About / Mission & Vision
Why we exist
Educating orphans. Honouring Ahl al-Bayt. Serving Indira Nagar.
Our mission
Gulistan E Mehdi Welfare & Educational Society was founded by community members of Karbala, Amrai Gaon — Indira Nagar, Lucknow — to open the door to formal education for orphaned and academically talented children of our neighbourhood. Where families have lost a primary earner or where bright children have no books at home, we step in with scholarships, mentoring, and a sense of belonging.
Alongside this educational mission, we are honoured to host Majlis-e-Aza through Muharram, Ayyam-e-Fatemi, and across the year — inviting respected scholars including Maulana Shabbir Ali Warsi to remember and renew the path of Ahl al-Bayt (A.S.).
Our vision
A neighbourhood where no orphaned child stops studying for lack of fees, and no aspiring student is held back for lack of books — where the message of the Imams is kept alive in every majlis, and where every donor knows exactly where their contribution went.
— Ya Mahdi (A.J.)
Core values
Four words we measure ourselves against
Khidmat
Service to community — without sect-internal politics or factional gatekeeping.
Ta’leem
Education first — religious and worldly, for every child we sponsor.
Karamat
Dignity — beneficiaries are named, photographed with consent, never reduced to pity.
Imanadari
Honesty — audited financials, Form 10BE on time, named trustees, marja oversight.