About Shaan Welfare Foundation
We began in the largest informal settlement in Asia. We now work across Sindh.
Orangi Town, where we are based, is the largest informal settlement in Asia — about 2.4 million people across 8,000 acres in western Karachi. Most work in the informal economy: daily labour, small trades, piecework done at home. Water is scarce. Formal services are thin.
From there we have grown into other districts of Karachi and across Sindh — free medical camps in Korangi run with Sindh Police, ration and relief wherever it is needed.
We are still not a national charity, and we do not claim to be. We run a kitchen that opens every day, a school, a madrasa, medical camps, and monthly ration for families we know by name.
Everything on this website can be checked. That is deliberate, and it is the whole point.
What that looks like
Verified as of August 2026
200+
Meals served daily
Dastarkhwan, every day since 2014
300+
Students enrolled
Islamic and modern education
1,000+
Families supported
Ration, medical and stipends
12
Years of service
Continuous since 2014
What we hold to
Transparency
Every figure on this site is one we can evidence. We would rather publish a small true number than a large one nobody can check.
Compassion
The Dastarkhwan has no registration, no form and no means test. Anyone who arrives is fed, whoever they are.
Accountability
We are a registered society, our registration number is on every page, and we answer questions about where money went.
Registration
- Registered name
- Shaan Welfare Foundation
- Registration
- KAR NO 066 OF 2024-25
- Registered under
- Societies Act XXI of 1860
- Working since
- 2014
- Where
- Orangi Town, Karachi
Why our banners say something else
In photographs of our earlier work you will see the name Shaan Welfare Society and the registration number 1593.
That is us. The organisation was re-registered as Shaan Welfare Foundation under KAR NO 066 OF 2024-25. The work, the people and the phone numbers did not change — the same numbers on those banners are the ones on this page.
We would rather explain this than leave you wondering why a photograph and a footer disagree.
Who runs this
Anonymous charities are the ones worth worrying about. These are the people responsible for the foundation and its money.
Junaid Khan
President
We are adding photographs and the rest of the team here. If you want to speak to someone before giving, message us and you will reach a person directly.
Rooted in Orangi Town. Working across Sindh.
Every day since 2014. We would rather be checkable than vague.