About us
Muhammadi Foundation is a non-governmental organisation in Ghori Garden, Islamabad, caring for children who have lost a father — through Muhammadi Aghosh and Parsa Home.
Our story
Aghosh means an embrace. Not a shelter, not a facility, not a programme. When this foundation chose to call its work Muhammadi Aghosh, it set a standard that is harder to meet than the word “orphanage” would have been.
We work from Street No. 3, House No. 2, Ghori Garden, Islamabad. We are a registered non-governmental organisation, and more than 54,000 people follow what we do (opens in a new tab).
What started as care for individual children has become a set of commitments: sponsorship, schooling, clothing before winter, online classes, and now a residential home for orphan girls being built on the edge of the city.
Losing a father should not mean losing a childhood.
That is the whole argument. Everything on this page is how we act on it.
Mission & vision
One promise for the children in our care today, and one for the Pakistan we want them to grow up in.
Good health, the best education we can reach, and a future worth preparing for — for every orphan child in our care.
A Pakistan where no orphaned child is raised by chance.
Where every one of them has a name someone remembers, a door that is always open, and a future they were actually prepared for rather than left to find.
Our girls are our pride. Their future is our responsibility.
Our values
Six commitments behind every decision, from who we admit to how we ask for money.
Aghosh means an embrace. A child who comes to us is treated as family, not as an intake number. The word was chosen on purpose and we are held to it.
No child is photographed, named or described in a way that would shame them later. A donation is never worth a child's self-respect.
Qur'an, character and formal education are taught together, not one after the other. Both belong to the same upbringing.
Our hours are listed as always open, and for a children's home that is literal. Someone is there.
Zakat, Sadaqah and general donations are amanah. They are spent on what they were given for, and we will account for them to anyone who asks.
An education and a building both outlive the person who paid for them. We would rather do that than hand out relief once and leave.
What we provide
Taken from the foundation's own literature. They begin the day a child is admitted, not eventually.
School fees, books, uniform
Safe, permanent residence
Regular, properly nourishing meals
Uniforms, winter clothes, shoes
Routine treatment and emergencies
Safe travel to and from school
Qur'an, faith and character
Admissions
Five steps, in this order. No fee is charged to the family at any point.
Usually a widowed mother, sometimes a relative or a neighbour. Most often by phone or WhatsApp.
The father's death certificate, the mother's CNIC and the child's NADRA B-Form confirm who the child is and what has happened.
We sit with the mother or guardian and understand what the household actually needs before deciding anything.
Into sponsorship, or into residential care at Parsa Home. No fee is charged to the family at any point.
Education, a place to live, food, clothing, medical care, transport and Islamic learning start immediately, not eventually.
Three documents are enough to start: the father’s death certificate, the mother’s CNIC and the child’s NADRA B-Form. Photographs are enough to begin; originals are checked later.
Central team, Islamabad
These are the people who run Muhammadi Foundation day to day. Any of them can be reached through the office on 0314 9032724.
Chairman
General Secretary
Joint General Secretary
Finance Secretary
Joint Finance Secretary
Information Secretary
Admin Officer
Director Education
Director Medical
Legal Advisor
Accountability & transparency
Zakat, Sadaqah and general donations are amanah. Each is spent on what it was given for, and we will account for it to anyone who asks.
If you want to know exactly where your donation went, ask us. We will tell you, and you are welcome to come and look.
You are giving money to people you have not met, for children you will probably never meet. Scepticism is healthy. Three things you can do:
Who runs the foundation
Muhammadi Foundation is led by its chairman, Mirza Fayyaz Ahmed, whose name and photograph appear on the foundation’s own public appeals across Islamabad, together with a central team of ten. If you have a question about how this place is run, that is who it reaches.
Where we work
The office is at Street No. 3, House No. 2, Ghori Garden, Islamabad 46000. It is where donations are received, admissions are discussed, and the day-to-day running of the foundation happens.
Construction is under way a short distance away, on open ground with the hills behind it. The drawing alongside is the architect’s impression of the planned Muhammadi Aghosh building — what the home we are building is designed to look like, not a photograph of it.
What happens next
The ground is cleared and the foundations are poured. Admissions for 2026 are already open.
