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RIP Abdul Sattar Edhi. Our great philanthropist passed away in Karachi today (July 8, 2016).
Edhi Foundation runs the world's largest ambulance service and operates free nursing homes, orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centers for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals.
The Edhi Foundation runs hundreds of welfare centers in rural and urban Pakistan which operate as food kitchens, rehabilitation homes, shelters for abandoned women and children and clinics for the mentally handicapped.
A prominent philanthropist, humanitarian and social activist, Abdul Sattar Edhi has been running the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan for almost six decades. The foundation owns and operates a large ambulance service, free nursing homes, orphanages, clinics, women’s shelters, food kitchens, and rehabilitation centers for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals all across the country.
The philanthropist was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2013 but has been unable to get a transplant due to frail health.
The philanthropist was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2013 but has been unable to get a transplant due to frail health.
By Aslam Chandio
