KHIDMAT-E-KHALQ COMMITTEE (KKC)
A SERVICE TO HUMANITY - WE DESIRE NEITHER REWARD NOR ACCLAIM

I - SERVICES RENDERED BY THE KHIDMAT-E-KHALQ COMMITTEE

The way MQM's Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee has aided the poor, the deprived and the deserving; irrespective of their colour, cast, creed and religion, thus symbolising KKC as their only friend and hope.

That is also the main reason why the residence of the Founder Leader of the MQM, Mr. Altaf Hussain at Azizabad and the Office of the KKC at Block 14, Federal B. Area, Karachi are always thronged by the needy 24 hours a day. The residence of Mr. Altaf Hussain has a reception area where the problems of the needy are seriously listened to. At the Office of KKC, its staff processes the applications of the poor and deserving and necessary assistance is immediately provided. The manner in which the KKC helps the people without discrimination is mentioned below:-

1- MONTHLY DISBURSEMENT OF FINANCIAL AID TO THE POOR AND NEEDY
KKC provides financial support on monthly basis to all those students and widows who have no means of financial support. All such deserving widows and students are issued special cards. These poor widows and students by displaying their card at the KKC Central Office receive the money apportioned for them every month. The widows are given aid on the basis of the number of household members in their homes. This way thousands of people are being supported with the help of MQM's Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee. Not only Mohajir families are being aided by the KKC but the list also includes Sindhis, Balochis, Punjabis, Saraikis and Pakhtoons, in fact, people of all the nationalities of the country. Poor students, besides being helped monetarily, are provided their course books, uniforms and fees. In 1996-97, the KKC distributed Rs. 0.5 million amongst the students, the widows and other deserving persons.

2 - PROVISION OF DOWRIES TO DESTITUTE AND ORPHAN GIRLS FOR THEIR MARRIAGES
The marriage of girls whose parents are from low income group is a major social and financial problem. In many cases the such girls have to face this problem themselves. The KKC not only provides financial help to such parents but also arranges for destitute girls to get married (at KKC's expense) and also provides full dowries. According to its accounts during 1996-97 an amount of Rs. 0.32 million were spent on the marriages of orphans and destitute girls.

3 - ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF AID AMONGST THE DESERVING DURING THE MONTH OF RAMAZAN
KKC besides providing monthly help to poor students and deserving widows and other occasional aid, also arranges the distribution of sewing machines, installation of vegetable and fruit stalls, wheel chairs for the handicapped, tape recorders for the blind and distribution of cash amongst thousands of poor and needy, the dependants of shaheed, disabled students and widows, during Ramazan. For this annual programme, applications are usually received from the first till the 15th or 20th of Ramazan. Each application, is processed and investigated and each applicant is allotted aid according to his or her need.

This annual aid programme is generally held in the last week of Ramazan. Aid is distributed irrespective of the colour, cast, creed, language or religion, to the poor and needy and special care is taken to ensure that the aid is given only to the deserving. Almost five thousand persons receive aid through this programme every year. We try to ensure that poor, needy families are also able to celebrate Eid. These annual aid programmes are not only organised in Karachi, Hyderabad and the other cities of Sindh but also in Punjab, the NWFP and Balochistan. Thus the aid programmes of KKC have now been spreading throughout the country. Apart from this annual aid programme and monthly distribution of aid, the MQM's Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee provides help in a variety of ways throughout the year to deserving people.

4 - FREE MEDICAL AID TREATMENT AND PROVISION OF MEDICINES TO THE POOR
The MQM's Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee provides free medical care to the poor and needy besides providing free medicines to them. For these medical facilities the MQM has established a separate department known as the "Medical Aid Committee". It provides medical care and treatment and other facilities to the poor. The MQM's Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee has also created an "Emergency Centre", spreading in an area of three acres in Federal 'B' Area Block 14, District Central, where experienced staff remains on active duty to serve 24 hours a day. In this building, there are different departments to handle the medical needs of the people. At present, there is a dispensary operating in the Emergency centre, it provides free medical care and medicines to the deserving. Besides these services, every year on the 'Polio Day', the KKC provide vaccination for prevention from Polio to the children and for this purpose, special arrangements are made at the medical dispensary.

5- AMBULANCE AND COFFIN CARRIER SERVICE
KKC's largest Ambulance and Coffin Carrier Service Centre (ACCSC) is situated at the KKC Emergency Centre in Federal 'B' Area where four coffin carrier buses and 19 ambulances are equipped with oxygen facilities and all other medical emergency equipment. The Emergency Centre staff comprises of 70 people. The KKC ambulances arrive promptly on intimation of a traffic accident or emergency; regardless of where it occurred. Ambulances proceed to the nearest hospital promptly with the casualties in order to save precious lives as best as they can. In view of the increasing accidents in Karachi, the KKC has established another ambulance centre at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital with a fleet of four ambulances, available round the clock.

The network of the KKC ambulance service is expending throughout the country. Apart from different localities of Karachi, the ambulance service has been made available to carry casualty cases and ill people in Thatta, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Tando Allah Yar, Nawabshah, Khairpur, Sehwan Sharif, Umer Kot, Shadadpur, Sanghar, Rohri, Ghotki, Rahimyar Khan, Jamshoro, Lahore, Khanewal, Multan, Sahiwal, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Chaman and Peshawar and other cities and localities in Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab and the NWFP. Any casualty or a patient from a poor family is provided free ambulance service.

KKC is also serving the people without any reward, through its Coffin Carrier Service. It initially began the coffin carrier service with two buses. Now the fleet has grown to four. The KKC charges nominal rate from those who can afford, for its service, so that the free of charge facility for the poor and destitute could be maintained. Along with the coffin carrier service other facilities of bathing and providing the coffin for the dead is available free of cost at the Emergency Centre for the poor and destitute.

As in Karachi, KKC is serving the people in Hyderabad through its Ambulance and Coffin Carrier Service. This ACCSC is situated in the KKC city centre at Bhai Chari, Hyderabad. Here too, the people are served without discrimination of language or nationality.

6- SERVICE TO THE POOR THROUGH MOBILE DISPENSARIES AND FIELD HOSPITALS
By providing free of cost medical care to the poor through its mobile dispensaries and field hospitals, the KKC has added another achievement to its credit in its service to humanity. Up till now, the KKC has served the poor through a number of its field hospitals and mobile dispensaries set up from time to time. In different areas of the city, where the patients are not only examined and dispensed medicines but they are also operated upon if needed in emergency. Through these mobile dispensaries and field hospitals, the poor are provided free medical care and medicines worth thousands of rupees. These mobile dispensaries are not only organised in Karachi, Hyderabad or other areas of Sindh; but also in Punjab, Balochistan and the NWFP, where free medical treatment and medicine is provided to those poor who otherwise have to suffer because of non availability of ordinary medicines in the government hospitals.


7- ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDICAL AID CAMPS IN THE MONTH OF MOHARRAM.
Every year the KKC sets up medical aid camps in various localities of each city on the occasion of the 10th of Moharram. In these camps, doctors and paramedical staff of the Medical Aid Committee, provide medical aid to persons who had accidents or injuries during the processions. These camps have all the life saving drugs and medical aid facilities. In case of an emergency, ambulances are always readily available at these medical aid camps.

8 - FREE LEGAL ASSISTANCE
To provide legal assistance to those who cannot afford it, the MQM has set up a full fledged section known as the "Legal Aid Committee". Expert lawyers of this committee sit daily in the central office situated near City Court, at Hoor Centre, Karachi and give legal advice free of cost to all those who seek this help. In fact, working with a humanitarian zeal these expert lawyers also act as counsels in the courts.

9- FRUITS AND VEGETABLE STALLS
Under the supervision of the KKC in various localities of the city, fruit and vegetable stalls are set up during Ramazan. Items are sold at cheaper rates. During Ramazan, there is a tendency for increase in the prices of edible items. Contrary to this, the KKC sells fruits and vegetables at more economic rates. This makes it possible even for the poor to enjoy their Iftar, a service which has tremendous rewards.

Introduction
01 - Services rendered by the Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee
02 - Historical Achievements of the Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee
03 - Future welfare programmes of the Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee
04 - Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee's Source of Income
05 - Recognition of the welfare activites of Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee
06 - Welfare activites of Khidmat-e-Khalq Committee and Quaid-e-Tehreek Altaf Hussain

Khitmat-e-Khalq Committee (KKC)
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United Kingdom

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