While L.U.M.S. is an elite institution, largely inaccessible to most Pakistanis, it does have a program for underprivileged students and is currently offering full scholarships and admissions help to about 250 students, Mr. Ali said.
Consultus, which supplies help to about 570 clients at any one time, says the care worker's basic rate of £65 a day – £78 to support a couple – makes its service highly competitive relative to care home fees, even after its own fee of £102 a week is taken into account.
The guild provides free help to about 200 blind or visually impaired people a year, said Therese Snyder, executive director.
She provides help to about 3,000 young people annually and does so in a city neighborhood as confounding and complex as it was when she arrived.
Clergy members, grief counselors and Red Cross officials rushed to the airport offer help to about a dozen people, who were being offered food, lodging and transportation.
Mr. Wyden said, "We think you can get meaningful help to about 15 million people," or more than one-third of the approximately 42.5 million uninsured.
