Charitable, Educational, and Welfare Appeals to Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Orphanage Visit Report, Seafarers’ Convention Invitation, Qur’an Society Fund Appeal and Housing Society Request

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Sir Salimullah Moslem Orphanage Dacca | Orphan education | Partition of Bengal

Date of publication: 1948

Language: English

Page: 91 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28936

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Sir Salimullah Orphanage -- Dacca -- Seafarers convention -- Holy Qur’an Society | Bihar Relief Fund -- Darus‑Salam housing -- Mohajir rehabilitation | Muslim Mission -- Narikalyan Asram -- Orphan girls -- Baktapur Union -- East Pakistan

Abstract: Fatima Jinnah visiting the Sir Salimullah Orphanage in Dacca (March 1948), where a report details its 241 orphans, technical training, and request for government takeover. Later appeals seek her inauguration of a seafarers’ convention (Chittagong, 1952), donations to the Holy Qur’an Society (Karachi, 1953), financial aid from the Qaid‑e‑Azam Bihar Relief Fund for a housing society (Dacca, 1950s), her patronage of a mission sheltering 315 “stranded Muslim girls” (Dacca, 1955‑56), and a message of sympathy for a union welfare association in Chittagong (1957).

Description: A 1948 report read during Fatima Jinnah’s visit to the Sir Salimullah Orphanage in Dacca outlines the institution’s history since 1909, its 241 orphans (including 87 girls), technical training in weaving and book‑binding, and the hope that the Pakistan government would take over management. Subsequent documents include an invitation to inaugurate the All Pakistan Seafarers’ Convention (Chittagong, May 1952), a fundraising appeal from the Holy Qur’an Society of East Pakistan for schools, libraries, and a journal (Karachi, 1953), a request from the Darus‑Salam Cooperative Housing Society for aid from the Qaid‑e‑Azam Bihar Relief Fund to rehabilitate displaced Bihari refugees, and an appeal for patronage from the Dacca Muslim Mission & Narikalyan Asram which had housed 315 “helpless and stranded Muslim girls.” The final document, from Baktapur Union Welfare Association (Chittagong, 1957), seeks her message of sympathy for their literacy and welfare campaign. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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