As part of the celebration, AMI will hold a two-day programme in Dhaka on March 5-6. The programmes will include a series of discussions and awarding of 'Manab Seba Padak' to five voluntary organisations in recognition of their humanitarian services, said Mohammad Azim Bukhs, chairman of AMI.

The hundred-year-old organisation now operating throughout Bangladesh has a plan to expand its activities that include setting up of a modern hospital in the capital.

The AMI is now raising fund to establish the hospital at an estimated cost of Tk 120 crore in Basabo in Dhaka. The government has allotted the land for AMI.

Another scheme of the AMI is Anjuman Medical Programme under which it will provide medicare services for the poor, especially those who are living in slum areas in the city.

Ibrahim Mohammad Duplay, an Indian Muslim, established AMI in 1905 in Calcutta with the primary object to bury the unclaimed Muslim dead bodies. In 1947, AMI's activities were expanded to Dhaka.

The AMI buried a total of 29,259 unidentified and unclaimed bodies between 1992 and 2004. It is also providing ambulance service for carrying patients and dead bodies.

"We provide ambulance service in the capital free of cost and elsewhere in the country at minimum charge without considering cast, creed or religion of people," Azim said.

The AMI extended ambulance service to 64,388 patients during the same period.

The organisation is also running two orphanages, one for girls and one for boys in Dhaka where 157 orphans receive food, shelter, education, clothing and medical facilities.

Another orphanage has been set up beside the Dhaka-Narsingdi road.

The AMI has opened a technical institute at the Boys Home on Rajanai Chowdhury Road in Dhaka last year. The Anjuman Mofidul Islam Technical Institute is aimed to provide the students with vocational training to prepare them for future life.

"We impart such training to the inmates of our orphanages as well as other poor students," said the AMI chairman.

At Gandaria in Dhaka, the AMI is running a junior high school for girls which has a total of 431 students.

The activities of AMI spread in 26 districts including all divisional cities. The organisation plans to extend its service to every district towns.

"We are looking forward to open our branch in every district by next year if we get lands as donation," said Enamul Kabir, executive director, AMI.

The main source of income of this charity organisation is individual donation and rents of the houses and shops. It also gets an annual grant from the government.