Saylani Welfare Trust

Saylani Welfare International Trust is a Pakistani charity focusing primarily on feeding the homeless. It was established in May 1999 and is headquartered at Bahdurabad, Karachi, Pakistan.

Saylani Welfare International Trust (Pakistan)
FoundedMay 1999
Founder—Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri —
FocusEmergency Services, Food to homeless, Education, Healthcare, Ambulance Services
Location
Area served
Social Welfare, Humanitarianism
MethodDonations and Grants
Key people
Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri
Websitesaylaniwelfare.com

It was founded and headed by spiritual and religious scholar Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri.[1][2] With an estimated monthly expenditure of Pakistani Rupees above 30 million, Saylani Trust, provides food twice a day to more than 30,000 poor people through its 100 centers (generally known as Dastar-Khawan), most of them are serving in Karachi.[3][4] The organization distributed CNG rickshaws among the jobless citizens of Karachi in April, 2011 with the help of members of the Karachi business community.[5]

Medical institutions of Saylani

With its offices in Nottingham, UK, Saylani Welfare raises funds, as well as raising awareness of a range of charity projects. Services by Saylani (NGO) are provided free of cost. It offers following medical facilities at:[6]

  • (i) Saylani Chest Care Center, provides services to patients suffering from Tuberculosis
  • (ii) Saylani Diabetic Center, giving services to Diabetic patient with facilities for treatment of Hepatitis "C"

Charitable initiatives

Saylani, since its inception, has worked on both, providing needed economic and nutritional help to the needy in distress as well as providing means for able persons to earn a living through innovative solutions to "tackle the root causes and effects of poverty of Pakistani citizens." This ranges anywhere from programs similar to those provided by Social Security in Western nations to doing area to area and neighborhood to neighborhood search of the needy and providing relief.[7] Notable among these programs are:

Roti Bank

The Roti Bank provides free meals to needy families in a simple walk-up kiosk along a main thoroughfare in Karachi. After providing their identification, details of family size (via birth certificates) and getting the Saylani "Free Food Card", the families can get 2 meals per day for a month.[8][9] The initiative was launched on 14 August 2018.[10]

Economic empowerment

In 2013, in an effort to create economic empowerment via training in Technology, especially Web and Mobile App development, Saylani Welfare International Trust began its Saylani Mass IT Training (SMIT) Program.  Under the guidance of Zia Ullah Khan,[11] who have previously ran successful mass IT programs like “Operation Badar”.[12]  The goal of SMIT was to create 10,000 well-trained Web and Mobil App developers in emerging programming languages like React, Node JS and Angular JS.[13] The program thus far have trained 4,000 developers successfully in as varied a fields as Cisco’s CCNA certification, Graphic Design, and Startup Entrepreneurship along with the Web and Mobile App development skills to spur economic empowerment and  allow its graduates to quickly become economically independent.[14]

Saylani, in partnership with Panacloud (Pvt.), Ltd, and Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), helped run a public-private partnership called the Presidential Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Computing (PIAIC) under the directive of the President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi. Zia Ullah Khan is at its helm as the Chief Operating Officer.

COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, reports emerged that rations were being denied to minority Hindus and Christians in the coastal areas of Karachi. The Saylani Welfare Trust, carrying out the relief work, said that the aid was reserved for Muslims alone.[15][16] On 14 April, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom expressed concern with the discrimination. Other organisations, including Edhi Foundation, JDC Welfare Organization and Jamaat-e-Islami are reported to have stepped forward to provide relief to the minorities.[17]

References
  1. Correspondent (20 January 2015). "For clean drinking water: Saylani Welfare plans to install 63 RO plants in the city". Express tribune. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  2. Chaudhry, Javed (14 March 2014). "Ye hain Asal Musalman (These are true Muslims)" (in Urdu). Karachi, Pakistan: Daily Express Urdu.
  3. Shahab Nafees/Ali Haider (22 July 2014). "Quantum jump in donations to charities". The Daily Dawn. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  4. REUTERS (6 June 2013). "Visiting the Saylani Welfare Trust in Karachi". The Daily Dawn. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. Abdul Ahad (24 April 2011). "Saylani distributes CNG rickshaws among jobless". Business Recorder. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  6. http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/saylani-welfare-international-trust-1109 retrieved: 23 March 2015
  7. Mughal, Mohammad Ali (13 April 2020). "Live video of distribution of ration". Facebook.
  8. Aslam, Haroon. "Roti Bank Provides Free Meals to the Underprivileged in Karachi". Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  9. Tribune.com.pk (20 November 2017). "Roti Bank: Taking from the rich and giving to the poor". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  10. "The Roti Bank—Karachi". Research Snipers. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  11. "Another 1000s-Software-developers-factory Initiative by Saylani welfare NGO". Pakistan Defence. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  12. "About". Operation Badar. 31 December 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  13. "IT training: 6,500 candidates appear in entrance exam". Business Recorder. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  14. "'No solution to child labour possible without appreciating ground realities'". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  15. COVID-19: Hindus denied food supplies in Pakistan's Karachi Archived 3 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Business Standard, 30 March 2020.
  16. Shafique Khokhar, Coronavirus: Karachi NGO denies food to poor Hindus and Christians, Asia News (Italy), 30 March 2020.
  17. USCIRF says ‘troubled’ by denial of food to Pakistani Hindus, Christians amid Covid-19 crisis, Hindustan Times, 14 April 2020.
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