As the country’s inflation rate rises, more and more low-income families are being forced to send their kids to the Edhi Foundation, a local orphanage in Pakistan.
It is worth mentioning that Edhi Foundation being one of the principal rescue-and-aid organizations helping people across Pakistan. Edhi Foundation’s services touch every part of Pakistan. From roadside accidents to national catastrophes, personal funeral transportation to communal tragedies, regular emergency services to being the first responder in largescale disasters, Edhi ambulances and rescue teams are the nationwide icons of the nobility of serving humanity.
Aman, in charge of Edhi Child Home, told MM News that the parents are so desperate that they tell their relatives that their children are enrolled in a hostel in order to cover their guilt after sending their children to Edhi Child Home.
“We have 48 children between the ages of 5 and 12,” Aman stated. “When the children get older, we transfer them to the Adult Home,” he added, noting that the majority of the employees are women who take care of the children, feed them, and handle their schoolwork as well as other social and sporting activities.
He added that the charity is not involved in the search for missing children and that Edhi Home receives the majority of missing children cases.
“Most lost children come to us through the police, and provided the police find their parents, they are returned home through the authorities,” he said “However, occasionally regular people locate a lost child and bring them to our institution.”
“They are also kids whose parents have left them here,” he continued “We have a thorough record on every child. And the parents are the only ones who receive the child.”
Only missing children are permitted to be photographed, he added, and the organization forbids taking photos of children who have been sent to the orphanage by their parents because people sometimes post pictures on social media.
Aman appealed to the masses to donate as much as they can as Edhi Foundation is struggling in recent months.
He continued, “There are Edhi Centres all over Karachi that also collect donations. We have about 1200 people in the Super Highway Centre and 1600 women in the Nagan Chowrangi Centre, in addition to old houses, children’s homes, and homes for mental patients.”
