Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation

Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation

Type	Non-profit organization
Founded	January 2003
Founder(s)	Jahangir Siddiqui
Website	mjsf.net/

Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation is a Charitable, non-profit organization run by several board members and staff, on a gratis basis. It is a trust that operates as an entity in its own right. It is both non-profit as well as non-partisan.^[1] The primary focus areas are Healthcare, Education, Sustainable Development through Social Enterprises and Emergency Relief.^[2][3]

History

The foundation was founded on January 9, 2003.^[4] Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation is a non-profit charitable foundation based in Pakistan. The Foundation was established by Mr. Jahangir Siddiqui, an entrepreneur, and his wife Mahvash Siddiqui. The Foundation is a major donor to philanthropic causes in Pakistan.^[5][6]

Partners

The foundation has partnered with internationally known organizations that share the same concerns and a common motive, vision, and mission. These include:

• The United Nations (UN)
• Provincial Disaster Management Authority Sindh
• JS Bank
• UN Habitat for Humanity
• World Food Program (WFP)^[7]

Programs

Education

Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation is involved in various educational projects and running schools in rural areas for handicapped and special children too. The Foundation is focused on supporting:

• Higher Education University Grants
• School for Disabled Children
• Mainstream Education
• Vocational Training^[8]

Higher Education University Grants

Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation have granted funds to LUMS (School of Science and Engineering), Karachi School of Business and Leadership (KSBL) and Institute of Business Administration, University of Karachi (IBA) for institutional development.^[9]

JS Academy for the Deaf

The JS Academy for the Deaf has been operational since 2004. It is a specialized school in Karachi for deaf and hearing impaired children to read, write and communicate effectively. It has 165 students of which 18 students are from other cities of rural Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.^[10]

NUS Summer Program

The Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation and Sajjad Foundation (a charitable foundation based in Singapore) provides 14 annual scholarships for a summer program in entrepreneurship at the National University of Singapore for Pakistani university students. The students are selected after a rigorous national merit competition. This program has completed its fourth year with 37 universities participating from 11 cities in Pakistan.^[11][12]

Lahore University of Management Sciences

The Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation granted PKR 30 million (approximately US$ 500,000) to LUMS to build the Jahangir Siddiqui Hostel, a dormitory for male students as part of the development of the School of Science and Engineering at LUMS.^[13]

Vocational Training

The Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation with the Public Private Partnership Unit of the Planning & Development Department, Government of Sindh has opened a Vocational Center at the FIF School Mirwah Gorchani.^[14]

Health Care

The Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation participates in making donations to the health sector through their Zakat Fund and are considered as one of the largest donors with continuous annual commitment to a number of large hospitals. Zakat Funds are used for the most underprivileged patients at these hospitals who cannot afford healthcare.^[15] It supports a lot of big hospitals like NICVD and Karachi National Hospital along with others.^[16]

The Cardiovascular Foundation

The National Institute of Cardiovascular diseases (NICVD) has added a 15-million-rupee 30-bed ward to its old 19-bed cardiac emergency. Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation contributed Rs. 11 million for the cause.^[17]

Karachi National Hospital

The foundation built a fistula unit at the Karachi National Hospital in 2008 with many patients having been treated to date. Operating costs are now estimated at between Rs. 350,000 and 380,000 per patient but all the deserving patients are treated free of charge under this program and have access to the reputable urologists and gynecologists Pakistan has to offer.^[15] Following are some other programs which have been contributed and served by Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui foundation:

• Patients’ Behbud Society for the Aga Khan University Hospital
• The Medical Aid Foundation
• Burhani Blood Bank and Thalessaemia Centre^[18]

Social Enterprise and Sustainable Development

Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation have commitments to various foundations and are involved in the active development of the community through different projects. Grants create dependency and to alleviate poverty, the ultimate solutions are the projects that are economically productive and sustainable.^[15] Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui foundation have a 5-year commitment to the Acumen Fund in Pakistan, which is an affiliate of the Acumen Fund, a leading global sustainable development organization. In Pakistan, the Acumen Fund has been responsible in providing support and capital to organizations such as Kashf Foundation and Khuda ki Basti.^[19]

Acumen Fund

The Foundation has granted US$1 million to the Acumen Fund.^[20] The Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture capital fund founded in 2001 to address the issue of global poverty by investing in companies that bring critical goods and services to the poor.^[21][22]

Acumen Fund has been investing in Pakistan since 2001 in companies such as:

• Kashf, a leading microfinance organization based in Punjab province
• Saiban, a low-income housing development organization with housing communities in Karachi and Lahore
• Micro Drip, a drip irrigation solution company working with the poorest farmers in the Thar Desert in Sindh Province

Kashf Microfinance Bank

The Foundation has invested into Kashf Holdings, the parent company of Kashf Microfinance Bank with co-investors Grameen Foundation, Acumen Fund and Amar Foundation. The Foundation holds a 4.6% stake in Kashf Holdings.^[21] Kashf Microfinance Bank is an affiliate of Kashf, Pakistan’s second largest microfinance organization which has over 300,000 women as microfinance borrowers. Kashf operates throughout Punjab province.^[21]

Emergency Relief

Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation has made some extensive contributions for humanitarian relief during three previous national disasters; Kashmir Earthquake in 2005, Internally Displaced Persons Crisis in 2008 and the 2010 super floods.^[23]

2005 Earthquake

On October 8, 2005, the Himalayas were severely jolted by a massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale (USGS). The devastation was widespread in the mountainous area of Pakistan. Spearheading the domestic support and immediately mobilized, the Foundation was one of the organizations that provided rescue, relief and rehabilitation to the distressed by mobilizing itself within 4 days of the catastrophe.^[24][25]

It had a focused approach and it provided support in the following key areas:

1. Immediate relief operations
2. Rapid rebuilding of peoples livelihoods
3. Focus on most vulnerable and socially disadvantaged groups, such as children, women, disabled and the elderly
4. Encourage engagement of the private sector and civil society and fundraising for various relief organizations^[26]

2008 Swat Conflict- IDP (Internally Displaced Persons)

In October 2008, following the operation by the Pakistan Army to flush out Islamic extremists from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Swat, large areas of dense population center of the province were evacuated.^[24][27]

M&JS Foundation’s response was immediate. The Foundation provided large scale aid in the form of both Food Aid and Non-food Aid, transportation of IDPs out of the conflict zones, and supporting IDPs in their return to their homes. M&JS Foundation supported the following areas:

1. Logistics
2. Health
3. Food Aid
4. Rehabilitation

While the foundation disengaged from this relief effort at the end of 2008, hundreds of thousands of IDPs still live in camps run by the United Nations or with relatives as the military engagement is ongoing.^[24][28]

Flood Relief Campaign 2010

The Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation were actively involved in providing food aid in the different areas of the country. After certifying that a displaced person is indeed from an impacted flooded area, food aid would be delivered within 24 hours.^[23] The Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation had initially set up camps in Southern Punjab (Rajanpur District) and Upper Sindh (Kashmore, Shikarpur, Khairpur districts) which provided shelter, food aid, water and healthcare to approximately 10,000 people.^[29] The Sehwan Sharif refugee camp was established on 30 September 2010. The need for which had risen due to the mass exodus of people from the flooded areas.^[30] They were also providing mobile medical services (doctors in a van) that go to camps in Central Sindh and had built a major mobile medical service in Thatta District and were also providing medicines to various healthcare facilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.^[31]

United for a Cause’ Conference – Establishment of a Corporate Secretariat

United Nations (UN), Provincial Disaster Management Authority Sindh (PDMA), International Organization for Migration (IOM), JS Bank and Mahvash & Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation (MJSF) held a joint Conference at Mohatta Palace Museum focusing on developing coordinated strategies to address humanitarian needs of flood hit communities.^[32][33]

Flood Relief Campaign 2011

The current flash floods unleashed by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 342 people and injured over 630 since late last month, majority of them are in the province of Sindh. The floods have now affected over 7 million people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes across Sindh. 22 out of 23 districts of Sindh have been badly affected. More than 70% of the homes in villages and 30% in urban areas of Badin and Mirpurkhas have caved in, while the district has lost 70% of its crops.^[34][35] Starvation, disease and weakness are widespread and the threat of infections is becoming increasingly intense. Amongst this diarrhea, malaria and water borne diseases are the highest. There is a dire need to minimize the damage which is currently being caused by the lack of basic healthcare and amenities. The primary area of focus of the foundation is to provide food, water and medicine to all those affected.^[36][37] To extend care and support to the families displaced due to the recent flood in Sindh, Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation and JS Bank sent out its health team comprising doctors, para-medical staff, dispensers and helpers along with its fleet of ambulances and food rations for more than 3,000 families, to provide assistance to the affectees.^[38] To date, medical attention to 10,229 patients along with food rations, water and basic medical supplies have been provided to an estimated 17,500 people in the affected areas which should last them for a period of 8–10 days. The areas that were covered in the initial phase from 3 September to 12 September included Badin, Mirpurkhas, Thatta, Tando Mohammed Khan, Tando Allahyar and Mithi and the next phase will cover the areas of Sanghar, Nawabshah, Dadu and Khairpur districts.^[36][39]

See Also

• JS Bank
• JS Group

References

1. ^ http://www.usindh.edu.pk/agmqc/siddiq_foundation.html
2. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=53
3. ^ http://www.charity-charities.org/news.php?artid=613437
4. ^ http://blog.acumenfund.org/2010/08/23/until-it-hurts-a-love-letter-to-pakistan/
5. ^ http://mjsf.net/backup/leadership.html
6. ^ http://pubsub.com/Have-You-Heard-About-the-Floods-In-Pakistan_Nonprofit-Social-Entrepreneurship-help-cChnpycXgJV,d9bCZVFGawTE
7. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/
8. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47%3Afoundation-overview&catid=35%3Aabout-the-foundation&Itemid=1
9. ^ http://www.lums.edu.pk/docs/lums_suppliment_25_years.pdf
10. ^ http://www.jsacademy.com.pk/
11. ^ http://mjsf.net/backup/nus_program.html
12. ^ http://www.financesalon.net/index.php/group_thread/view/id-9366
13. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=65
14. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=65#Vocational_training
15. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.js.com/uploads/JSCLJune2009R.pdf
16. ^ http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&Itemid=66
17. ^ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C09%5C14%5Cstory_14-9-2008_pg12_5
18. ^ http://www.docstoc.com/docs/82095601/Financial-Analysis-of-Jahangir-Siddiqui-Investment-Limited-_Final-Draft_
19. ^ http://www.js.com/uploads/JSCLReport2008.pdf
20. ^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/86094/acumen-fund-fighting-global-poverty-with-business-expertise/
21. ^ ^{a b c} http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=67
22. ^ http://www.acumenfund.org/about-us/partners.html
23. ^ ^{a b} http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=56
24. ^ ^{a b c} http://mjsf.net/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=68
25. ^ http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Category:2005_Kashmir_earthquake
26. ^ http://www.recoveryplatform.org/assets/tools_guidelines/Early%20Recovery%20Pakistan.pdf
27. ^ http://www.scribd.com/doc/58222408/12/The-Mahvash-Jahangir-Siddiqui-Foundation
28. ^ http://www.lifesaversystems.com/become-a-lifesaver/pakistan-appeal
29. ^ http://www.ontheground.pk/node/1899
30. ^ http://knowledge.allianz.com/?639/flood-pakistan-aid-allianz-reconstruction
31. ^ http://mjsf.net/backup/floodrelief.php
32. ^ http://www.js.com/pakistan-financial-news-latest_148.asp
33. ^ http://unportal.un.org.pk/sites/UNPakistan/Lists/Latest%20News/DispForm.aspx?ID=202
34. ^ http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/paki-s21.shtml
35. ^ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C10%5C15%5Cstory_15-10-2011_pg10_3
36. ^ ^{a b} http://enewspaper.com.pk/3330/mahvash-and-jahangir-siddiqui-foundation-and-js-bank-flood-relief-efforts-underway-in-sindh
37. ^ http://www.brecorder.com/general-news/single/599/172/1241971/
38. ^ http://www.floodrelief.pk/
39. ^ http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Business/27-Sep-2011/MJSF-JS-Banks-relief-efforts

External links

• "The MJSF Official Website [1]"
• "The JS Academy Official Website [2]"
• "The Finance Salon [3]"
• "The JS Group Official Website [4]"
• "The Daily Times Official Website [5]"
• The Docstoc [6]"
• "The MJSF Official Website [7]"
• "The Allianz Website Blog [8]"
• "United Nations Pakistan Blog [9]"
• "World Socialist Website [10]"
• "E-NewsPaper [11]"
• “Charity Vault [12]”
• “Business Recorder | 14 October 2011 [13]”
• “Daily Times Newspaper |15 October 2011 [14]”
• “The Nation Newspaper | 27 September 2011 [15]”
• “Acumen Fund Blog [16]”
• “Civil and Social Organizations [17]”
• “University of Sindh [18]”
• “Scribd [19]
• “On the Ground [20]”
• “Flood Relief Pakistan [21]”
• “Life Saver System [22]”
• “Digi Planet [23]”
• “Acumen Fund [24]”
• “Express Tribune [25]”