Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) is a
non-governmental international relief and welfare
organisation and a branch of
Minhaj-ul-Quran International. It was founded on 17 October 1989 by
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, and registered in the UK.
MWF's projects can be divided into four major categories:
education,
health care
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...
,
emergency aid
Emergency management or disaster management is the managerial function charged with creating the framework within which communities reduce vulnerability to hazards and cope with disasters. Emergency management, despite its name, does not actuall ...
and
welfare support.
Selected works
* 70,000 free eye-medical treatments.
* Relief work in the Swat and Malakand division by providing relief aid. This included temporary shelters, medical dispensaries, educational establishments and food packets. Minhaj Welfare Foundation has publicly vowed that it will not stop the relief work in Swat until every migrant has returned home.
* Emergency relief in response to the
2010 Pakistan floods
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's tot ...
, Cyclone Sidr (Bangladesh), tsunami (Indonesia), Sudan, Gaza Crisis, SWAT valley.
*Each year MWF helps to organise and manage the second largest
Itekaaf (Spiritual Retreat during Ramadan) in the whole world after the one in Makkah and Madina.
*In Pakistan, MWF was the first charity in the history of the country to arrange and fund collective-marriage ceremonies for the needy.
* Aghosh Orphan Care Home.
Minhaj Foundation to give orphanage to 500 orphans
References
External links
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{{Minhaj-ul-Quran International
Minhaj-ul-Quran
Non-profit organisations based in Pakistan
Social welfare charities
Organizations established in 1988
Emergency organizations
Foundations based in Pakistan