Chhipa Welfare Association, commonly known as Chhipa, is a Pakistani non-profit welfare organization founded in 2007 by

Ramzan Chhipa Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa ( ur, ) is a Pakistani philanthropist and social worker based in Karachi, Pakistan. He is the founder of Chhipa Welfare Association, an NGO in Pakistan known for its social work and the second largest fleet of ambulances ...

. It is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. The

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at Bohri Bazaar led

to found Chhipa Welfare Association. Its stated mission is a strong commitment to serving the people without discrimination of any caste, creed or colour under all circumstances, where frequent road accidents, sudden events, and emergencies occur daily. The Chhipa Welfare Association is a non-governmental organization in Pakistan. Its activities include financial aid and free or low-cost food to people with low income. The general public, philanthropists and the business community supports this organization with their donations. The services include: * Chhipa

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* Chhipa Dastarkhawan *Chhipa Orphanage * Chhipa Home * Chhipa Morgue * Chhipa Kitchen * Chhipa Monthly Ration Bag * Chhipa Ritual Bathing Room * Chhipa Free Ghusal & Kaffan * Chhipa Mobile Morgue * Chhipa Graveyard * Chhipa Jhoola * Chhipa Newborn Home * Chhipa Old Home * Chhipa Women Shelter Home

Activities

Ambulances

The Chhipa Welfare Association runs a number of ambulance centres in Karachi. The ambulances are basic vans with room for a stretcher, for transportation to a hospital but without any medical staff in the ambulance.(Hasan Mansoor
Emergency response
Dawn (newspaper), Published 21 July 2013, Retrieved 14 May 2021 CHHIPA AMBULANCE. The humanitarian services of Chhipa Welfare Association, with a large fleet of dedicated fleet of ambulances, staffed by paramedics and equipped with a first aid box and an oxygen cylinder, spread over Chhipa Ambulance Emergency Centres located at prominent places, at various road roundabouts and near hospitals across the city of Karachi and other regions of Pakistan, on alert––around the clock all year around––for providing immediate help and assistance to the needy, the seriously injured victims of road accidents, train collisions, disasters and calamities, shifting the sick and emergency patients, rushing them to hospitals and medical facilities. While the responding time is within 05 minutes, which further initiates the rescue operation without any delay. Normally, Chhipa Ambulances––24 hours/7 days a week––remain engaged on roads in lifting and shifting the seriously injured victims of road accidents, the needy, the sick, burnt out and severed body parts, emergency patients, partially decomposed and unidentified, decomposed and mutilated bodies, lying in drains and sewers, dead bodies––to

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

s & medical centres in attempts to save the valuable human lives, all taken care off by Chhipa

Volunteers Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve ...

Palna

The association provides a means for people who are unable to care for their newborn children to give them up for adoption, as an alternative to abandoning the child, and to lessen the risk of infanticide. The ambulance centers include a ''palna'' (lit. "cradle") where people can leave their babies; the Chhipa Association can then arrange for the infant to be adopted. Social worker

is the first legal guardian until after a married childless couple is handed the

infant An infant or baby is the very young offspring of human beings. ''Infant'' (from the Latin word ''infans'', meaning 'unable to speak' or 'speechless') is a formal or specialised synonym for the common term ''baby''. The terms may also be used to ...

for

adoption Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and responsibilities, along with filiation, from ...

. Chhipa Welfare Association maintains the complete record and the legality of all such unwanted children that are placed in Chhipa Jhoola. After the married childless couple has been selected, the child is then handed over to them in a simple adoption ceremony at the Chhipa

Head Office Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States, the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top ...

. After that social worker

regularly visits the homes of the adopting parents and monitors the well-being and upbringing of the adopted child.

Sacrificial animals

The ambulance centers also accept animals that have been sacrificed on the occasion of a child's birth (

Aqiqah ʾAqīqah (), aqeeqa, or aqeeqah is the Islamic tradition of the sacrifice of an animal on the occasion of a child's birth. Aqiqah is a type of '' sadaqah'' and it is also ''sunnah'', though not obligatory. Description According to hadith and the ...

) or as other forms of voluntary charity (

Sadaqah or Sadqah ( ar, صدقة , "charity", "benevolence", plural ' ) in the modern context has come to signify "voluntary charity". According to the Quran, the word means voluntary offering, whose amount is at the will of the "benefactor". Etymolo ...

). These sacrifices are prepared as food for people with low-income.

Home & Orphanage

This welfare association provides the free home & orphanage. * CHHIPA HOME FOR NEWBORN * CHHIPA ORPHANAGE * CHHIPA OLD HOME * CHHIPA WOMEN SHELTER.

Awards

* On 23 March 2013,

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Governor Dr Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan conferred Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) to

for his social welfare work. * On 22 June 2013,

received the

Gold Medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

by the

Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry Since its inception in 1950, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) has advocated and voiced the collective opinion, concern and aspiration of the private sector and offered helpful advice and solid assistance to the Gove ...

(FPCCI) Achievement Award for his work with the Chhipa Welfare Association. * Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Karachi and

Governor of Sindh The governor of Sindh is the appointed head of the province of Sindh, Pakistan. The office of the governor as the head of the province is largely a ceremonial position; the executive powers lie with the Chief Minister of Sindh, chief minister and t ...

for his Social Welfare Services in 2014.Ramzan Chhipa conferred honorary DLitt degree (by the University of Karachi)
The News International (newspaper), Published 16 November 2014, Retrieved 14 May 2021

References

External links

* {{Pakistani NGOs Welfare agencies Organisations based in Karachi Social welfare charities based in Pakistan Humanitarian aid organizations Ambulance services in Pakistan