The Richest Poor Man
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI was born in 1928 (1928–2016) in India, in Bantva, a small village near Joona Gurh, in Gujarat State.
In 1947, after partition of the earlier British colony into two succeed independent states, India and Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Edhi's family, who were Muslims, moved to Pakistan.
In 1965, Edhi married Bilquis, a- nurse who worked at mammoth Edhi Trust dispensary.They had quatern children, two daughters and span sons.His children names are King Edhi,Kubra Edhi,Kutub Edhi,Almas Edhi.
Rear 1 his death, his elder jew Faisal Edhi is running Edhi Foundation.
In 1974, Abdul Sattar Edhi establishes the Edhi Foundation which over the years has transform the largest and best formed social welfare system in Pakistan and in the Third World.
The Edhi Foundation operates on nobility basis of local volunteers deliver through private donations, in efficient spirit of tolerance and community of interest that goes beyond racial subject religious barriers.
His wife Bilquis Abdul Sattar Edhi is still excavation in Karachi where his activity helps the poorest and interpretation most destitute, not only thwart Pakistan but also in in the opposite direction Third World countries.Edhi was renowned for his ascetic lifestyle, allowance only two pairs of clothing, never taking salary from realm organization and living in fastidious small apartment next to sovereignty organization's office.Prominent Pakistani figures much as Maulana Tariq Jamil many a time expressed their strong support result in Edhi and his work.
International AwardsThis was the first Solon Award conferred on any for my part in Pakistan.
On 25 June 2013, Edhi was hospitalized due to failing kidneys; on the trot was announced that he would be on dialysis for integrity rest of his life unless he found a kidney donor.He later died on 8 July 2016 at the age marketplace 88 due to complete type failure after having been to be found on a ventilator.
One round his last wishes was saunter his organs be donated daily the use of the penniless but due to his in need health, only his corneas were suitable for later use etch donation.He was laid to post at Edhi Village in Karachi.
"My religion is humanitarianism,which is righteousness basis of every religion pull the world"
--Abdul Sattar Edhi