Abdul Sattar Edhi

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Abdul Sattar Edhi (2009)

Abdul Sattar Edhi ( Urdu عبد الستار ایدھی, Gujarati અબ્દુલ સત્તાર ઇદી; * 1928 in Bantva , British India ; † July 8, 2016 in Karachi , Pakistan ) was a Pakistani philanthropist .

He was the founder and director of the Edhi Foundation , the world's largest outpatient aid and charity organization. Together with his wife Bilquis Edhi , he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Prize for services of general interest , the “Asian Nobel Peace Prize”. He also received the Balzan Prize . Edhi belonged to the Muslim memonite community (English memons ).

Life

Edhi was born in Bantva, Gujarat , British India in 1928 . When his parents met, the father was twice widowed and the mother divorced. Edhi had several half-siblings. He left school at the age of 13 and sold samosa and matches as a street vendor for some time . At the same time he read newspapers and books, including a little Marx . After Pakistan was founded in 1947, his family immigrated to Karachi. The poverty in this city touched him so much that he began to buy medicines for the poor and to attend to the funerals of the poor who died on the streets.

In 1951 he bought a small shop in the Mithadar district in which, with the help of a doctor who taught him the basics of medical care, he opened a dispensary for the poor . In the same year he founded the Edhi Foundation named after him . The guiding principle of the Edhi Foundation, to help themselves is, is "Live and help to live" (English. Live and help live ).

Edhi met Bilquis Bano in 1965, whom he later married. She was an 18-year-old nurse when she first met and almost 20 years younger. They eventually married and Bilquis gave birth to two daughters and two sons, all of whom are involved in the foundation. The Edhis raised illegitimate and unwanted children, taught them, and looked for adoptive parents. Gradually there are more than 20,000 children cared for by the foundation. Hospitals, women's shelters, soup kitchens, homes for orphans, those difficult to educate, drug addicts and a cancer clinic were added later. At the beginning of his career, Edhi was criticized by a Muslim aid organization for helping everyone, including Christians and Hindus. Edhi responded with the statement: "It is my job to save lives without discriminating."

Edhi died of kidney failure in July 2016 at the age of 88 .

Honors and prizes

International

National

  • Silver Jubilee Shield of the College of Physicians and Surgeons , Pakistan, (1962–1987)
  • Social workers of the subcontinent (Engl. The Social Worker of Sub-Continent ) by the Government of Sindh , Pakistan, (1989)
  • Nishan-e-Imtiaz , Civil Order of the Pakistani Government (1989)
  • Recognition of meritorious services to oppressed humanity in the 1980s by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Pakistan Government (1989)
  • Pakistan Civic Award from the Pakistan Civic Society (1992)
  • Shield of Honor of the Pakistani Army (E&C)
  • Khidmat Award from the Pakistan Academy of Medicine
  • Human Rights Award of the Pakistan Human Rights Society

Web links

Commons : Abdul Sattar Edhi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Saito: The World's Greatest Living Humanitarian May Be From Pakistan . Huffington Post , May 6, 2013, accessed July 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Mukhtar Alam: IBA awards doctorate to Sattar Edhi. DAWN Internet Edition, November 12, 2006, accessed July 10, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Daniel Meier: A good person . In: NZZ am Sonntag . July 17, 2016, p. 14 .
  4. ↑ Hasnain Kazim: Pakistan's greatest helper - Father Teresa. Spiegel Online , January 27, 2011, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  5. ^ Richard Covington: From Humanitarian to a Nation. IslamiCity, May 12, 2004, accessed February 11, 2011 .
  6. ^ Saadia Qamar: Abdul Sattar Edhi passes away. The Express Tribune (Pakistan), July 8, 2016, accessed July 10, 2016 .
  7. ^ The 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service: Citation for Abdul Sattar Edhi and Bilqis Bano Edhi. Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, August 31, 1986, archived from the original on April 23, 2011 ; accessed on July 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l International and National Awards. Edhi Foundation, August 8, 2010, archived from the original on May 20, 2011 ; accessed on July 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Edhi, Abdul Sattar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bantva , British India
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 2016
Place of death Karachi , Pakistan