Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) is a non-governmental international relief and welfare organisation and a branch of Minhaj-ul-Quran International. It was founded on 17 October 1989 by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Tahir-ul-Qadri

Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a Pakistani Sufi scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab....

, and registered in the UK.

MWF's projects can be divided into four major categories: education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

, healthcare, emergency aid and welfare

Welfare

Welfare refers to a broad discourse which may hold certain implications regarding the provision of a minimal level of wellbeing and social support for all citizens without the stigma of charity. This is termed "social solidarity"...

 support.

Selected works

• 70,000 free eye-medical treatments.
• Relief work in the Swat and Malakand division by providing relief aid. This included temporary shelters, medical dispensaries, educational establishments and food packets. Minhaj Welfare Foundation has publicly vowed that it will not stop the relief work in Swat until every migrant has returned home.
• Emergency relief in response to the 2010 Pakistan floods
  2010 Pakistan floods
  The 2010 Pakistan floods began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions of Pakistan and affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was underwater, approximately...
  
  , Cyclone Sidr (Bangladesh), Tsunami (Indonesia), Sudan, Gaza Crisis, SWAT valley.
• Each year MWF helps to organise and manage the second largest Itekaaf (Spiritual Retreat during Ramadan) in the whole world after the one in Makkah and Madina.
• In Pakistan, MWF was the first charity in the history of the country to arrange and fund collective-marriage ceremonies for the needy.
• Aghosh Orphan Care Home.