Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI (Urdu: عبد الستار ایدھی, Gujarati: અબ્દુલ સત્તાર ઇદી) or Edhi, as he often called, is a philanthropist of Pakistan. He is the head of the Edhi Foundation, a worldwide operator of ambulance services and help charity. With his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he was awarded the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. Edhi is a Muslim community Memon. On September 22, 2010 Edhi received an honorary degree of Ph.D. at the University of Bedfordshire.

Edhi was born in 1928 in Gujarat Bantva India.His British family moving to Karachi, Pakistan in 1947 and in 1951 bought a small shop, where he opened a small pharmacy by a doctor who taught him basic medical care.

Edhi Foundation operates the world's largest outpatient services and acts as a free old-age homes, orphanages, hospitals, women's shelters, rehabilitation centers, drug addicts and the mentally ill individuals.It has run relief operations in Africa, the Middle East , the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and in the United States, where he helped to support the New Orleans after the hurricane of 2005.