Visiting the Saylani Welfare Trust in Karachi

The Saylani Welfare Trust is a non-profit organisation that provides free food daily to needy and low income families twice a day. Saylani Welfare International Trust, which is known for providing free food to the homeless, is a listed NGO with its charity registration No. 1145851, established in May 1999 with its head office at Bahdurabad, Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded and headed by famous spiritual and religious scholar Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri. 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. Distribution of CNG rickshaws among the jobless citizens of Karachi in April, 2011 with the help of prominent business community of Karachi was the turning point in its popularity.