KeH - Karwan-e-Hayat

Karwan-e-Hayat (KeH) is a non-profit, charity organization and is active in caring for mentally indigent poor patients since its establishment in 1983.

Karwan-e-Hayat runs an outpatient facility at Khayaban-e-Jami and a Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre at Keamari, in Karachi.

It is the only non-profit, non-government organization in mental health field in Karachi.

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Karwan-e-Hayat mission is to:

• Work for relief, prevention, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of psychologically distressed and underprivileged persons.

• Raise public awareness and foster behavioral change in the community (by holding camps, seminars and other means) that mental illness can be managed with scientific treatment.

• Organize, train and maintain a team of dedicated psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to provide the service of mental health care.

PCP CERTIFICATION

Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) is a recognized certification body for charitable organizations on their working standards, procedures and financial systems. PCP has recently conducted audit/survey of Karwan-e-Hayat facilities at its two centers in Karachi (Khayaban-e-Jami and PCRC Kemari).

We are pleased to announce that Karwan-e-Hayat has been awarded certification with 92% marks in Financial Management and 78.8% in overall assessment of the organization. This is a matter of pride for us and a recognition of the best practices, standards, procedures and program delivery systems being applied at Karwan-e-Hayat.

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Male ward at Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre

NEW: PSYCHIATRIST Post Vacant in Karwan-e-Hayat. Details

NEW: List of Medical Staff at Karwan-e-Hayat. Click here

Anwar Maqsood's Message on behalf of Karwan-e-Hayat:

Karwan-e-Hayat's Message of Awareness:

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KARWAN-E-HAYAT:

Runs an outpatient clinic at its corporate offices on Khayaban-e-Jami, near Defence Society, Karachi, where nearly 500 deserving patients receive free psychiatric consultation and medicines every month.
Operates the recently established Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre, near KPT Hospital, Keamari, Karachi.

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NEWSLETTERS

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NEW: July 2009

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Patients being guided to produce art & decorative items at the Psychiatric Care and Rehabilitation Centre

PROBLEM'S BACKGROUND – MENTALLY ILL PATIENT POPULATION
Scientific and accurate data on incidence of mental illness in Pakistan is not available. Global criteria, as developed by WHO, indicate that 10% of total population worldwide suffers from mental illness.

Using this global criterion, a figure of 1.5 million mentally ill persons is quoted for Karachi.

TREATMENT FACILITIES IN KARACHI
Treatment facilities available in Karachi for mentally ill persons are grossly inadequate.

Karachi has only 80 psychiatrists and 450 beds to treat mentally ill patients.

The city’s facilities for inpatient treatment of acute and sub-acute psychiatric patients are nowhere near the requirement. Karwan-e-Hayat works towards alleviating the problem.

Karachi did not have a centre for care and rehabilitation of mentally ill patients, until Karwan-e-Hayat established its facility at Keamari.

FUNDS REQUIREMENTS FOR 2009-2010

Request for Donations and Zakat

We hope that you will find our mission and activities worthy of your support, and we earnestly look forward to your help.

Poor mentally ill patients have no hope of help unless they have access to free psychiatric intervention.

Please help us to help them.

Karwan-e-Hayat needs Rs.30 million for the year 2008-09 to maintain and run its two locations.

Male OPD at Karwan-e-Hayat Corporate Office on Khayaban-e-Jami

Donors in USA who wish to avail themselves of 501-C-3 facility are requested to make their cheques for donation to Karwan-e-Hayat in the name of Caravan of Life, a

501-C-3 organization based in USA, showing Karwan-e-Hayat in the Memo column. The cheques may please be sent to the following address:

Mr. Khusro Karamat Elley
Director, Karwan-e-Hayat
79, Further Lane
Chappaqua, NY 10514
Telephone: 914 2389691

For donors from countries other than USA, who wish to send donations and zakat by wire transfer, details of our Bank accounts are given at the back of this brochure. Also given is our mailing address for those who may prefer to send their donations and zakat through postal mail.

Donors from Pakistan can send their donations and zakat either directly to our bank accounts or to us at our mailing address.

As a large part of the treatment is given on charity basis, your zakat donations will be utilized only for persons who qualify for zakat. Therefore, please advise us if your contribution to Karwan-e-Hayat is on account of zakat.

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