Individual giving - making it count
Interview - Ikram Mian
2 June 2008
Alliance magazine
For Ikram Mian, it all starts with the family: the philanthropic ideals he inherited from his parents from early childhood permeate his whole life. ‘It’s in our value system,’ he says, ‘it’s in our blood. To keep on helping people, to keep helping society. It was always there in our heart and soul.’
As a senior Pakistani civil servant for 42 years, his father, Asghar Mian, now 91, devoted his life to public service and obtaining ‘justice for the people’, while his mother, Fatima, now 84, also well educated, spent much of her time establishing schools, colleges, community centres and orphanages in District Sialkot in the years after the war with India in 1965.
