PAKISTAN BAIT-UL-MAL

INTRODUCTION
Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM), an autonomous body set up through 1991 Act. PBM is
significantly contributing toward poverty alleviation through its various poorest of the
poor focused services and providing assistance to destitute, widow, orphan, invalid,
infirm & other needy persons, as per eligibly criteria approved by Bait-ul-Mal Board.

MISSION
To provide social protection to the poor marginalized segments of the society.

VISION
 To ameliorate teaming millions of the country through focus on rehabilitation.
 Transparency and reaching the deserving would be the hallmark of
implementation strategy.  

OBJECTIVES
 Financial assistance to the destitute, widows, orphans, invalids, infirm and other
needy persons with emphasis on rehabilitation.
 Educational assistance to needy orphan and stipends for the outstanding, non-
affording students for higher professional education.
 Residential accommodation and necessary facilities for the deserving.
 Free medical treatment for indigent sick people, set up free hospitals and
rehabilitation centers for the poor.
 Financial aid to charitable institutions including educational & vocational setups.
 Sponsor and promote self-employment schemes.
   

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MD’S MESSAGE

ZAMURRUD KHAN

My mission is to provide a wheel chair to the last needy in Pakistan. This actually
means to eradicate poverty through helping disables. I believe, if there is any disabled
person in a family it involves the whole family to take care of him but if there are more
than one disabled people in one household then what happens. The parents loose hope
and that's why, PBM has introduced a policy of providing Rs. 25000/- to such families
who have more than one disabled person.

God Bless Pakistan and PBM as we will always be there for all needy and helpless
people of this country.

Long Live Democracy as it has provided us with the opportunity to do something for the
people of Pakistan, those who actually deserve help. May Allah give me strength to
fulfill my vision and mission of "Don't leave them halfway".

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PROJECTS OF PAKISTAN BAIT-UL MAL

 Pakistan Sweet Homes.
 Child Support Programme (CSP).
 Special Friends.
 Individual Financial Assistance (IFA).

PAKISTAN SWEET HOMES

As the name implies, “Pakistan Sweet Homes” mean the children who are living in these
centers shall be nice, intelligent and well-groomed. Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal has started a
new project for orphans, which can justifiably be called as mother to the motherless. It
does all what a mother does to her children. Pakistan Sweet Homes is one of the
largest projects of the PBM, which provides not only residential facilities to about 1,500
orphan children but also educational facilities to make them better citizens.

Pakistan has very rich tradition of providing care to Orphans and children without
parental support. Since signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989,
Pakistan has taken various initiatives for fulfilling its obligations. PBM Act-1991 (as
amended) Clause 4 (d) speaks that the money in the Bait-ul-Mal shall be utilized to
provide residential accommodation and necessary facilities to the persons specified in
clause-4(a) i.e. destitute and needy widows and orphans etc. Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal,
therefore, has decided to establish Orphanages at Divisional level. In this regard 40
Orphanage centers will be established having accommodation of 100 children each.

The centers have been set up in rented buildings. The rent of a building ranges
between Rs 50,000 and Rs 100,000 depending on its location and size. But in some
cases the sponsors also contribute in paying the rent. As pilot, 13 Sweet Pakistan
Homes (Orphanages) have been established in the following districts
PUNJAB SINDH KHYBER BALOCHISTAN AJK/NAs
PAKHTUNKWA
(KPK)
Rawalpindi Larkana Mardan Quetta Sihala
Multan Nawabshah Abbottabad   Muzaffarabad
Bahawalpur Mirpurkhas Mansehra   Gilgit

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FUNCTION OF PAKISTAN SWEET HOMES

Orphan children between four and six years age, or who deserve Zakat, are kept in the
Orphanages till they complete 14 years of education. 1500 Orphans are kept up till now
in 13 Orphanages.

The PMB had launched the project in March 2010 with an aim to provide quality
education to orphan kids and to keep them safe from indulging in negative activities.
Most of the kids are from families affected by operations against war on terror, blasts
and internally displaced families having lost their two or one parent.

Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal is not alone to carry out this gigantic task, as up till now, more than
700 sons of the nation have been adopted by the well-off people from our society. They
include: Honorable Asif Ali Zardari, Mian Amir (Vice Chancellor MAJU), Rubina Qaim
Khawani, Adnan Samee Khan, Faryal Gohar etc.

CRITERIA
 Orphan (Father is deceased).
 Male.
 Age between 4 to 6 years.
 Poor (Eligible of Zakat).

FACILITIES
Following in house Facilities is available to the Orphans:

 Free furnished accommodation in a family unit.

 Free nutritious balanced diet as per weekly menu (breakfast/lunch/dinner).
 Free Education in best schools of the town.
 Free Uniform, books and utensils.
 Free Summer/Winter clothing along with shoes (once a season).
 Medical care.
 Skill development.
 Orphans can be given vacations in various Religious day and they are allowed to
go home.
 For every 10 Orphans theirs a permanent mother maid to look after them.
 PBM bear all the boarding, lodging, schooling and all other expenses of orphan
kids until they became financially self-reliant.
 There are two teachers and one qari or qaria for hundred children in a center.

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OUTCOME & BENEFITS

 Ensuring a definite future with dignity for at least 10% of Orphans, living below
poverty line having no one to look after them in family.
 Institutional care leading their sustainability.
 Rehabilitation of 100 Orphans in each center.
 Preservation of cultural values by making them useful and helpful citizens.
 Allowing them to live normal lives with other citizens in a venerable manner.
 Potential and skills of these orphans would be utilized in constructive manner
instead hijacking them by negative people.

EXPENDITURES
Annual expenditure of one center is about Rs 95 lac wherein almost 100 children are
accommodated and Rs. 9500 are spent on each child every month.

SPONSORSHIP
Under the project’s sponsorship scheme, anyone can sponsor the expenses of a child,
with amount Rs 9500 per month. And the whole center can also be sponsored for 14
years. About 150 philanthropists have already sponsored children individually and few
have sponsored the whole orphan centers like Mian Amir Mehmood has signed a MoU
to bear the expenses of Islamabad and Rawalpindi centers and negotiations are going
on between the PBM and Faryal Talpur, the sister of President Zardari, to sponsor the
center of Nawabshah for the coming years. Out of 1500, 750 children and 6 centers
have been sponsored by different celebrities, philanthropists, and politicians such as
Farayal Gohar, Adnan Sami Khan, Speaker National Assembly Fahmida Mirza,
President Asif Ali Zardari and different institutes are also willing to bear the expenses of
orphanage center including COMSATS and Iqra University.

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PLANS
The PBM has planned to launch more such centers and 19 new centers are in the
pipeline which are expected be functional in April this year having accommodation of
100 children each. The centers would be established in Lahore, Khanewal, Faisalabad,
Sahiwal, Khoshab, Attock, Jhelum, Jhang, Chakwal, Karachi, Sukkar, Peshawar, Zhob,
Islamabad, Sadhnoti and Skardu.

Sweet Home for senior citizens has been launched at Sihala by Managing Director
Pakistan Bait ul Maal (PBM) Zamurd Khan. Under the pilot project four canters would be
established at provisional capitals Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta soon and on
special request a centre would also be set up at Gilgit-Baltistan.

Initially six persons Sheikh Ahmed Din from Rawalpindi, Riaz Ul Haq from Gujjar Khan,
Muhammad Ayub Lodhi from Rawalpindi, Farooq from Lahore, Akbar Shah from
Chakwal and Ghulam Anwar from Rawalpindi have been registered with the first centre.

PBM plans to expand this project to district level on availability of resources. Likewise,
Sweet Homes for orphan girls would be established in June this year at all the 11
districts where Sweet Homes for boys are being set-up.

CONCLUSION
There is a great need to accommodate orphan children  as millions of children have lost
their one or both parents due to war on terror, bombings, natural calamities and for
other reasons. And if they are not taken care off and imparted good education they may
indulge in negative activities.

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