Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) (Urdu: پاکستان بیت المال‎) is a charity and social welfare organisation to help the poor and needy in Pakistan. PBM is a semi-autonomous body set up through a 1992 Act of the Government of Pakistan.[1][2]

Mission and objectives

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal significantly contributes to poverty alleviation through its various projects, including providing assistance to the destitute, widows, orphans, invalids, and other needy persons in the society.[1] It provides financial assistance to the needy with emphasis on rehabilitation. PBM is assisting the poor in a variety of areas with the government funds.[1][2]

Programs
  • Special Program that provides financial help to deserving poor people earning less than Rupees10,000 a month[1]
  • Educational assistance to the needy and orphans and financial aid for the non-affording and deserving students for higher professional education
  • Residential accommodation in shelter homes for the deserving homeless and abandoned elderly people[1]
  • Set up free hospitals and rehabilitation centers for the poor to provide free medical treatment
  • Financial aid and grants to charitable institutions with educational & vocational training programs[1]
  • Sponsor and promote self-employment schemes
  • Provide relief to the needy and poor during natural disasters[3][2]

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal also is the sponsor of Benazir Income Support Programme. It also provides money to poor and deserving students of almost all universities of Pakistan.[3][2]

References
  1. Bakhtawar Mian (25 July 2014). "Bait-ul-Mal launches special scheme to help the poor". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal asked to raise dowries for orphans". Dawn (newspaper). 20 March 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  3. "Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal to assist people with disabilities". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Associated Press of Pakistan (APP). 23 August 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
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