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'''Bilquis Bano Edhi''' {{post-nominals|country=PAK|list=[[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI]]}} ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|بلقیس ایدھی}}}}; 14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a professional nurse and one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan along with serving as co-chair of [[Edhi Foundation]]. She has been named ''The Mother of Pakistan''.<ref name=times/> She was born in 1947 in [[Bantva]]. She used to head the Edhi Foundation, and with her husband received the 1986 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Public Service.<ref name=jazbah/><ref name=rmaf>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationEdhiAbd.htm Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423230700/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationEdhiAbd.htm |date=23 April 2011 }} accessed 30 June 2008</ref> In 2015, she received the [[Mother Teresa Awards|Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan's Bilquis Bano, Caretaker of Speech and Hearing Impaired Geeta and Gladys Staines Honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2015|url=http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/pakistans-bilquis-bano-caretaker-speech-hearing-impaired-geeta-gladys-staines-honoured-with-mother-teresa-memorial-international-award-social-justice-2015/46268|accessdate=10 August 2016|work=Business Wire India|date=23 November 2015}}</ref> Her charity runs many services in Pakistan including a hospital and emergency service in [[Karachi]]. Together with her husband their charity has saved over 16,000 unwanted babies.<ref name=times/> |
'''Bilquis Bano Edhi''' {{post-nominals|country=PAK|list=[[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI]]}} ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|بلقیس ایدھی}}}}; 14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a professional nurse and one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan along with serving as co-chair of [[Edhi Foundation]]. She has been named ''The Mother of Pakistan''.<ref name=times/> She was born in 1947 in [[Bantva]]. She used to head the Edhi Foundation, and with her husband received the 1986 [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for Public Service.<ref name=jazbah/><ref name=rmaf>[http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationEdhiAbd.htm Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423230700/http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationEdhiAbd.htm |date=23 April 2011 }} accessed 30 June 2008</ref> In 2015, she received the [[Mother Teresa Awards|Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan's Bilquis Bano, Caretaker of Speech and Hearing Impaired Geeta and Gladys Staines Honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2015|url=http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/pakistans-bilquis-bano-caretaker-speech-hearing-impaired-geeta-gladys-staines-honoured-with-mother-teresa-memorial-international-award-social-justice-2015/46268|accessdate=10 August 2016|work=Business Wire India|date=23 November 2015}}</ref> Her charity runs many services in Pakistan including a hospital and emergency service in [[Karachi]]. Together with her husband their charity has saved over 16,000 unwanted babies.<ref name=times/> |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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In 2022, Edhi was named among [[The Muslim 500]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilquis Edhi |url=https://themuslim500.com/profiles/edhi-bilquis/ |website=themuslim500.com}}</ref> |
In 2022, Edhi was named among [[The Muslim 500]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Bilquis Edhi |url=https://themuslim500.com/profiles/edhi-bilquis/ |website=themuslim500.com}}</ref> |
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Her husband, [[Abdul Sattar Edhi]], died on 8 July 2016. She died on 15 April 2022 in Karachi due to congestive heart failure after prolonged illness.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 April 2022 |title=Philanthropist Bilquis Edhi breathes her last in Karachi |work=The News International |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/950554-philanthropist-bilquis-edhi-breaths-last-in-karachi}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 02:54, 17 April 2022
Bilquis Edhi | |
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| بلقیس ایدھی | |
.jpg) Edhi in 2015 | |
| Born | 14 August 1947 |
| Died | 15 April 2022 (aged 74)[1] Karachi, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Occupation(s) | Nurse Philanthropist |
| Organization | Edhi Foundation |
| Office | Co-chair of Edhi Foundation |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Two sons and two daughters[2] |
Bilquis Bano Edhi HI (Template:Lang-ur; 14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a professional nurse and one of the most active philanthropists in Pakistan along with serving as co-chair of Edhi Foundation. She has been named The Mother of Pakistan.[2] She was born in 1947 in Bantva. She used to head the Edhi Foundation, and with her husband received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.[3][4] In 2015, she received the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice.[5] Her charity runs many services in Pakistan including a hospital and emergency service in Karachi. Together with her husband their charity has saved over 16,000 unwanted babies.[2]
Biography
When Edhi was a teenager she was not enjoying school and managed to join a small expanding dispensary as a nurse in 1965. At the time the Edhi home was in the old city area of Karachi known as Mithadar where it had been founded in 1951.[6] The small number of Christian and Hindu nurses who worked there had just reduced in number. The founder, Abdul Sattar Edhi, recruited a number of nurses including Bilquis who, unusually, was from a Muslim background.[3]
Her future husband proposed to her after recognizing her talents and allowing her to lead the small nursing department. He had recognized her enthusiasm and interest during her six-month training program where she had learned basic midwifery and healthcare. They were married when she was nineteen[3] and her husband was nineteen years older. Their honeymoon was unusual in that the newlyweds discovered a young girl with head injuries at their dispensary just after their wedding ceremony. Edhi said in 1989 that she did not regret the time lost in consoling the twelve-year-old's concerned relatives or supervising blood transfusions as now "... that girl is married with children; that's what is really important."[6] The Edhi Foundation's unofficial website uses the line "Making a difference and changing lives forever".[7]
Edhi took over the management of the jhoolas project, the first of which had been built by her husband in 1952. These 300 cradles are available throughout Pakistan where parents can abandon unwanted children or those that cannot be raised. They carry the message “Do not kill, leave the baby to live in the cradle” in English and Urdu. A small minority of abandoned children are disabled but over 90% are female. This alternative is thought to have reduced the number of dead babies who are killed by their own parents given the alternative provided by the Edhi Foundation to leave the unwanted babies in the cradles. The Edhi project is also responsible for burying dead babies found by the police.[2]
Recognition
Edhi and her husband had received a number of awards in recognition of their work. In July 2007, they were publicly recognized for their work by President Pervez Musharraf who made a contribution of 100,000 rupees (from his own pocket) and he particularly noted that their work provided social services to the poor of Pakistan without any discrimination.[8] This contribution contrasts sharply with another offered by President Zia ul-Haq which was turned down because of the strings that were attached. It also contrasts with the 100,000 dollars that her husband gave to Pakistani workers in the USA affected by the 9/11 bombing. Despite her husband being received by Presidents and her own appearance on Pakistani television[9] the couple lived modestly in a two-room apartment which is part of one of their orphanages.[2]
In 2022, Edhi was named among The Muslim 500.[10]
Her husband, Abdul Sattar Edhi, died on 8 July 2016. She died on 15 April 2022 in Karachi due to congestive heart failure after prolonged illness.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Bilquis Edhi passes away at 74". Geo News. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e The Child Catchers, Katharine Hibbert, TimesOnLine, 21 May 2006 accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ a b c Women of Pakistan – Bilquis Edhi Archived 8 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine, Faisal Abdulla, jazbah.org, accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ Ramon Magsaysay Award Citation Archived 23 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ "Pakistan's Bilquis Bano, Caretaker of Speech and Hearing Impaired Geeta and Gladys Staines Honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice 2015". Business Wire India. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ a b From humanitarian to a nation, By: Richard Covington, IslamiCity.com, accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ EdhiFoundation.com accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ President Musharraf donates RS 100,000 to Edhi foundation, PakTribune, 27 June 2008, accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ Bilquis Edhi in Brunch with Bushra – Pakistani TV Archived 5 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine accessed 30 June 2008
- ^ "Bilquis Edhi". themuslim500.com.
- ^ "Philanthropist Bilquis Edhi breathes her last in Karachi". The News International. 15 April 2022.
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