Pakistan’s ‘Mother Teresa’ Continues Aid Work Amid Instability and Violence

Abdul Sattar Edhi, the 83-year-old humanitarian known as Pakistan’s Mother Teresa for his work with the poorest of his country’s poor, collects millions of dollars in donations every year, the Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Edhi owns one set of clothes and often sleeps in a storage room at his Edhi Foundation, which supports a national network of hospitals, mobile pharmacies, ambulance services, and centers for orphans, the elderly, people with mentally illness, and other vulnerable people.

While Mr. Edhi is widely revered in Pakistan, ambulances—usually given safe passage during gunfights and ethnic battles, even by the Taliban—were shot at during July riots in Karachi, a sign of deteriorating conditions in the country, the Times writes.