Achievements

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The achievements on the part of Omair Sana Welfare Foundation can be classified into two broad categories i.e. Thalassemia related and Non-Thalassemia related

Below are the highlights of the work the Foundation carries out in the Thalassemia domain.

The achievements on the part of Omair Sana Welfare Foundation can be classified into two broad categories i.e. Thalassemia  and Non-Thalassemia 
Below are the highlights of the work the Foundation carries out in the Thalassemia domain.

•  Spends Rs. 500,000/- per month for the treatment of more than 100 thalassemic children. The cost includes required medicine and also the blood change. These children are fully supported by the Foundation.

•  Partially supports over 50 thalassemic children, with the remaining cost financed by their families. Omair Sana Welfare Foundation allocates about Rs. 200, 000 for this purpose. This budget is used for various blood tests and medicine.

•  Contributes partially up to the amount between Rs. 3,00,000 and Rs. 500,000 for Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) for extremely needy patients, which altogether costs about Rs.1,800,000.

•  Offers medical assistance to hemophilia patients and spends about Rs. 200,000 per month under this head.

•  Provides the initial medical help to the needy patients for BMT, which cost Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 35,000 per patient.

•  Runs a school for thalassemic children where they are taught, along-with the basic education, about the complication of their disease and also about the prevention & safety from it. Spends about Rs. 20,000 per month on this account, whereas so far Rs. 100,000 has been spent on account of copies, books, uniform and school fees for the children who are seeking education in other schools.

•  Organizes Eid Milan and Birthday Parties, Picnics, Milad etc for thalassemic children. Omair Sana Welfare Foundation dreams to see these children leading as happy a life as normal children do. We strive to give these less-fortunate children every reason to smile, which also comes in the form of Sacrificial animals distributed among them on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. An amount of Rs. 400,000 was spent on this account last year, but the happiness they sought out of it was actually priceless. Recently, a grand fun gala was arranged at PAF Museum for the thalassemic children, giving them an opportunity to celebrate the independence day. A blood camp was also set up at the venue for the visitors to donate blood.

•  Organizes workshops and seminars to create awareness about thalassemia and for genetic counseling. 

•  Holds medical camps in remote areas such as Turbet, Badin etc in association with local medical centers

Although, we are primarily focused on changing the lives of Thalassemic children for better, we have gone a step ahead and diversified into other forms of Social Welfare Activites. In particular, if there is a natural calamity in any part of our beloved home country, the Foundation is committed to be there for relief efforts.
Following are few examples of other activities undertaken.

•  October 8, 2005 , one of the most terrible days in the history of Pakistan , when a horrible earthquake, registered on the Richter scale 7.7, struck Azad Jammu & Kashmir and the northern areas of Pakistan including Balakot, Mansehra, Abbotabad, etc and took its toll on around 80,000 lives. Many children were buried under collapsed school buildings. So many towns and villages in northern Pakistan were completely wiped out in a blink of eye, with other surrounding areas also suffering from severe damage.

Omair Sana Welfare Foundation initiated relief activities by setting up medical camps in Balakot and Muzaffarabad, to start with. Later on during the reconstruction phase, the Foundation selected a village called ‘ Malsi ' situated near Ghari Dopatta, Muzaffarabad and provided the local residents with shelter and other basic necessities of life.

In Malsi, the Foundation constructed 100 houses to help the local dwellers withstand difficult conditions such as cold weather, snow fall, rain and mild aftershocks. Each house was constructed on an area of 40 square yards and consisted of two rooms, kitchen and bathroom. The Foundation has so far spent Rs. 8,000,000 on the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the village, which includes construction of around 100 houses, a mosque, a school, a general store, and a medical dispensary. Besides, collective marriages and collective sacrifice were arranged on Eid ul Azha on which around Rs. 500,000 was spent. Also, the sufferers were provided with food, medication, warm clothes, blankets etc and financial assistance, where needed.

Despite being thousand miles apart, the founder and President of the Foundation, Dr. Kashif Hussain Ansari, was very instrumental in mobilizing and overseeing the relief efforts. Hence, in the process, “Malsi” became the first village reconstructed by any NGO.

•  In 2007, when heavy rains caused serious damage to the Gadap area (the suburb of Karachi ) and Turbat (Balochistan), Omair Sana Welfare Foundation helped the victims with shelter and other basic necessities of life. The Foundation, on this occassion, spent around Rs. 200,000 and Rs. 250,000 in Gadap and Turbat, respectively.

•  Another step taken by Omair Sana Welfare Foundation is to offer some relief to prisoners, who otherwise lead a miserable life in the prison. In this connection, the Foundation arranged a grand lunch in Malir District Jail, where 3,500 prisoners were treated with a scrumptious meal, a rarity under normal prison circumstances, spending about Rs. 240,000. The Foundation also plans to hold regular medical camps and other healthy activities for the prison inmates.

•  The Foundation periodically holds free medical camps in poor localities, where not only check up is done but also medicines are given away.

•  The Foundation last year stretched its outreach and carried out relief activities in Bangladesh where certain areas had been badly hit by floods. Around Rs. 500,000 was spent on providing shelter, food, clothes and water pumps to the affected people.