Faisal Edhi

He grew up inside the work. Richard Covington's 2004 profile of the foundation for Saudi Aramco World recalls him at seven accompanying his father to recover the corpse of a murder victim — an experience that left him sick and sleepless for a week — and by ten riding with his father on ambulance calls; as a young man of 26 he was in charge of the ambulance service and working to make it self-sustaining, and he organised the landscaping of Edhi Village as part of its self-help programme. The foundation was a family concern run at Sunday meetings at the Clifton girls' home, where Edhi, Bilquis and their children conferred over the centres' problems. ¹

No reliable source gives his birth date. The century queue that prompted this entry gives 1975, but the only age stated in any serious source — 26 in the 2004 profile — points to about 1977–78 instead, and nothing else attests a year. His record therefore carries no birth date rather than a guessed one. ¹

Frail and weak in his last years, Abdul Sattar Edhi appointed Faisal managing trustee earlier in 2016, and on the founder's death that July the son took over as head of the foundation. Days later he was its public spokesman, telling journalists at Karachi on 13 July 2016 that negative propaganda against his father and the foundation — hardline attacks on the cornea donation his father had pledged and on the foundation's sheltering of abandoned infants — might hamper efforts to collect funds. Under his leadership the foundation has continued its work on its founder's principles: funded by public donations alone, refusing government support, and serving without discrimination. In April 2020 he personally handed the Prime Minister a donation of ten million rupees to the coronavirus relief fund, and on 23 April 2021 he wrote to the Prime Minister of India offering to enter India with fifty ambulances and a team of volunteers to help against the Covid-19 pandemic; in March 2020 the foundation had donated US$200,000 to Iran's pandemic effort. ^{2 3 4 5}

His faith is recorded as unknown, and the case is flagged for the founder. His father's record documents the father's own non-affiliation — Abdul Sattar Edhi said he was "neither for religion or against it" and that human rights was his real religion. That position belongs to the father; under this museum's rules a parent's documented stance is family background for the son and counts neither for nor against any affiliation of his own. Of Faisal Edhi himself the sources record work and public defence of the foundation, and no statement of personal affiliation or school anywhere. ^{2 3 1}

• The defined source entities cited above, recorded in data/source/.
• Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact.