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Episode 8

Charity work: money, trust and transparency

Haji Karwan

Haji Karwan on running a charitable foundation — where the money goes, how trust is earned, and why transparency is the whole job.

What we cover

  • Who should be responsible for charity — organisations or the government?
  • Does giving shrink your money, or grow it?
  • How do non-profits manage money?
  • Can charities be trusted?
  • Who deserves help?
  • Why Haji Karwan chose charity over business
  • His day, and what he is responsible for
  • Childhood, poverty and work
  • Haji's own wealth
  • Travelling abroad
  • Politics, parliament and public pressure
  • How the Bakhtawari foundation works
  • Transparency, salaries and financial accountability
  • Helping Kurds and non-Kurds alike
  • Charity, and what the government is responsible for
  • Starting a non-profit
  • The risk you take doing humanitarian work
  • The Islamic view of giving and of wealth
  • Does giving shrink your money, or grow it
  • Advice for young people
Chapters (37)
StartWhy charity instead of business?What's your day like?Growing upDo you like politics?Childhood and workGold workshops and goldsmithsStarting out in party politics and charityThe Bakhtawari Organisation's areas of charity workDo you publish the figures?Does Haji keep money for himself?Is there theft in charity work?SponsorHow do people work there?Doesn't Bakhtawari hold on to money?Does Haji get a salary from Bakhtawari?Bakhtawari's plans, and who the aid is forWhy not help our own people?Helping foreignersHelping KurdsIs charity your job or the government's?How do I start doing charity work?Have you faced danger?SponsorWhat do you regret?Do you regret being an MP?How poor people liveDo you expect to go to paradise?Who is Haji's role model?Advice for young peopleDoes giving reduce your money?Are our businesspeople generous?Will there always be poor people?How can we get donations to Bakhtawari?How great is the need?Haji Karwan's closing wordsClosing