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SARIM BURNEY TRUST

INTERNATIONAL

KANZA ADNAN

NIHA JAWAID

BABAR SAEED

BILAL VICHI


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Sarim Burney Trust International

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

All thanks to Almighty God for the satisfactory completion of this

term report.

We want to thank our course Instructor of Business and

Professional Speech, Ms. Fareeda Ibad, whose continuous

supervision and assistance was of immense help and support to us.

We would also like to pay our deep regards to all of the people who

took part in this research report at Sarim Burney TrustInternational, especially Mr. Sarim Burney and Mrs. Aiya Burney,

the chairman and vice chairman at Sarim Burney Trust

International who personally gave us a tour and information about

their NGO and provided us with a lot of assistance that would have

otherwise not be possible for us to get.


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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

17th December, 2014

Ms. Fareeda Ibad

Business and Professional Speech

Institute of Business Management

Dear Madam

Subject: Non Profit Organizations working in Pakistan

Following is the report on: Non Profit Organizations working in

Pakistan as authorized by you in the Business and Professional

Speech course. We would like to thank you for assigning us this

report for our better understanding and representation of the

subject and gaining knowledge in better different fields.

We would like to acknowledge the cooperation of all the people weinterviewed and all those who were kind enough to lend us their

valuable time in making this report a success for us.

Yours Sincerely

Kanza AdnanNiha JawaidBabar SaeedBilal Vichi


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Table of Content

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................4

NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION ..............................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION TO THE SARIM BURNEY TRUST INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ...............................5

BACKGROUND OF SARIM BURNEY TRUST INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ........................................6

MISSION STATEMENT .........................................................................................................................9

VISION ........................................................................................................................................................... 9

OBJECTIVES OF SARIM BURNEY TRUST ....................................................................................................... 9

SERVICES PROVIDED AT SARIM BURNEY TRUST ....................................................................................... 10

OPERATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE................................................................................... 11

FUNCTIONAL AREAS ................................................................................................................................... 12

RESOURCE COLLECTION AT SARIM BURNEY TRUST.................................................................................. 16

SOURCES OF FUNDS ................................................................................................................................... 17

CHALLENGES IN RESOURCE COLLECTION .................................................................................................. 21

ALLOCATION OF FUNDS ............................................................................................................................. 22

FUTURE OUTLOOK ...................................................................................................................................... 24


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Sarim Burney Trust International is a Pakistan based Non-profit

organization working for the betterment of working for the

betterment which the society holds. Its core operations include

providing legal aid, shelter homes, financial aid, relief work and

child adoption. Basically their main focus is to help the oppressed

people of the society and also work against women and child abuse.

We met with the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Sarim Burney

Trust, who gave us an insight of the shelter home and the

organization. We got a chance to interact with the people living at

the shelter home and also got a chance to hear their own stories, in

their own words.


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NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a citizen-based

association that operates independently of government, usually to

deliver resources or serve some social or political purpose. TheWorld Bank classifies NGOs as either operational NGOs, which are

primarily concerned with development projects, or advocacy NGOs,

which are primarily concerned with promoting a cause.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SARIM BURNEY TRUST INTERNATIONAL

ORGANIZATION

Sarim Burney Trust is a Pakistan based non-profit organization

that focuses on providing shelter to men, women and children who

are in dire need of it. Sarim Burney is the pioneer to introduce

awareness about human rights in Pakistan. Their main focus is on

oppressed people of the society. This trust works without any

discrimination of caste, religion and creed. Trusts aim is to bring

the whole community and people from all walks of life under one

umbrella for their betterment and uplifting. At Sarim Burney, they

fight against all forms of injustices, cruelty, inhumanity and

child/women abuse. Sarim Burney Welfare Trust has achieved

tremendous success in different areas, particularly camel jockey,

women trafficking, disaster reliever, legal assistance; provide shelter

to coral women and children without getting a single penny from

any donor agencies. Rather their member supported our initiatives


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with the help of the local communities, they are serving. Its located

at North Nazimabad.

BACKGROUND OF SARIM BURNEY TRUST INTERNATIONALORGANIZATION

On our visit to the shelter home, we met with Mr. Sarim Burney

and his wife Mrs. Aliya Burney., who are the chairman and vice

chairman at Sarim Burney Trust respectively. Sarim Burney Trust

Organization came into existence almost 25 years ago. Since its

inception it has worked towards the betterment of the oppressed

people of the community. Mr. Sarim, himself started the NGO along

with his father who were always came forward as the people of the

community who helped others in need. Instead of helping people

individually, they decided to work for a good cause on a bigger

scale. Since that time, he has always helped people who are abused,

trafficked and homeless and provided them with a place to stay. It

was not until 2004 when Tsunami hit the South Asian countries

that he realized what exactly is a mans worth on this planet.

According to Mr. Sarim himself, he went to Indonesia during that

time with aid and donations in hopes of helping people there but on

his arrival there he saw a completely unrealistic environment. He

could not believe how little a mans life is worth in this world. He

stayed there for a few days, as long as he could, but he realized that

there was not much he could do there, except for providing them

with aid and food supplies. He says, that was the time he actually

changed as a human being and started to feel pain for anotherbeing. From that day on he made up his mind to help whoever he

possibly could, in whatever way he possibly could.

Sarim Burney started 25 years old, but just a few years ago they

have started to create awareness internationally in hopes of getting


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donations since they dont except donations from any donor

agencies. Mrs. Aliya has been a part of this trust for over 19 years,

since she got married to Mr. Sarim and is a very head strong,

confident and independent woman. She works under the shadow of

her husband and is doing an excellent job at it. She has a personalconnection with all the people living at the trusts shelter home.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Burney treat each and every person living at the

shelter as their own family member, listen to their problems, give

them time, converse with them. They play with the children there

and provide with them toys and other things of their need.

Mr. and Mrs. Burney personally believe that providing education to

the lower class is next to pointless, since in Pakistan individualssitting at high posts mostly make the decisions and such decisions

are hardly ever done on merit. They believe that along with

education these people should be taught a skill. So even if they are

unable to write their name, they can work for example at a

mechanics workshop and earn a good living for himself and his

family. As for the women, they can learn to sow or garden so that

they can earn a living though that. They want learned individuals

from well off families to come forward and help these people in

need, not only in a way that would help them get through a single

day, but in a way that would help them in the future.

The shelter that we visited had all kinds of people from all sorts of

backgrounds, castes, religions and they all lived like a family there.

We talked to a view women living there and heard their devastating

stories. Two of the women we met were from Africa and they were

tricked into coming to Pakistan and later on forced to be sold, but

they ran away from where they were kept and somehow found Mr.Sarim who is currently fighting a case against those people who

kept them and their passports. A group of lawyers under the

leadership of Sarim Burney has been constituted, sensing the needs

and difficulties of the poor and needy, as to provide them both


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moral boost and legal remedies, to render their expertise to the

beneficiaries.

There are more than 70 million children under the age of 18 years

in Pakistan. About half of these (35 million) are girls. Twenty-fivemillion children of school-going age do not attend school. According

to official figures there are 3.3 million child laborers, but unofficial

estimates place the number at 8 million. Approximately 4,000

children languish in the over-crowded, inhabitable conditions of

Pakistans jails. The vast majority of these have not yet been

convicted. These are just a few figures to illustrate the desperate

condition of children in Pakistan. Along with providing shelter, food

and supplies to these people, they provide education at the shelterhomes too. Mrs. Aliya herself provides education to the children

there in groups of primary, lower secondary and upper secondary

education. Main focus is on basic English, Urdu and Math in

groups of three. So that when its time for them to leave (either for

further education or if they are lucky enough to get adopted) they

are capable enough to sit for an admission test and are able to clear

the test. Apart for this they are provided with Islamic Education,

after their regular education they have Madrasa sessions.

Mr. Sarim encourages university students to visit the shelter as

often as they can, not just men, girls as well so that they get an

insight of how the world works and what kinds of people there are

in the world and how a woman can protect herself from it. To listen

to their stories does not only give us the courage to face the world

but also makes us realize how blessed we are to be living the life

that we are leading. He believes that spending a day with these

oppressed individuals can make a person realize that they can onlytrust God completely. People from well off families send their girls to

this shelter home for them to become more strong and confident.


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MISSION STATEMENT

To serve the humanity, work for human welfare and to help thedowntrodden and the deprived.

VISION

Sarim Burneys vision is to encourage respect for human rights,

safeguard the rights of women and children, fight against all forms

of injustices, cruelty, inhumanity, child and women abuse and

encourage better treatment of human beings and for the rights and

freedom of civil liberties.

OBJECTIVES OF SARIM BURNEY TRUST

To aware the society about the basic human rights To empower the women regarding their basic human rights

To train the human rights activists by giving them trainings on

human beings issues

To raise awareness, provide free legal advice and services and

humanitarian assistance where needed

To pay special attention on the basic human rights of the

women and children

To develop networking, advocacy and lobbying among differentgovernment institutions and non-government organizations

about human rights issues

To develop the self -sustainable projects for the Pakistani

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To work for the rehabilitation and welfare of the families of

these unfortunate human beings purely on humanitarian

grounds in the greater interest of justice and humanity

without any affiliation or consideration for any political party,

group or activities.

To take necessary action in preventing Human Rights

Violations and providing aid and assistance including legal aid

to victims of Human Rights Violations and to individuals and

group striving to protect human rights.

SERVICES PROVIDED AT SARIM BURNEY TRUST

Sarim Burneys goal is to alleviate poverty, help the oppressed,

provide assistance to the underprivileged people of urban slums.

The trust by fulfilling its obligations has provided & is providing

legal assistance to those prisoners who cannot even afford a single

penny, further more to those who are falsely implicated in cases

and have been confined in jails. In order to achieve this goal Sarim

Burney Trust follows the following services:

Legal Aid Committee

Provide Legal support to the survivors of Trafficking

Defending Women and childrens rights in the Middle East

Database on trafficking

Centre for exploited children and women

Legal Assistance

Providing Treatment and Financial assistance to disable

persons Disasters Relief

Providing relief and assistance during natural disasters

Ambulance Services


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OPERATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Sarim Burney Trust is run primarily by Mr. Sarim Burney himself

and his Wife. There are two main operational centers, one is their

office at Arambagh and the other is their shelter home at

Nazimabad. Mr. Burney looks after the matters at the office while

Mrs. Burney takes care of the shelter home.

At the office Mr. Burney has employed a total of 60 people which

include sixteen advocates who work in the legal aid department and

the rest of the staff include administrative staff, drivers and peonsand so on. All of these sixty people are paid but not as much as a

similar job elsewhere would pay. The staff comprises of those people

who were in need of rehabilitation after overcoming some tragedy or

a very difficult phase in their lives. Therefore these people work

willingly on minimum pay in order to help others who are in similar

situation come out of their misery.

At the shelter, apart from a driver and a guard, there are no

employees. The place is set up in the form of a joint family

household where the elderly do not do any chores and the younger

ones take care of all the work around the house. Mrs. Burney has

set up teams for cleaning, cooking and washing and this way

everyone knows their responsibility in the house. At the shelter

there are girls who have done their Masters and Bachelors or are

doctors and they have the responsibility of teaching the children.

The in house school starts at eight every morning where the

students learn English, Urdu, Mathematics and science. Mrs.Burney says the she did not need to hire any outside help and the

shelter works completely on the principle of self-help.


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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

LEGAL AID

SBTI is the pioneer in providing legal aid to all those who cannot

afford it. In Pakistan many people get wrongly sentenced for a crime

they did not commit only because the other party was more

influential or the innocent party did not have enough evidence to

prove their innocence. In case like these, SBTI provides legal

assistance to these people helping them get out of a unfair sentence

or any other legal problem

Apart from that aid is also provided to Pakistanis who are stuck

abroad and are unable to come back home or any foreigners who

are unable to go back home. Recently they helped was a British

National who came to Pakistan 10 years ago for the purpose of

training university teachers. He got caught up In work here and

overstayed his visa validity. He contacted the British embassy both

here and in England but got no response from either of them. SBTI

eventually helped him fulfill all his legal dues and travel back toEngland.

Upon our visit we met a couple of sisters from Rwanda who were

unable to go back home. They were brought here by their own sister

and brother in law who later seized their passports, kept them

captive and also starved and tortured them. They somehow

managed to run-away from their house and a kind fellow brought

them to SBTI Shelter home. Their sister, upon their escape, pressed

charges against them for theft. Now SBTI is fighting their case in

the court on its own expense. Not only do they have to reclaim their

passports and other documents they also need to remove the theft

charges before the girls could travel back home safely. SBTI is not

only providing them legal aid in this case but those girls are staying


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at the shelter and Mrs. Burney also takes them for their court

hearings and meetings with the lawyer. After coming to the shelter

the girls were also able to contact their parents back in Rwanda and

inform them about their well-being.

Sarim Burney Trust International also rescued the children who

were abducted from Pakistan and taken to the Middle East for

camel jokey where they were tied to the camels during the race and

would get severely injured or even die. These children were brought

back home by SBTI and reunited with their families.

SHELTER HOME

The Shelter Home was established with the aim of providing refuge

to exploited women and children. The shelter home is home to over

150 women and children all with their tragedies and forsaken by

their own loved ones. At this shelter you can meet children of all

ages who lost their parents or got separated from them. Many of

these children are orphans and have seen such harsh realities of

life at such a tender age. These children were left alone on the

streets at the mercy of the cruel society. Many of them were raped,

tortured and exploited. One child at the shelter whose mother is in

jail was rescued from the jail where he was being raped by other

prisoners and was also given drugs. All of this caused him to lose

his mental balance and also his ability to speak properly. After

coming to the shelter and being loved and cared for the past one

year, he has regained some ability to speak and has also become

sociable.

Here you can also meet mothers who dedicated their entire

existence to their children for the entire time they were growing andare now left by the same to die alone. Some of these women were

also tortured by their sons and thrown out empty handed. The boys

they raised to be their pillars in the old age and their support in

their last moments were the ones who put them in such immense

misery. Their eyes are now dry and their hearts empty and all they


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RELIEF WORK

Sarim Burney Trust International started disaster relief in 2004

when Mr. Burney went to tsunami hit Indonesia with food and

medical supplies. The plight of the affected touched him so deeply

that he continued this operation whenever disaster hit. Again in

2005 when the earthquake hit the northern areas of Pakistan, he

went with his team with food and medical supplies and tried to

reach all those areas where the aid was unable to reach. He

continued his relief efforts when flood hit Pakistan twice.

Apart from disaster relief Sarim Burney Trust International also

distributes ration among some families who do not have a stable

source of income. These families mostly include widows who are left

alone to take care of their children. The ration provided leaves them

one thing less to worry about.

CHILDADOPTION

Whenever a child comes to Sarim Burney Trust International, theirutmost effort is to find them a home and family where they can live

a normal life and grow up as a productive member of the society. If

they receive a case where the child is lost they try their best to

reunite them with their families. But if a child with no parents

comes to them they keep them like their own and meanwhile try to

find them a family where they would get the love and care they

deserve. Especially infants who are only a few months old are given

to the young couples who are unable to have a child of their own.

The process of child adoption is carried out with a lot of care and

only after thorough scrutiny are the couples chosen for this

purpose. Children are only given to couples who do not have a child

of their own and the couple is asked to deposit a sum of money in a

fixed account on the childs name. That money can only be used by


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the child once he or she turns eighteen. This is done for the security

of the child in case of an unfortunate event.

RESOURCE COLLECTION AT SARIM BURNEY TRUST

Sarim Burney Trust is aware that it is impossible to cover every

eventuality of resource collection and distribution, and therefore a

set of guidelines have been designed to identify the areas that need

to be considered and the types of controls that can be put in place.

Sarim Burney Trust implements these guidelines as instructions

from which to ensure transparency and credibility within the trust

itself.

Donation handling guidance are important for three main

reasons:

To protect the Sarim Burney Trust from fraud, theft or

embezzlement;

To protect permanent staff or even volunteers from

accusations of either dishonesty or any sort of temptations tocommit fraud; and

In order to assure the donors that their valuable donations

and gifts are being used for the purpose for which they were

donated to Sarim Burney Trust.

The need to handle donations, and particularly cash, arises

throughout the fundraising sector that is mostly nongovernmental

in Pakistan and occurs in a number of areas, such as shelter homebudgeting, camel jockey rescues, legal aid, Hospitalization, human

trafficking and disaster relief. These donations can be made in

person, over the phone or online. The general guidance at Sarim

Burney Trust applies to the handling of donations in all situations

or events


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SOURCES OF FUNDS

A large-scale shelter Program, with a growing network of shelterhomes, requires support in many capacities and larger resources of

funds. The legal aid Program of Sarim Burney trust is funded

entirely with charitable donations and to join the cause of providing

free legal aid to the underprivileged and help and bring hope and

happiness to the people of Pakistan.

A shelter home of Sarim Burney in Karachi was first established in

North Nazimabad by Sarim Burney himself. Around thirty percent

donations come from Pakistan and other donations come from

United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, United Arab

Emirates, and Bahrain.

Donations from UAE:

Supporters of The Citizens Foundation in UAE established the first

chapter of TCF overseas.

Donations from Bahrain:

A representative of Sarim Burney Trust is present in Bahrain to

collect funds from the local people and businessmen. The Person is

a trusted and close friend of Sarim Burney himself and is credible

to the donations received.

Donations from Canada:

Donations from Canada are received through online bank accounts

that belong to the Sarim Burney Trust. Canadian currency

monetary transactions are converted into Pakistani Rupees at

exchange rates set by the money exchange forces on the date of

transaction. All monetary and financial assets and long-term and


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short-term liabilities in foreign currencies at the reporting date are

transformed into Pakistani Rupees at the rates of exchange

prevailing on the reporting date. Exchange rate differences, if any,

are included in the income and expenditure account of Sarim

Burney Trust.

Donations from USA:

Donations from United States of America are collected via an

international account of Sarim Burney Trust.

Foreign currency transactions are translated into Pakistani Rupees

at exchange rates set by the money exchange forces on the date of

transaction. All monetary and financial assets and long-term andshort-term liabilities in foreign currencies at the reporting date are

converted in to Pakistani Rupees at the rates of exchange prevailing

on the reporting date. Exchange rate differences, if any, are

included in income and expenditure account.

Use of PayPal for International Donations

PayPal is being used to receive payments from independent

international donors through the Internet .Once Sarim BurneyTrust signed up for a PayPal account, They have been receiving

donations online. When donors donate money, they can choose to

fund their donations from either their PayPal account balance or a

credit card, or even their original bank account. Sarim Burney

Trust is then notified via an email from PayPal itself that a donation

has been made in their amount. The next step taken is that, these

donations which are in a foreign currency are converted into

Pakistani Rupees at the exchange rates being set by the market

forces on the date the donation is made.


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Reasons for selection of PayPal by Sarim Burney Trust

PayPal saves time as compared to bank transitions

Keeps all of the financial information of the trust in one place

Gives donor the benefit of using credit cards for donations or

make payments directly from their bank accounts

Faster than money orders and cheques

No-waiting in line at the bank.

PayPal is trusted worldwide

More than 50 million member accounts and growing

Used across the world in 203 countries and regions

Financial information of the trust is never shared

Experienced fraud prevention team fights fraud before it

happens

Funds Received as Zakat:

Many of our religious traditions teach us that it's

wrong to live existence lacking discerning our obligation to others:

allocating whatever one has alongside ones fellow being, will

increase the less opportune in countless methods, increase their

opportunities and brighten their lives. We have a vital act to frolic in

seizing up useful measures to safeguard that a sluggish but stable

extreme socio-cultural makeover seizes locale in Pakistan in theform of Zakat. Sarim Burney Trust awaits Zakat through:

Cheques or Bank Drafts

Online via credit cards or PayPal


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Sale of Passes

Sarim Burney Trust sells the passes of any event they organize.

This way of raising finance not only covers their expenses incurred

in organizing their event, but it also leaves a surplus amount which

is included in the donation after paying up all the incurred costs.

Similarly, Sarim Burney Trust also offers charged passes for their

event which everyone except the Chief Guest of the event is

supposed to buy. This year the passes were priced at PKR 600 and

it effectively contributed towards the generation of handsome

donation as well as paying up the bill of Sherraton hotel.

Sources of Human Capital

Sarim Burney Trust manages human resources in the most

efficient way possible, there is a limited number of salaried

employees hired and that too are in the legal aid division mostly

consisting of lawyers. In order to manage the operational activities

at the shelter home, Sarim Burney Trust allocates duties amongst

the residents of the shelter


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CHALLENGES IN RESOURCE COLLECTION

One of the major troubles faced by Sarim Burney Trust is of

generating the funds to support the operations of this organization.

The first cause of these limitations is that, there is a huge number

of NGOs working in Pakistan who are working to support various

causes such as ambulance network or lunch to the hungry etc and

are attracting the donations. This then restricts the amount of

donations that each NGO in Pakistan gets. The same is the case

with Sarim Burney Trust.

Second major restriction is that the Sarim Burney himself has shed

some light on how in the name of Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR), many companies are taking advantage of this by declaring

millions of amount being donated to Sarim Burney Trust but only

limited to the extent of paper work just to save on taxes on their

revenues and are not actually donating the amount declared. He

further revealed that not only some of the renowned local

companies are involved in this, but also some of the giant

multinationals in Pakistan are involved in this as well. This then

further creates the shortage of funds needed to keep the operationsof Sarim Burney Trust run effectively.

Lastly, many people are in the view of saving lives that are in

danger rather than wasting money on legal aid. However, they failed

to ignore the fact that free legal aid to an innocent is as important

as shelter to a homeless person, and there are not much NGOs

working towards the sector of free legal aid and the justice

department of Pakistan does not provide subsidized legal aid.

Hence, it becomes very difficult for the foundation to convince the

potential donors to donate.


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ALLOCATION OF FUNDS

Funds are allocated quarterly via a meeting of board of trustees

which is communicated once a quarter, in this meeting it is decidedon schedule of events and projected requirements of Funds for the

coming quarter.

An aspect worth mentioning here, the allocation of funds also

follows a thumb rule of directing funds first over the operations of

shelter home first. The Flow of funds is also managed as such that

there is least waiting times for innocent people waiting for free legal

aid.

Donations for legal aid and shelter homes is recognized as income.

Donations related to operating fixed assets e.g. for building and

repairing shelter home etc. received in cash are recognized as

deferred income and amortized over the useful lives of assets from

the date the asset is available for intended use.

Gain or losses on sale of investments are included in income and

expenditure account on the date at which the transaction takes

place. Dividend income is recognized when the right to receivedividend is established.

Income for the last year is as follows: (Pak Rupees)

Donations 1,110,671,000

Income and Investments 21,461,000

Profit on bank accounts 8,157,000

Exchange gain 11,199,000

Gain on disposal of fixed assets 32,035,000

Dividend Income 6,142,000


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Total Income Rs. 1,189,665,000

Following is the present estimated costs (in Pak Rupees) of

supporting and building Sarim Burney trust shelter homes.

Educate a child

1 month 1,000

1 year 12,000

Free Legal Aid

Single Unit 1.5 m

Dual Unit 3 m

Tri Unit 4.5m

Build a shelter home and support

Primary Unit 11.5m + 4.95m

Secondary (single) unit 12.5m + 4.95m

Secondary (dual) unit 25m + 9.9m


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FUTURE OUTLOOK

Sarim Burney trust has gained success in past couple of years and

their work and dedication can be seen by the activities they do. The

trust carries out lots of task though they have many future plans.

They want the trust to reach at very high level. They have many

aims but their short term aims are:

1) Parents home.

2) Shelter for disabled people.

3) To stop national and international human smuggling.

4) To cure patients who are orphans and disabled with alliance of

the hospitals.

5) To start ambulance service all over the country.

According to Mr. Sarim Burney all the projects are planned already

but they are looking for the opportunity to start the projects. He

believes that with the increase in the network with people and

appreciations by the people it will become quite motivating to start

the project as soon as possible. His first priority in the plan of

projects Is:

PARENTS HOME

In our language the shelter for old age people is called old age

home. MR Sarim Burney disagrees with the name and believes that

every old people in this world are like our parents. In the trust there

are so many old women who are so happy in the current shelter

that they do not desire to go back home. The condition of the

parents in our society has been very vulnerable and the situations


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parents face in their old age by their children is very difficult. There

was a women in the trust who used to be beaten by his son because

she used to stop him from consuming drugs and other illegal

activities. An another women reported that her daughter in law

used to beat him so badly and her son never said anything. MRSarim Burney strongly believes that there should be a very big

shelter for the old people where they can be treated like parents, he

wants to give those parents the life a child should give to his or her

parents. On our visit a women reported that the love Sarim give to

me is exceptional. Mr. Sarim reported that there are many

challenges we have to face by the children. For example a son

dropped his mother in our shelter, after few days he came back and

asked for her mother just because he realized that his mother usedto do his house work and his wife used to rest. But his mother did

not want to go back. On this the son reacted and used to come

again and again and used to blackmail the guard of the shelter. On

another occasion when a mother came to Sarim Burney herself, her

son told the police that MR Sarim Burney has forcefully kept his

mother in the shelter. He want to make a proper parents home

where their will be a proper custody agreement between the trust

and the children of the parent. He want to make sure that theparent he is giving the place in the parent home do not get any

problem and spend rest of the life getting all the benefits that a son

give to his or her parents. He also intends to provide all the security

to the old age people. In the shelter for parent and old people he

intends to provide medical facilities more then the current shelter

as old people are more subjected to the diseases.

Then the second priority of the trust is to start:


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problem here. They were very thankful to MR Sarim. MR Sarim aim

is to stop the human smuggling and send back the people who have

been smuggled from their own country. The trust had to face many

issues regarding rescuing and giving shelters to the smuggled girls.

The media and the society accused the trust that the trust rescuesthe girls and sells them. The society also believed that the trust give

shelter to the orphan girls and then trade them and smuggle them

across the world. As the whole mafia is involved in human

smuggling, the trust face lots of challenges in this area. The trust

gets threatening calls, even the founders are threatened by the local

and international mafia. The trust aims to develop a huge network

In order to achieve this objective. The trust has started to do

alliance with the international organizations who also aims toachieve this objective.

Then the trust aims to develop:

Shelter for disabled people

After building parent home the trust aims to build shelter for

disabled people where the disabled people will be trained to spend

the life like normal people. In the shelter the trust aims to buildtraining center for the disabled people even who is not living in the

shelter. The shelter will be provided with all the facilities that will

help the disabled people. According to MR Sarim Burney the shelter

for disabled is necessary as the disabled people face very less

motivating living with normal people and it is necessary to give

them the place and to let them create world of their own. The

shelter will have elevator facilities, ramps for the wheel chairs and

many other facilities that disabled people need. Here they will be

given the same education whether the person is deaf, blind, etc.

According to MISS Aliya Sarim the disabled people are one of us,

but their upbringing should be different and they should not realize

at any moment in life that they are disable, they should be trained

enough to lead the life as normally as possible.


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The trust also aims to:

Cure patients who are disabled and orphans

The trust is planning to develop a strategy where they can provide

treatment facilities to the orphans and disabled people. For this

they have started working and contacted several hospitals. They

have decided to have alliance with good hospitals. MR Sarim

believes that although we have good Government hospitals but we

intend to provide the treatment to the orphan and disabled people

same as the normal people of the nation. The trust also decided

that if any orphan got treated from a particular hospital and he

cannot afford it, he or she can simply bring the slip to the trust and

the trust will fund the patient. The challenges the trust believes

they may face is that the hospitals will not work sincerely as their

sole purpose is to earn profit and people might also cheat with the

trust by showing wrong slips of the treatment. For this purpose the

trust is deciding to build the team which will entirely work on this

area and will coordinate with hospitals and patients on daily basis.The trust is also aiming to set up medical camps in different rural

areas on weekly basis. The camp will be based in different areas of

Sindh initially then other interior areas.

The trust have all the aims to complete these projects but the as all

other trust needs funds and volunteering, Sarim Burney trust also

need aid by the people. The society is the one who will get benefits

by the completion of these projects and at the end it will help the

society to prosper.


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