Did anyone catch it on Atiqa’s program?
He’s such a nice person.
He talked bout a lot of stuff. He’s nice, I like him.
Why arent there more ppl like him around?
Here’s a bit i found on his website bout him
Abdul Sattar Edhi
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Abdul Sattar Edhi was born in 1931 in a small village of Bantva near Jhoona garh, Gujrat (India). When Edhi was at the sensitive age of eleven, his mother became paralyzed and later got mentally ill. The battle against the disease finally resulted in a failure and her persistent sorrowful condition left a permanent impact on Edhi. His studies were also seriously affected and he could not complete his high school level.
Edhi’s mother died when he was 19. His personal experience made him think of thousands and millions, in misery like his mother. Even at this early age, he felt personally responsible for taking on the challenge of developing a system of services to reduce human miseries.
Edhi and his family migrated to Pakistan in 1947. After a couple of years, he became involved in the charity work. However, soon his personal vision of a growing and developing system of services made him decide to establish a welfare trust of his own and named it as “Edhi Trust”. He made an appeal to the public for funds and he was able to raise RS 2,00,000. The range and scope of work of Edhi trust expanded with remarkable speed under the driving spirit of the man behind it.
Abdul Sattar Edhi began his organization in 1948 by shifting injured people to hospitals, and has since then developed a service which attracts funds of $5 million per year , with no government assistance. His radio-linked network includes 500 ambulances throughout Pakistan, and he has also set up 300 relief centres, 3 air ambulances , 24 hospitals, 3 drug rehabilitation centres, women’s centres, free dispensaries, adoption programmes and soup kitchens that feed 100,000 people a month. he has paid for and supervised the training of 17,000 nurses. The ambulance service even picks up corpses, and the organization arranges Muslim burials.
[This message has been edited by Anchal (edited July 18, 2002).]