Chhipa Welfare Association
| Abbreviation | CWA |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2007 |
| Type | International nongovernmental organization |
| Legal status | Association |
| Purpose | Social welfare work |
| Headquarters | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Location |
|
Region served | Karachi |
Founder | Ramzan Chhipa |
| Website | chhipa.org |
Chhipa Welfare Association, commonly known as Chhipa, is a Pakistani non-profit welfare organization founded in 2007 by Ramzan Chhipa. It is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan.
The 1987 Karachi car bombing at Bohri Bazaar led Ramzan Chhipa to found Chhipa Welfare Association.[1]
Its stated mission is a strong commitment to serving the people without discrimination of any caste, creed or colour under all circumstances, where frequent road accidents, sudden events, and emergencies occur daily. The Chhipa Welfare Association is a non-governmental organization in Pakistan. Its activities include financial aid and free or low-cost food to people with low income. The general public, philanthropists and the business community supports this organization with their donations.[2]
The services include:
- Chhipa Ambulance Service[3]
- Chhipa Dastarkhawan[4]
- Chhipa Orphanage
- Chhipa Home
- Chhipa Morgue
- Chhipa Kitchen
- Chhipa Monthly Ration Bag
- Chhipa Ritual Bathing Room
- Chhipa Free Ghusal & Kaffan
- Chhipa Mobile Morgue
- Chhipa Graveyard
- Chhipa Jhoola[2]
- Chhipa Newborn Home
- Chhipa Old Home
- Chhipa Women Shelter Home
Activities
[edit]Ambulances
[edit]The Chhipa Welfare Association runs a number of ambulance centres in Karachi. The ambulances are basic vans with room for a stretcher, for transportation to a hospital but without any medical staff in the ambulance.[3]
CHHIPA AMBULANCE. The humanitarian services of Chhipa Welfare Association, with a large fleet of dedicated fleet of ambulances, staffed by paramedics and equipped with a first aid box and an oxygen cylinder, spread over Chhipa Ambulance Emergency Centres located at prominent places, at various road roundabouts and near hospitals across the city of Karachi and other regions of Pakistan, on alert––around the clock all year around––for providing immediate help and assistance to the needy, the seriously injured victims of road accidents, train collisions, disasters and calamities, shifting the sick and emergency patients, rushing them to hospitals and medical facilities.[3][5]
While the responding time is within 05 minutes, which further initiates the rescue operation without any delay.
Normally, Chhipa Ambulances––24 hours/7 days a week––remain engaged on roads in lifting and shifting the seriously injured victims of road accidents, the needy, the sick, burnt out and severed body parts, emergency patients, partially decomposed and unidentified, decomposed and mutilated bodies, lying in drains and sewers, dead bodies––to hospitals & medical centres in attempts to save the valuable human lives, all taken care off by Chhipa Volunteers.[3]
Palna
[edit]The association provides a means for people who are unable to care for their newborn children to give them up for adoption, as an alternative to abandoning the child, and to lessen the risk of infanticide. The ambulance centers include a palna (lit. "cradle") where people can leave their babies; the Chhipa Association can then arrange for the infant to be adopted.[2][6][7]
Social worker Ramzan Chhipa is the first legal guardian until after a married childless couple is handed the infant for adoption. Chhipa Welfare Association maintains the complete record and the legality of all such unwanted children that are placed in Chhipa Jhoola. After the married childless couple has been selected, the child is then handed over to them in a simple adoption ceremony at the Chhipa Head Office. After that social worker Ramzan Chhipa regularly visits the homes of the adopting parents and monitors the well-being and upbringing of the adopted child.[8]
Sacrificial animals
[edit]The ambulance centers also accept animals that have been sacrificed on the occasion of a child's birth (Aqiqah) or as other forms of voluntary charity (Sadaqah).[9] These sacrifices are prepared as food for people with low-income.[10]
Home & Orphanage
[edit]This welfare association provides the free home & orphanage.
- CHHIPA HOME FOR NEWBORN
- CHHIPA ORPHANAGE
- CHHIPA OLD HOME
- CHHIPA WOMEN SHELTER.
Awards
[edit]- On 23 March 2013, Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan conferred Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) to Ramzan Chhipa for his social welfare work.[11]
- On 22 June 2013, Ramzan Chhipa received the Gold Medal by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) Achievement Award for his work with the Chhipa Welfare Association.[12]
- Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Karachi and Governor of Sindh for his Social Welfare Services in 2014.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Round-the-clock rescue facility: 1987 Bohri Bazaar blasts led Ramzan Chhipa to set up service". The Express Tribune. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Athar Khan and Ishrat Ansari (15 October 2013). "Round-the-clock rescue facility: 1987 bohri Bazaar blasts led Ramzan Chhipa to set up service". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ a b c d (Hasan Mansoor) Emergency response Dawn (newspaper), Published 21 July 2013, Retrieved 14 May 2021
- ^ Officials barred from removing Chhipa Dastarkhwan from footpath Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 28 May 2015, Retrieved 14 May 2021
- ^ Woman killed, six hurt as old building partially collapses in Karachi Geo TV News website, Published 17 July 2016, Retrieved 14 May 2021
- ^ KARACHI: Newborn girl found dead in Lyari Dawn (newspaper), Published 16 January 2010, Retrieved 14 May 2021
- ^ Fakhar Durrani (26 April 2018). "Female infanticide a growing threat in Karachi". Geo TV News website. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Chhipa hands over two newborn babies to childless couples Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 1 June 2009, Retrieved 14 May 2021
- ^ "Sadqa & Aqiqa Goats". Chippa Welfare Association.
- ^ "Footprints: Food for thought". DAWN News. 8 September 2015.
- ^ "Recognising excellence: Manto among 192 recipients of top civil awards". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 13 August 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ "Achievement Awards ceremony: FPCCI confers 61 gold medals on businessmen". Business Recorder (newspaper). 23 June 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Ramzan Chhipa conferred honorary DLitt degree (by the University of Karachi) The News International (newspaper), Published 16 November 2014, Retrieved 14 May 2021
