Saylani Welfare Trust

Saylani Welfare International Trust is a Pakistani charity focusing primarily on feeding the homeless. It was established in May 1999 and is headquartered at Bahdurabad, Karachi, Pakistan.
It was founded and headed by 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. The organization distributed CNG rickshaws among the jobless citizens of Karachi in April, 2011 with the help of members of the Karachi business community.
Medical institutions of Saylani.
With its offices in Nottingham, UK, Saylani Welfare raises funds, as well as raising awareness of a range of charity projects. Services by Saylani (NGO) are provided free of cost. It offers following medical facilities at:
Charitable initiatives.
Saylani, since its inception, has worked on both, providing needed economic and nutritional help to the needy in distress as well as providing means for able persons to earn a living through innovative solutions to "tackle the root causes and effects of poverty of Pakistani citizens." This ranges anywhere from programs similar to those provided by Social Security in Western nations to doing area to area and neighborhood to neighborhood search of the needy and providing relief. Notable among these programs are:
Roti Bank.
The Roti Bank provides free meals to needy families in a simple walk-up kiosk along a main thoroughfare in Karachi. After providing their identification, details of family size (via birth certificates) and getting the Saylani "Free Food Card", the families can get 2 meals per day for a month. The initiative was launched on 14 August 2018.
Economic empowerment.
In 2013, in an effort to create economic empowerment via training in Technology, especially Web and Mobile App development, Saylani Welfare International Trust began its Saylani Mass IT Training (SMIT) Program.  Under the guidance of Zia Ullah Khan, who have previously ran successful mass IT programs like “Operation Badar”.  The goal of SMIT was to create 10,000 well-trained Web and Mobil App developers in emerging programming languages like React, Node JS and Angular JS. The program thus far have trained 4,000 developers successfully in as varied a fields as Cisco’s CCNA certification, Graphic Design, and Startup Entrepreneurship along with the Web and Mobile App development skills to spur economic empowerment and  allow its graduates to quickly become economically independent.
COVID-19 pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, reports emerged that rations were being denied to minority Hindus and Christians in the coastal areas of Karachi. The Saylani Welfare Trust, carrying out the relief work, said that the aid was reserved for Muslims alone. On 14 April, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom expressed concern with the discrimination. Other organisations, including Edhi Foundation, JDC Welfare Organization and Jamaat-e-Islami are reported to have stepped forward to provide relief to the minorities.