About Organization
  • Established in: 2007

  • Registration Law: Societies Registration Act 1860

  • Themes & Interventions: Non-formal Education, Clean Drinking Water, Health, Women, Livelihood

  • What We Do: Awareness Raising, Research, Service Delivery

Contact Details
  • Head Office at Karachi

  • Fatima Hajiyani Hall Opposite Casualty Ward Gate Civil Hospital Karachi Pakistan PO BOX Number 10619

  • Phone: 02132728765

  • Email: info@kgnwt.org

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Goal 1 No Poverty, Goal 2 Zero Hunger, Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing, Goal 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Introduction

Khwaja Gharib Nawaz Welfare Trust (KGNWT) is an aid and development charity with over 20 years of grass-roots experience that helps low-income families to alleviate their poverty and suffering by taking care of their basic necessities of food, water, shelter, health, education, and employment – all without compromising their dignity. In addition, KGNWT also rapidly implements emergency humanitarian relief in areas that have been struck by calamity.

Our Projects

FOOD

Our Food Projects help feed millions of people a year from providing families Ration Packs, to Mobile Kitchens feeding the poor and our Ramadan Food Camps and Qurbani distribution projects.

WATER FOR LIFE

Our Water Projects range from providing Water Pumps in the most deprived areas to installing large Water Treatment plants helping thousands.

HEALTH

Our Health Projects vary from helping individuals to supporting institutions such as the Fatima Bai Hospital and providing Medical Camps in the most deprived areas of Pakistan.

EDUCATION

KGNWT has donated over Rs 12.5m / £75,000 / $125,000 / AED 465,000 to the Memon Industrial & Technical Institute in Korangi, Karachi, for the construction of a women’s vocational wing.

ROZGAAR

KGNWT have launched three projects, the ‘Rickshaw’, ‘Motorbike’ and the ‘Sewing Machine’ Assistance projects to help empower poor jobless people with a means to earn their daily livelihoods and get themselves and their families out of poverty.

MARRIAGE ASSISTANCE

KGNWT realises the difficulty poor families are in and provides marriage funds and, with your generous help, to date Rs 16m / £114,750 / $183,600 has been spent on ‘Ijtimai Shaadi’ (Collective Wedding Ceremonies) of 306 couples.