Khalifatul-Masih III - Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad — Page 41
Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad 41 NUSRAT JAHAN SCHEME During his tour of West Africa in 1970, he was inspired to establish schools, colleges and hospitals in order to promote health and education in six countries of West Africa for the betterment of the oppressed nations. For this he launched the Nusrat Jahan scheme under which he directed the Community to donate 5. 1 million rupees – the same number as the length of the Khilafat of Hazrat Musleh Mauood ra [which was fifty-one years]. He also asked doctors and post-graduate teachers to dedicate their lives for this purpose. Loyal members of the Community responded with great passion and presented more than the required amount to the Khalifah of the time. A number of doctors and professors quit their government jobs and presented themselves for Waqf. Within a few years, a whole network of schools and medical clinics was spread out in Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. Hazrat Khalifatul-Masih III rta said at the Annual Convention in 1980: “Allah has blessed the Nusrat Jahan Scheme with such a magnificent success that all the brains of the world put together cannot even imagine it. ” 30