1. The Sarhadi Yatim Khana orphanage in Mardan, KPK has been serving orphaned children for 76 years since it was established in 1938. 2. It was founded by poet Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi to prevent Muslim orphans from being converted to Christianity under British rule. 3. Currently there are 80 children living in the orphanage from families where the father died (59%), mother died (15%), or both parents died (8%). The orphanage provides food, education, medical care, and other basic necessities to the children.

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Nadia Bawar BS. Economics Department 8th semester
Govt Girls Post Graduate College Mardan.
Nadia Bawar@ gmail.com
Report on Serhadi Yatim Khana Orphanage Mardan.
The history of Orphanage in Mardan is very old. It was given the name Sarhadi Yatim
Khana in 1938.It was the first orphanage in KPK at that time. It is known by its old name
until now. It is a major orphanage in kpk and important due to its increasing number of
children with basic facilities. The Orphanage has been serving the children for 76 years.
Its founder was the poet Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi. He got two gold medals for his
services one from Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa in (2001) and second from Government of
Punjab in (2006) after his death. The orphanage is situated on Shamsi Road Mardan. In
its surrounding there is govt primary school and DHQ hospital Mardan . Before
the establishment of Pakistan, the Orphans in Mardan area were converted to
Christianity very fast because there was strong British power to give a big helping
hand to the poor helpless orphans. Their objective was to capture the powers on the
locality basis of Pakistan, for this purpose they want to shake the believes of the
Muslims. At that time Christianity was on peak. Non-Muslims were taking care of
Muslim orphans and were preaching Christianity. The poet Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan
Ghazi was become seriously anxious about it. Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi wanted
the Muslims to be liberal in their dealings either religious or political. They suffered a lot
in prison. He was the first prisoner of Tehreek-e-Pakistan from Mardan and KPK. One
year before Shimla conference when he propagated league instead of Congress, the then
minister Dr. Khan imprisoned him. His house was searched by them, and was charged
with false murder cases. Congress snatched Orphanage land that was cost of 80000 Rs.
Orphanage had char sad rupiah grant and bank amount also captured by them. Congress
done their failed struggle to exiled Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi with Orphan kids. The
dispute between Orphanage and congress ministry reached at that position where a five
years old child named Saeed-ur-Rehman got Shahadat. This institution has played a vital

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role in the Freedom Movement of Pakistan. For this purpose Qazi attended memorable
meetings with Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Allama Mohammad Iqbal ,
Liaquat Ali Khan , Sardar Abdur-rab Nishtar and Khan Abdul Qayoom Khan etc to
discuss the issues of Muslims. These personalities encouraged him through meetings
and writing letters to him for taking a big step to save Muslims from bending
towards Christianity. To solve their problems there also need some financial help. Qazi
Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi was the owner of 18.5 Acres or 600 kanal irrigated land. He
met the expences of Orphanage from these irrigated land which was fully donated for
Orphans for the continuity of their quality education. If there was extreme need of
finance, they also sold piece of land for it. It is strange to know that Qazi Abdul Akbar
Khan Ghazi has no personal property now, they spend all their property for the sake of
Orphanage. Thus the study noted that it was totally spent for an Orphanage. Due to
limited resources Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi started it in a portion of his personal
home with a few children. At first there were 10 children. The number of children
increased from year to year, i.e. 40, 60, 80,100 etc. When the foundation of the
orphanage was strengthened with the passage of time, it gradually facilitated the
children by providing them basic needs like nutritious food , health facilities , fancy
clothes , quality education. There also has the facility of Mosque where kids pray and do
recitation of the Holy Quran. Television facility is also provided for entertainment. It is
noted from the study that more focus was given on education, because that the quality
education give more success to the orphans in their society and decreased the
disparity between orphans and non-orphans. The number of children is increasing day
by day so they donated his personal home for Orphanage and now lives at the upper
floor of the house. The main step was taken by Qazi Abdul Akbar Khan Ghazi
and was passed away in 1978,but the journey of his success was carried on by his
beloved son Qazi Mohammad Suqlain who left their Govt job BPS-17 in NADRA. It
is noticed from the study that they provided a standard shape to the orphanage to
complete his father’s mission. There are the efforts of Qazi Mohammad Suqlain who
provided peaceful environment to the Orphanage. It is stated that they facilitated
everything that should be in one house for children. Qazi Mohammad Suqlain passed on
Thursday 20th March 2014. Now the responsibilities of Orphanage are handling by

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Operation Manager Qazi Mohammad Khizar Hayat and Qazi Muhammad Hasnain.
Following facilities are hostel provided, bed rooms, study rooms, transport, digital lab,
T.v lounge, sports ground, recreation areas etc.
It is evident that Orphanage is classified kid’s education wise.
Table 1: Classification of kids
Education wise classification Primary Middle High
school
No of kids 24 30 6
Expenses of these facilities are shown from year 2008 to 2013
are:
Table 2: Expenses year wise
24
30
6
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Primary Middle High school
Classification of kids
No of kids

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Years No of
kids
Food
expences
Entertainment
expences
Electricity
Expenses
Stationary
expences
Clothing
expences
Medical
expences
Sports
expences
Total
2008 60 904805 2432 184326 8543 120757 195588 2856 1419307
2009 65 1271346 3448 160371 8790 120119 157067 6790 1727931
2010 72 1300607 4326 145760 9044 157740 143959 7543 1768979
2011 78 1276968 2925 140993 33638 108490 230740 9895 1803649
2012 80 1111402 5205 376653 30018 168244 401602 10234 2103358
2013 80 1012936 9725 508393 74010 164146 537812 9674 2316696
The kids of Orphanage do Shopping for Eid festivals. The kids have provided course
environment where the special programs held on milad, Independence Day, Quaid-e-
Azam day, Iqbal day. The number of kids who are classified age wise in Orphanage are
Table 3: Ages of kids:
0
1000000
2000000
3000000
4000000
5000000
6000000
7000000
8000000
9000000
10000000
Expences Year wise

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Age wise classification 1-5 years 5-10 years 10-15years
No of kids 0 25 55
Total 80
The total monthly expenses of children on food, uniform, school fee, medical care,
sports , books/stationary, pocket money including everything is three lakh seventy
thousand(370000).
Percentages:
Table-4: Yearly and monthly expenses:
Items Expenses in Rs
Per Month Per Year
Food 137700 1652400
1-5 years 5-10 years 10-15years
No of kids 0 25 55
0
25
55
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
No of kids

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School Fees Nil 176890
Medical Care 45000 33638
Sports 2500 540000
Books/Stationary 10000 30000
Uniform 5700 120000
Pocket Money 16000 192000
Total 216900 2744928
The total monthly expences on all these items are two lakh sixteen thousand and nine
hundred while per year it is twenty seven lakh fourty four thousand nine hundred and
twenty eight. FSO (friends of society organization) is the regular donar of orphanage
which gives one lakh rupees every month. TMA Mardan and District Zakat Committee
Food
School
Fees
Medical
Care
Sports
Books/St
ationary
Uniform
Pocket
Money
Total
Expences in Rs Per Month 137700 0 45000 2500 10000 5700 16000 216900
Expences in Rs Per Year 1652400 176890 33638 540000 30000 120000 192000 2744928
0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
Yearly and monthly expences
Expences in Rs Per Month Expences in Rs Per Year

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provides grant in Aid. No Foreign Aid has any contribution to Orphanage. The study
revealed that donations from 2008 to 2013 are:
Table 5: Funding’s Classification:
Year Govt donation Private donation Total
2008 493000 3582446 4075446
2009 752000 4053243 4805243
2010 220000 3660715 3880715
2011 220000 4820477 5040477
2012 200000 5280165 5480165
2013 275000 2334000 2609000
Total 2160000 23731046 25891046
0
1000000
2000000
3000000
4000000
5000000
6000000
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total
Fundings Classification
Govt donation Private donation Total

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The study concluded that their expences from 2008 to 2013 are two crore two lakh thirty
thousand three hundred and thirty one. Now in the orphanage there are 80 children. There
are four categories of children.
Table-6: Categories of kids in Orphanage:
Categories of kids No of children Percentage
Father died 59 74%
Mother died 15 18%
Both died 6 8%
Total 80 100%
But cannot afford their children’s basic requirements. At early time the Orphanage
provide skills(tailoring) and education to those children who were dumb and
59
15
6
74% 18% 8%
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Father died Mother died Both died
Categories of Kids
No of children Percentage

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deaf .The orphanage does not keep those children who have no guardians. No
adoption of kids take place from Orphanage. Along with all facilities the orphanage has
created cream students who play a positive role in their society like doctors, engineers,
police officers, Army officers and bankers.
Recommendations:
It is evident from the recent study that the Serhad Orphan house has an outstanding
contribution to the society. Its work is remarkable. The Government and the elite class of
the society needs to help them economically. The Orphan house has not the capability to
facilitate girls Orphans. Concrete steps and suppose of the current KPK Government will
enable this historical Orphan house to facilitate more Orphan children including the girls.
The education level at orphanage is only at Matric if the Govt participates it will further
extend to higher level. Because for any kid it is not a complete stage for their success.
The main objective of the study is to find out that the Orphans must play positive role in
the society if facilitate them positively. The foundation is to promote the welfare of
children in need due to poverty , disease or social injustice in addition to bring about a
positive change in the social structure of the society for a better tomorrow. To focus on
Orphans will decrease the social, cultural and emotional distress in the society. To
facilitate Orphans, shows a result how much they will standardize. By joining
Orphanages mostly kids prevent from child labor and begging. It is noted from the study
that training and education given to Orphans made them independent same to non-
Orphans. The goal of the Orphanage is to create cream students in the society. Thousands
of orphans who got educated from Sarhadi Yateem Khana (SYK) & they are now
enjoying a prosperous life. It shows its big achievement and true spirit for Orphans.