi Foundation, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Modern Legacy

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In the years that followed, Edhi Foundation grew through all of Pakistan. After the flu epidemic, a businessman donated a large sum to Edhi and with the money he purchased an ambulance vehicle which he drove himself. Today the Foundation has over 600 ambulances located all over the country. He himself continues to travel with call outs out of Karachi to the rest of the Sindh province, the response time and services the ambulances provide are renowned for being better than the municipal ones. Along with hospitals and and ambulance services, E ...

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Abdul Sattar Edhi, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Starting Up, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Growth of Edhi Foundation, Abdul Sattar Edhi - Modern Legacy

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