From Crisis to Childhood
A seven-month-old infant arrived dehydrated and barely breathing. One month of free ICU care later, she was a giggling baby again. Today, she goes to school.
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Two decades ago, Zareen and Arif Ijaz lost their only daughter to hospital negligence. From that devastation rose Jahanara Memorial Trust — providing free and low-cost quality healthcare, education, and skills training to Pakistan's underserved, with radical transparency and zero commercial interests.
Jahanara Ijaz walked into a Lahore hospital upright and conscious. Forty-eight hours later, she was carried home lifeless. She was sixteen. The year was 2005.
Her parents — Zareen and Arif Ijaz — made a choice that most people in their position would not have had the strength to make. Instead of retreating into grief, they turned their loss into a mission. Instead of asking why this happened to them, they asked how they could make sure it never happened to anyone else.
Twenty years and 100,000 patients later, that question is still being answered — every day, at the JMT clinic in Pak Town, by a mother who has never stopped working.
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JMT is not run by influencers, celebrities, or a marketing department. It is run by a mother who lost her daughter to hospital negligence twenty years ago and decided that no other parent should live what she lived. That is the only qualification that matters.
Every rupee that comes to us is trust money. We have never run a paid campaign. People give because they trust us — and that trust has been earned over twenty years, one act of service at a time.
Free checkups, medicines, and emergency care. Top specialists volunteer their time because they trust the cause. Mrs. Zareen pioneered specialist on-call coverage in Lahore's emergency OPDs.
500+ students sponsored, 10,000 books donated. Graduates like Dr. Amir Mehmood, now a radiologist in the UK, represent JMT's ripple effect across generations and continents.
Partnering with Hunar Foundation to turn young people into electricians, nurses, IT professionals, and more — breaking the cycle of poverty through employable skills.
A seven-month-old infant arrived dehydrated and barely breathing. One month of free ICU care later, she was a giggling baby again. Today, she goes to school.
Walking for hours with a four-month-old who had stopped feeding, Razia had been turned away everywhere. At JMT, the answer was different — first the child, then the questions.
Severe asthma attack from Lahore's smog. Because of JMT's insistence on 24/7 specialist on-call coverage, a paediatric pulmonologist reached him in twelve minutes.
From primary school to medical college. JMT sponsorships have produced doctors practising in Pakistan, the UK, and beyond — each one a quiet rebuttal to the idea that poverty is permanent.
Libraries built where there were none. Books placed in hands that had never held one. Education is the only inheritance that cannot be taken away — JMT exists to make sure it reaches those who need it most.
Weekly medical checkups for students from underprivileged backgrounds. Early detection. Nutritional support. Lunch on the premises. Because a child who is hungry cannot learn, and a child who is ill cannot dream.
IT, nursing, electrical, mechanical — every skill is a door opened. JMT and Hunar work together to build sustainable livelihoods, because a skilled hand is a dignified life.
Rs 2,500 funds a free family checkup. Rs 10,000 covers a month of medicines. Rs 25,000 pays for a student's school fees. You choose the amount. We make sure it reaches the person who needs it most.
Run by a mother. Not a movement.
Jahanara Memorial Trust · Est. 2005 · Lahore
