What Is 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 foundation is a NON Profit 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..

Edhi's founder is Abdul Sattar Edhi who established the first clinic in 1951.

Edhi Foundations Ideology

Edhi Foundation's activities include a 24 hours emergency service across the country through 250 Edhi centers which provide free shrouding and burial of unclaimed dead bodies, shelter for the destitutes, orphans and handicapped persons, free hospitals and dispensaries, rehabilitation of drug addicts, free wheel chairs, crutches and other services for the handicapped, family planning counseling and maternity services, national and international relief efforts for the victims.

Currently the Foundation is a home for over 6,000 destitutes, runaways and mentally ill, and it provides transportaion to over 1,000,000 persons annually to the hospitals, in addition to other wide ranging services.