Bilquis Edhi shortlisted for ‘Person of Decade’ award

Philanthropist and humanitarian, Bilquis Edhi, has been shortlisted for the Person of Bidecadal 2000-2020 Award by Impact Hallmarks, a UK-based organization.

Eminent social worker and humanitarian Bilquis Edhi has been shortlisted among top 20 persons by an international organization ‘Impact Hallmarks.’

According to a statement, issued by the Edhi Foundation Pakistan and SAARC-ASEAN Post-Doctoral Academia Directorate, an online opinion poll for a global audience is being carried out currently to vote for the “Person of Decade”, based upon the impact value the person holds.

The finalists are the qualified contenders from well over 190 countries, and Bilquis Edhi stands among them tall.

She has been shortlisted for the prestigious title ‘Person of the Decade’.

Bilquis Bano Edhi was born on 14 August 1947 in Gujrat state of India. Communal riots drove the family to Bombay from where they migrated a few months later to Pakistan – to Mithadar. Her father, a trader by profession, died while she was still very young. Her widowed mother was left at an early age to bring up her three children – a girl and two boys.

When she was a teenager she was not enjoying school and managed to join a small expanding dispensary as a nurse in 1965.

At the time the Edhi home was in the old city area of Karachi known as Mithadar where it had been founded in 1951.