The purpose of the website:
This website address is https:// pamirscharity.org
The website has been set up, only to make the activities of the Dhananis’ NGO fully transparent, to the Governments of Tajikistan and USA.
poor patients Charity Views as per Aga Khan IV
Background of Dhanani Family Charity (DFC):
DFC primarily consists of 3 self-funded Charity Programmes by the Benefactors Mother Sherbanu Dhanani, Father Hasham Dhanani, Sister Naseem Dhanani, Maternal Grand Parents Ali and Rahemat Adam, Daughter-in-Law Shahida Dhanani and Son Shiraz Dhanani.
Programmes:
1) An NGO registered in Tajikistan with the name Ob Salamat Va Shukufoi (Water, Health and Prosperity). The NGO has been fully funded by the Benefactors with a 40-year Programme until 2061 for funding community projects in small villages in GBAO, Khation Region and Dushanbe Subordinate Area in Tajikistan.
2) A Perpetual Endowment for (AKMC-S) Aga Khan Medical Centre in Salemieh, Syria and for (AKMC-T) Aga Khan Medical Centre in Khorog, Tajikistan. It is managed by the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. The primary purpose of this Endowment is to provide financial support to those who cannot afford the full cost of their treatments.
3) A Perpetual Programme of monthly grocery assistance in the Tunisian village of Douz (bordring the Sahara Desert) to very poor single mothers. This Programme is funded through the anual income generated from the donated groves of 280 date palm trees.
Prior to to the undertaking of the above-mentioned 3 Perpetual Programmes, DFC also funded (between 2014-2016) one-on-one charity projects that helped multiple individual families in Bosnia , Tunisia, and Sri Lanka.
Below are the associated links for details:
Photos of a tuk tuk donated to Upul to service tourists. It cost US$5,000 >>
1. The Programme of the NGO ‘OSVS’ (Ob Salamat va Shukufoi):
1.1 Background:
This Non-Profit Programme started in Tajikistan in 2017. It is fully self-funded by the Benefactors (mentioned above) and is set up to continue until 2075 when the Current Director Mavlonazar Mavlonazarov plans to retire.
This NGO was initially registered under the name ‘Umed ba Behbudi’ (Hope for Prosperity) with a Chrter to operate only in the eastern-most Province of Gorno-Badakshan-Oblast.
However, in 2023, the Tajikistan Ministry of Justice audited the NGO’s operations. It liked the value of the types of projects that the NGO had funded and completed to benefit the mountain villages the Pamir Mountains . So, the Ministry then decided to give the NGO an expanded Charter to work in other Provinces and re-registered the NGO under the current name “Ob Salamat va Fukushoi” (OSVS), meaning Water Health and Prosperity.
OSVS is also now a member of the World Association of Non-Government Organizations (WANGO).
1.2 The objectives of the NGO ‘OSVS’
Apart from a few exceptions, OSVS funds projects to provide access to drinking water, repair existing irrigation channels, install new irrigation systems (where there were none before) to initiate new vegetable farms for food security, set up orchards for consumption and income, installation of wool processing machines for increased income and create new jobs, etc
Among those villages to whom we have been providing access to drinking water, the residents had to climb long distances up the mountains to bring down spring water. The climbing was tortous and in winter it became hazardous from the snow and ice. In other villages, theresidents had to walk long distances to nearby rivers to bring back the water, then remove contaminants and boil it before drinking.
To decide on projects to fund and when, the NGO Director has been visiting every year the Chiefs of villages in different areas to confer with them about the types of projects those villages would like to be implemented based on their own ranked priorities. So far, the villages have submitted more than 150 projects and counting.
1.3 How the NGO OSVS is self-funded :
OSV operates using only the interest income from the (TD) inital Grant of US$1,038,000 that the Benefactors have invested in successive 5-year term deposits at the Investment and Credit Bank of Tajikistan (which until 2024 was called First Micro Finance Bank) in Dushanbe.
The annual interest-based budget has been averaging about US$80,000 (net of taxes) in equivalent Tajik Somonis. The interest rate on 5-year TD has been fluctuating around 10% +.
The Grant amount to OSVS increases annually because of the interest income from the TD. So, taking also interest income into consideration, DFC has cumulatively Granted to date, equivalent of US 1,727,880
OSVS will be stay in operation until around 2075 . So, taking into consideration also the additonal future interest income, the cumulative Grant is projected to add up to close to US$4.5 million until the NGO closes.
After the current Director Retires:
When the current Director retires, all the cash assets(which may add up to equiv. US$1 million) will be donated over to the Aga Khan Foundation in Dushanbe.
f) How OSVS is Managed:
The NGO is managed by the full-time salaried Executive Director Mavlonazar Mavlonarov and he is assisted by the Board of Directors, a certified accountant on retainer and a certified lawyer on as-needed basis.
g) The Offices of OSVS:
It maintains, from 2023, a small official office in Dushanbe as required by the Government, but the projects have been managed since the start in 2017 from its office in Khorog, where the Director resides.
The office in Khorog had to be given up in 2023 after the building was nationalized, and now the Director operates it from home since suitable office locations as of now are unavailable in Khorog.
Khorog Office, which continued up to June 30, 2023 Photos >>
Dushanbe Office, as of February, 2023 Photos >>
h) The Projects completed as of 2026: 57
27 Projects in GBAO Region >> Photos
1 Project/s in Khation Region >> Photos
1 Projects in Dushanbe Subordinated >> Photos
6 Projects in GBAO Region >> Photos
0 Project/s in Khation Region >> Photos
0 Projects/s in Dushanbe Subordinated >> Photos
5) Started /Upgraded businesses in villages to create jobs and increase village incomes -Milk Dairy, Bee Farming, Chicken Farming, Produce fruit juices, shops for Metal Working, Carpentry, Welding, Wool-Processing, etc. Completed 9 projects. Photos >>
Photo of Aga Khan Medical Centre in Khorog >>
8) Helped 3 families as exceptions:
b) On behalf of a 9 y.o. girl from Khorog We researched for a complicated hip-surgery and located a great specialist at the Artemis Hospital near New Delhi, 2) Funded the shortfall of US$ 4,400 in the funds that had been raised since 2 years ago towards covering the medical expenses and a 2-month stay locally for recovery. Completed 1 project, Videos >>
Projects under construction : 3 >> Photos
Projects under planning in the current year : 5 >> Photos
Inventory of Projects which the Chiefs of Villages in Tajikistan have requested OSVS to fund >> to date 157+
2) A perpetual Endowment for patients at the Aga Khan Medical Centre in Salamieh, Syria (AKMC-S) and the Aga Khan Medical Centre in Khorog, Tajikistan (AKMC-K):
a) Purpose: To provide need based financial support to patients unable, to afford the cost of medical treatment, and to make purchases of equipment that would enhance patient care, priority will be given to patients from villages.
b) How it is funded and managed.
The components of the Corpus of the Perpetual Endowment of the Benefactors:
Cash: US $900,000
Legacy giving: US$1.3 million.
Continuing annnual donation of US$140,000-150,000 until the last of them passes away.
The Benefactors’ ultimate goal is to fund the corpus up t0 US $3 million.
This PE is managed directly by the Aga Khan Foundation in Geneva to generate annual interest income to support the Purposes of Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) in Geneva, Switzerland
In addition to the gradual funding of the PE, the Benefactors have already donated in the past US$20,000 to AKMC in Salehmieh and 10,000 to AKMC in Khorog.
The AKHS sends annual reports to the Benefactors indicating how the donated funds are being used.
Photos of Aga Khan Medical Centre in Salamieh, Syria. including the Donation Plaque >>
The First Report received in 2025 from the AKMC in Salamieh>>
Photo of Aga Khan Medical Centre in Khorog, Tajikistan >>
Donated Funds Applied Report hoto of Aga Khan Medical Centre in Khorog, Tajikistan >>
3) A Perpetual Programme of monthly grocery assistance to very poor single mothers in Douz, Tunisia
This monthly grocery assistance is funded with the annual income from 3 palm groves (total 218 trees) and 70 ewes (to breed for lambs to sell) which the Benefactors bought and donated.
Additionally, to manage the Progamme, the Benefactors also donated 1) A pre-owned SUV to use for delievering groceries, and 2) A motorcycle for transportation to these palm groves.
This charity programme is curently managed by Mohamed Aoun and in the future, his descendants will manage it. S0, t this Programme hopefully will continue indefinitely.
The SUV will also enable Mohamed to conduct his own tours of the Sahara Desert in winter months.
Cost US$138,000
Photos of a few of the women that have been benefitting from grocery charity >>
Photos of the palm groves and ewes: >>