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SARIM BURNEY TRUST

INTERNATIONAL

KANZA ADNAN
NIHA JAWAID
BABAR SAEED
BILAL VICHI

Sarim Burney Trust International

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 Trust
International, 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 we
interviewed and all those who were kind enough to lend us their
valuable time in making this report a success for us.

Yours Sincerely
Kanza Adnan
Niha Jawaid
Babar Saeed
Bilal 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. The
World 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 INTERNATIONAL


ORGANIZATION
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 another
being. 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 personal
connection 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 individuals
sitting 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
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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-five
million 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 shelter
homes 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 only
trust 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 the
downtrodden 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 different
government 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 peons
and 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 to
England.
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 and
are 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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wish for is a dignified death. Mrs. Burney took these women in and
treated them like a child should treat their mother in her old age.
SBTI takes care of their treatment and medicines and make sure
that they experience no discomfort. The young girls at the shelter
have been trained by Mrs. Burney to treat these ladies like their
own grandmothers and take care of them at all times.
Here you would also meet young girls who with the fear of losing
their sanctity ran away from their homes and saved their lives by
coming to the shelter. SBTI also opened its doors for girls who got
deviated and went onto the darker path because of which they were
forsaken by their families. These girls get a chance to rehabilitate
and also learn from their mistakes. SBTI not only provides a roof on
their heads but also a three time full meal, education and training
to function in the real world whenever they finally leave the shelter.
When these girls come of age Mr. and Mrs. Burney also find for
them suitable matches and marries them off with dignity so they
can start the next chapter of their life like any other girl and forget
all the darkness of the past.
FINANCIAL AID

Sarim Burney Trust International provides financial aid for people


who are unable to pay off their debts on time and the burden of
interest keeps building on them. This service is provided to few very
select people who are truly worthy of this aid for example widows
who for some reason took loans from someone who charges a lot of
interest and are now unable to pay it back due to unavailability of
funds and no sources of income. This service is also not publicized
because a lot of people are in need of such help but the limited
resources at Sarim Burney Trust International does not allow them
to cater to everyones needs.

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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.
CHILD ADOPTION

Whenever a child comes to Sarim Burney Trust International, their


utmost 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 to
commit 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 home
budgeting, 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 shelter
homes, 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 and
short-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 Burney
Trust 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 the
form 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 operations
of 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 decided
on 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 receive
dividend 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

3m

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. MR
Sarim 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 used
to 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 the
parent 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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AMBULANCE SERVICE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY


MR Sarim Burney highly appreciate the work of the two big
ambulance services that are EDHI and CHIPA. But he believes that
the quantity of the ambulances does not matter, the thing that he
plans to implement is the Free of cost ambulance service all across
the nation.
Edhi, Chipa and Aman ambulances are not free of cost and they
take PKR 300 at an average. He intends to give more priority to
provide services in the areas where there are not many facilities
(lower class areas ). The trust aims to provide equipped ambulances
with professional staff. The trust believes that importance of
ambulance reaching in time is the most important thing required to
save life so the trust aims to purchase high efficient vehicles which
can reach the hospital on time. The challenge the trust face to start
the project is the lack of funds because of the believe of the people
that the trust will not use the funds to start the ambulance service
properly. Just because Sarim Burney trust is only known for the
shelter for orphans. The aim of the trust is to start the ambulance
service from Karachi and then moving into all over Pakistan. They
also looking forward to have alliance with other organizations in
other cities to get started with the ambulance service.
After the ambulance service their next aim is to
Stop national and international human smuggling
Human smuggling is the area in which the trust has been working
since years. They have achieved to stop in the areas in Karachi or
near Karachi but they plan to stop it nationally. In the shelter
house there were three African girls who were smuggled and were
rescued by the trust and they reported that they do not face any
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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 rescues
the 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 to
achieve 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 build
training 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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References
www.sarimburneytrust.org
www.dailymotion.com/sarimburneytrust
www.wikipedia.com

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