AMAZING FACTS

ABOUT HUMAN
BODY
Your nose can
remember
50,000
Different
scents.
Humans shed
about
600,000
particles of
skin
every hour
There are
100,000 miles
of blood
vessels in an
adult human
body
Your body has
enough iron in
it to make a
metal nail 3
inches long.
The strongest
muscle in the
human body is
the masseter
(jaw muscle).
Sweat itself is
odorless. It's
the bacteria
on the skin that mingles
with it and produces
body odor.
Similar to
fingerprints,
everyone also
has a Unique
Tongue Print.
ABDUL SATTAR
EDHI
A LEGEND IN
HUMAN SERVICE
EDHI
Abdul Sattar Edhi (1 January 1928– 8 July 2016) was a
prominent Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and
humanitarian. He was the founder and head of the Edhi
Foundation in Pakistan and ran the organization for the better
part of six decades. He was known as Angel of Mercy and was
considered Pakistan's "most respected" and legendary figure. In
2013, The Huffington Post said that he might be "the world's
greatest living humanitarian."
Revered by many as a national hero, Edhi created a charitable
empire out of nothing. He masterminded Pakistan’s largest
welfare organisation almost single-handedly, entirely with
private donations. To many, Edhi was known as the “Father
Teresa” of Pakistan.
Edhi was born around 1928 in Bantva in the Gujarat, British
India. His mother would give him 1 paisa for his meals and
another to give to a beggar.[14] When he was eleven, his mother
became paralyzed from a stroke and she died when Edhi was 19.
His personal experiences and care for his mother during her
illness, caused him to develop a system of services for old,
mentally ill and challenged people. The partition of India led Edhi
and his family to migrate to Pakistan in 1947. He then shifted to
Karachi to work in a market at a wholesale shop. He initially
started as a peddler, and later became a commission agent
selling cloth in the wholesale market in Karachi. After a few
years, he established a free dispensary with help from his
community.

He told NPR in 2009 that "I saw people lying on the pavement...
The flu had spread in Karachi, and there was no one to treat
them. So I set up benches and got medical students to volunteer.
I was penniless and begged for donations on the street. And
people gave. I bought this 8-by-8 room to start my work.
Edhi resolved to dedicate his life to aiding the poor, and over the
next sixty years, he single handedly changed the face of welfare
in Pakistan. Edhi founded the Edhi Foundation. Additionally, he
established a welfare trust, named the Edhi Trust with an initial
sum of a five thousand rupees which was later renamed as Bilqis
Edhi Trust. Regarded as a guardian for the poor, Edhi began
receiving numerous donations, which allowed him to expand his
services. To this day, the Edhi Foundation continues to grow in
both size and service, and is currently the largest welfare
organisation in Pakistan. Since its inception, the Edhi Foundation
has rescued over 20,000 abandoned infants, rehabilitated over
50,000 orphans and has trained over 40,000 nurses. It also runs
more than 330 welfare centres in rural and urban Pakistan which
operate as food kitchens, rehabilitation homes, shelters for
abandoned women and children and clinics for the mentally
handicapped.

The Edhi Foundation, founded by Edhi, runs the world's largest

ambulance service (operating 1,500 of them) and offers 24-hour
emergency services. It also operates free nursing homes,
orphanages, clinics, women's shelters, and rehab centres for
drug addicts and mentally ill individuals. It has run relief
operations in Africa, Middle East, the Caucasus region, eastern
Europe and United States where it provided aid following
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. His son Faisal Edhi, wife Bilquis Edhi
and daughters managed the daily operations of the organization
during his ill health. He was referred as Pakistan's version of
Mother Teresa, and the BBC wrote that he was considered
"Pakistan's most respected figure and was seen by some as
almost a saint.
Personal Life
Edhi was married in 1965 to Bilquis, a nurse who worked at the
Edhi dispensary. The couple had four children, two daughters
and two sons. Bilquis runs the free maternity home at the
headquarters in Karachi and organizes the adoption of
abandoned babies including those born out of wedlock. Edhi was
known for his ascetic lifestyle, owning only two pairs of clothes,
never taking a salary from his organisation and living in an
apartment next to his organization's office.
On 25 June 2013, Edhi's kidneys failed; it was announced that
he would be on dialysis for the rest of his life unless he found a
kidney donor. Edhi died on 8 July 2016 at the age of 88 due to
kidney failure after having been placed on a ventilator. His last
wishes included the request that his organs were to be donated
but due to his ill health, only his corneas were suitable. He was
laid to rest at the Edhi Village Karachi.
Green Crescent Trust

AN NGO IN PUBLIC SERVICE

Green Crescent Trust (GCT) is a non-profit organization in
Sindh, Pakistan that focuses on education and development. It
was established in 1995 by group of people with just one goal:
making a better Pakistan through education. It started out with
just one school and handful of students in Karachi.

Today, GCT aims to making schools a reality for deserving

children in underprivileged areas of Sindh. It has expanded their
schools network making them more accessible to these children.
Introduction
GCT is a professional non-profit organization operated by
professionals under the supervision of the Board of Trustees,
which runs schools in underprivileged areas of Sindh for the boys
and girls in the rural and urban areas. The founders took this
initiative with a very few number of students.

Now with the same passion and enthusiasm, bestowed on that

first school, GCT has managed to expand their journey of
education and expended their chain of schools in all over Sindh.
GCT aims to bring a behavioral change in the communities
regarding quality education, community building, and motivation
and providing opportunities to bring enhancements in their daily
lives. For that they have expanded their services in Orphan
Support Program, Centre for Educational Research and
Development (CERD) for teachers training and Development,
The Water Project for the people of Tharparkar.

It is profoundly difficult in rural areas of Sindh to encourage

families to gain education, especially for females. Hence, to
achieve this, GCT hires the female staff from within the
community and trains them for community mobilization, which
greatly helps in convincing the parents to send their children to
school. GCT has managed to increase female ratio from 20% to
40% in last 3 years.
HILAL PUBLIC SCHOOL
Hilal Public School System (HPSS) run by GCT since 1995 was
initiated with just one school. HPSS is a network of curriculum-
based schools providing subsidized education to underprivileged
children across Sindh. HPSS is running 145 schools successfully
all over the Sindh with more than 1200 teachers and 35,000
students.
Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD)
is the professional training and development center for Teachers
and Parents. CERD is providing training to all the GCT Teachers
and Parents to bring about a substantial change in their lives
through Education. CERD also provides training to other NGOs,
Non-Profit Organizations and Charities.
WATER PROJECT
Water is one of the main and basic essences of every human.
People of Tharparkar (Sindh, Pakistan) are starving for water,
not only for them and their families, but also for the cattle they
breed as their means of livelihood. The females of Tharparkar
travel a minimum of 3 KM daily in scorching heat for search of
water for their families.
GCT realized the need of water, when they found out that most
of students of HPSS, are not in good health in the Tharparkar
region. They took the initiative in 2014 and up till now the GCT
has installed 350 water projects, which covers almost 90,000
beneficiaries. Every village now has their own project, providing
a safe reliable source of water right outside their homes.
Orphan Support Program (OSP) with the help of donors to
help fulfilling the need of education, ethical and moral, health
and sustenance need of orphans. Under OSP more than 1000
Orphans are getting supported. The four main elements are:
Subsistence: monthly ration, clothes, hygiene kits
Education: school fee, books, stationary, uniforms, shoes
Health: proper medical checkups, referrals
Social Activities: picnics, visits to amusement places, confidence
building, art and creativity encouragement.
GCT BANK
GCT along with quality education also provides the necessities of
education to the deserving students. GCT Book Bank is the
program in which books are purchased for the students who
could not afford them.

These books are then laminated and made a hard cover, which
increases their lifespan to 3 to 4 years, ensuring recycling and
avoiding paper waste.
DONOTIONS
Being a non-profit organization, the main source of income is
from donations, with most of the sources coming from Pakistan,
which included corporate and development sectors.
Almost 70% of the donations are utilized in education like
building and running schools, providing basic equipment,
computer and science labs, library books, uniforms and course
books. The rest of the donations include 20% in OSP, CERD and
Water Project and 10% is allocated for administration cost.
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