“My son, you will form an organisation. The name will be Waqful Waqifin, and that name is translated into ‘Gift of the Givers’. You will serve all people of all races, of all religions, of all colours, of all classes, of all political affiliations and of any geographical location. You will serve them unconditionally.”  (the message from his spiritual leader, Sufi Sheikh Muhammed Saffer Effendi al Jerrahi in Istanbul)

This is one of our speakers, Dr. Imtiaz Sooliman. A man who went to the most desolate places in the world to serve humanity. Responding to earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, famine, war and kidnappings, he has done it all. His sense of community extends to his work with Gift of the Givers and the motto for the organization is: “Best Among People are those who Benefit Mankind”

Since its inception in 1992, he has grown Gift of the Givers into Africa’s largest disaster relief organisation. It is responsible for a series of firsts: innovating the world’s only containerised mobile hospital, the world’s first groundnut-soya high energy and protein supplement, and they possess Africa’s only “life locator”, a device used to detect people alive under rubble.