It has been over a decade since Relieve Humanity started, and here is the story of how we began.
In the summer of 2012, Ahmad Rahman travelled to Karachi, Pakistan. During his time there, he experienced firsthand the perils of the healthcare system. Though he could navigate the system with relative ease due to his ability to afford treatment and medication, the experience still left him wondering about those not as privileged as himself. He came to the stark realization that those unable to afford treatment or medicine would be left with the heart-wrenching choice between self and family, illness and hunger, between pain and survival.
From this realization came the launch of Relieve Humanity on July 18, 2012, a registered not-for-profit organization in Ontario, Canada. Relieve Humanity then opened Shifa Welfare Free Medical Centre in Orangi, an impoverished suburb in Karachi, Pakistan and one of the largest poor regions in the world. Then in December 2017, we launched the Ehsaan Trust Hospital in Faisalabad, Pakistan.
