Saylani Welfare Trust

Saylani Welfare International Trust (Pakistan)
Founded May 1999
Founder Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri
Focus Emergency Services, Food to homeless, Education, Healthcare, Ambulance Services
Location
Area served
Social Welfare, Humanitarianism
Method Donations and Grants
Key people
 Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri
Website saylaniwelfare.com

Saylani Welfare International Trust is a Pakistani charity focusing primarily on feeding the homeless. It was established in May 1999 and is headquartered at Bahdurabad, Karachi, Pakistan.

It was founded and headed by famous spiritual and religious scholar Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri.[1][2] With an estimated monthly expenditure of Pakistani Rupees above 30 million, Saylani Trust, provides food twice a day to more than 30,000 poor people through its 100 centers (generally known as Dastar-Khawan), most of them are serving in Karachi.[3][4] Distribution of CNG rickshaws among the jobless citizens of Karachi in April, 2011 with the help of prominent business community of Karachi was the turning point in its popularity.[5]

Atomic Scientist of Pakistan, Dr. A.Q. Khan has commented in his published article that Saylani Welfare Org. is striving it’s hard to facilitate the people of Pakistan in every field of social wellbeing for the betterment of citizen of Pakistan and appreciated the job rendered by Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri and his enthusiastic associates working for humanitarian cause. He was invited to grace the occasion as Guest of honor to a seminar organized by the Saylani trust on the subject of Development of Agriculture in Pakistan, attended by prominent experts in Agriculture and Bio-technology.[6] Tools of check and balance with financial accountability are maintained on modern systems, all accounts are annually audited through authentic Chartered Accountant Firm.[7]

In July-2016, Saylani Welfare announced that trust will start 5 new projects: (1) Saylani University for women, (2) Flour distribution in Thar district of Sindh, (3) School project in Rural Sindh, (4) Saylani City for poor families; and (5) Saylani mobile shops, this project will provide at least 5,000 mobile shops, and a source of bread-earning to unemployed poor youths[8]

Medical institutions of Saylani

With its offices in Nottingham, UK, Saylani Welfare is responsible for carrying out fundraising campaigns as well as raising awareness of a range of charity projects. All donations are invested in sustainable projects and emergency campaigns in Pakistan. All welfare services by Saylani (NGO) are provided free of cost to everyone irrespective of their beliefs and political or social background. It offers following medical facilities at:[7]

  • (i) Saylani Chest Care Center, provides services to patients suffering from Tuberculosis
  • (ii) Saylani Diabetic Center, giving services to Diabetic patient with facilities for treatment of Hepatitis "C"

References

  1. ↑ Correspondent (20 January 2015). "For clean drinking water: Saylani Welfare plans to install 63 RO plants in the city". Express tribune. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Chaudhry, Javed (14 March 2014). "Ye hain Asal Musalman (These are true Muslims)" (in Urdu). Karachi, Pakistan: Daily Express Urdu.
  3. ↑ Shahab Nafees/Ali Haider (22 July 2014). "Quantum jump in donations to charities". The Daily Dawn. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  4. ↑ REUTERS (6 June 2013). "Visiting the Saylani Welfare Trust in Karachi". The Daily Dawn. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Abdul Ahad (24 April 2011). "Saylani distributes CNG rickshaws among jobless". Business Recorder. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (23 June 2014). "Development of agriculture". The Daily The News. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  7. 1 2 http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/saylani-welfare-international-trust-1109 retrieved: 23 March 2015
  8. ↑ Saadia Qamar (2 July 2016). "Saylani trust to kick off five new projects". Express Tribune. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
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