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Abdul Sattar Edhi, NI (Memoni, ) is a prominent Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian. He is the founder and head of the Edhi Foundation. Together with his wife, Bilquis Edhi, he received the 1986 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. He is also the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize and the Balzan Prize. In 2006, Institute of Business Administration Pakistan conferred an honoris causa degree of Doctor of Social Service Management for his services. In September 2010, Edhi was also awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate by the University of Bedfordshire.〔http://dawn.com/2012/06/15/abdul-sattar-edhi-under-taliban-threat/〕 In 1985 Edhi received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz from the Government of Pakistan.〔http://www.the-south-asian.com/february2002/AbdulSattarEdhi-social_worker.htm〕 On 1 January 2014, Edhi was voted Person of the year 2013 by the readers of ''The Express Tribune''.〔(Tribune person of the year 2013: Your vote, our hero )〕 Abdul Sattar Edhi has been running the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan for the better part of six decades. The foundation owns and operates a large ambulance service, free nursing homes, orphanages, clinics, women’s shelters, food kitchens, and rehabilitation centers for drug addicts and mentally ill individuals all across the country. Edhi has remained a simple and humble man. To this day, he owns two pairs of clothes, has never taken a salary from his organisation and lives in a small two bedroom apartment over his clinic in Karachi.〔〔http://www.nation.com.pk/Pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/karachi/14-Mar-2013/edhi-appeals-zardari-obama-for-aafia-s-release〕 He has been recommended for a Nobel Peace prize by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. On 25 June 2013 Edhi's kidneys failed and it was announced that he will be on dialysis for the rest of his life, unless he finds a kidney donor.〔http://tribune.com.pk/story/568148/edhi-suffers-from-kidney-failure-to-stay-on-dialysis-rest-of-his-life/〕 ''The Guardian'' called him 'a legendary charity worker known for his asceticism'.〔('They call him an infidel': Pakistan's humble founder of a charity empire )〕 He has been called the greatest living humanitarian in the world. () ==Early life== Edhi was born in 1928 in Bantva in the Gujarat, British India.〔 〕 When he was eleven, his mother became paralysed and her brain veins smashed and she died when he was 19. His personal experiences caused him to develop a system of services for old, mentally ill and challenged people. Edhi and his family migrated to Pakistan in 1947. He then shifted to Karachi to work in a market at a whole sale shop. His mother would give him 1 paisa for his daily eat and another to give to a begger. He initially started as a pedlar, later became a commission agent selling cloth in the wholesale market in Karachi. After a few years, he established a free dispensary with the help from his community. He later established a welfare trust, "Edhi Trust". Abdul Sattar Edhi was married in 1965 to Bilquis, a nurse who worked at the Edhi dispensary. The couple have four children, two daughters and two sons. Bilquis runs the free maternity home at the headquarters in Karachi and organises the adoption of illegitimate and abandoned babies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdul Sattar Edhi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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