About

I was a great admirer of her traits and her principles and she was the one who inspired me to become a doctor and work in Charitable Christian Hospitals in Pakistan. She was my teacher, preacher, mentor, my guide and support and instilled in me all the qualities she had with the same spirit of compassion she received as a gift from God. She passed away from this world on the 24th of July 2000, leaving behind a legacy for me to continue. I was a co-worker with her for almost 20 months before her demise and wanted to continue the great service she did. One year after her death I started welfare work and named it after her — ‘Mercy Home’. This name is a combination of my mother’s name and God’s mercy upon us. My family and I started helping children who were left back from my mother’s care and would buy books for them and organized medical facilities according to their needs.

Being a doctor, I and my dentist wife Rebecca, started doing free medical camps in villages, visiting schools to deliver lectures on “Living a Healthy Life”. We organized Health Awareness Programs through churches and schools inside our home city, Hyderabad. After some years we decided to do something big like, arranging clean drinking water and organizing bigger medical camps in places like slums where most poor and needy live. This was done from our own resources. Mercy Home was registered in Pakistan as a Social Welfare Organization in 2011.

There is a long list of endeavors and achievements in Pakistan, but God gave me a vision in 2007-08 to help bonded laborers, poor, needy and less privileged people, to serve them both medically and socially; and to bring Life and Light of Hope to the hopeless. Since 2013-14, welfare work started again in Pakistan after a short break. Most activities were brought to people’s attention in Australia, through awareness seminars and other church programs. I and my family therefore, decided to register Mercy Home in Australia also, as a charity/ not for profit organization. The focus of Mercy Home in Australia would be awareness programs and fund raising for the projects in Pakistan.

Dr. Reginald Humayun Zahiruddin
Founder and coordinator Mercy Home