In Pakistan we have Edhi with all his works from feeding, providing medical care to caring for unwanted children as well as unwanted elder grandparents....
Dr. Abdul Sattar Edhi,
NI,
LPP,
RMA,
IBP,
GPA,
MSP (
Memoni,
Urdu: عبدالستار ایدھی,
Gujarati:
અબ્દુલ સત્તાર ઇદી), or
Maulana Edhi, is a prominent
Pakistani philanthropist,
social activistand
humanitarian. He is the founder and head of the
Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organization in Pakistan. Together with his wife,
Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also the recipient of the
Lenin Peace Prize and the
Balzan Prize. In 2006,
Institute of Business Administration Pakistan conferred an honoris causa degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the
University of Bedfordshire. In 1985 Edhi received the
Nishan-e-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan. On January 1, 2014, Eidhi was voted
Person of the year 2013 by the readers of
The Express Tribune.
He was born in 1928, in the city of
Bantva in what is now western India. Edhi's first interaction with human suffering occurred at the age of eleven, when his mother was physically paralyzed and later suffered from mental illness. Edhi spent his waking hours caring for her, and her worsening health and eventual death left a lasting impact on his life. In 1947, at the age of 19, Mr. Edhi's family was forced to flee their hometown and relocate to
Karachi. Finding himself in a new city without any resources, Edhi resolved to dedicate his life to aiding the poor, and over the last sixty years, he has single handedly changed the face of welfare in Pakistan. Edhi founded the Edhi Foundation, with an initial sum of a mere five thousand rupees. Regarded as a guardian for the poor, Edhi began receiving numerous donations, which allowed him to expand his services. To this day, the Edhi Foundation continues to grow in both size and service, and is currently the largest welfare organization in
Pakistan. Since its inception, the Edhi Foundation has rescued over 20,000 abandoned
infants, rehabilitated over 50,000
orphans and has trained over 40,000 nurses. It also runs over three hundred and thirty welfare centers in rural and urban Pakistan which operate as food kitchens, rehabilitation homes, shelters for abandoned women and children and clinics for the mentally handicapped.
Edhi has remained a simple and humble man. To this day, he owns two pairs of clothes, has never taken a salary from his organization and lives in a small two bedroom apartment over his clinic in
Karachi. He has been recommended for a
Nobel Peace prize by the
Prime Minister of Pakistan. On June 25, 2013 Edhi’s kidneys failed and it was announced that he will be on dialysis for the rest of his life, unless he finds a kidney donor.
If 1 man can make such an enormous difference how can this idea be wrong?
i personally support a two child policy for each and every family in india.
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Himanshu Pandey what say?
good for you! In China they had a 1 child policy when the earthquake killed that 1 child many realized this was not a good idea...