Largest volunteer ambulance organisation

Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) began his ambulance service in 1948 ferrying injured people to the hospital. Today, his radio linked ambulance fleet is 500-vehicles strong and operates all over Pakistan, through $5 million (£3,050,000) funding raised annually. Edhi has also established 300 relief centres, three air ambulances, 24 hospitals, three-drug rehabilitation centres, women's centres, free dispensaries, adoption programmes and soup kitchens that feed 100,000 people a month. He has paid for and supervised the training of 17,000 nurses. The ambulance service even picks up corpses, and the organisation arranges Muslim burials. Edhi has not taken a vacation in 45 years.