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Ramadan and Qurbani 2014 Update Your donations in action Last year, you gave and we served over a million people affected by poverty, conflict and “The believer’s shade on disasters. The chain reaction the Day of Resurrection you started helped us to use will be his charity.” your donations to deliver emergency Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Tirmidhi. aid and long-term development programmes, improving the lives of the poor and vulnerable worldwide. Thank you. 2 3 Serving a lifeline... Sadaqah Jariyah... for humanity working at its best “When a man passes away, his good deeds will also come to an end except for three: Sadaqah Jariyah (ceaseless charity); “It’s my big a knowledge which is beneficial, or a virtuous descendant business now!” who prays for him (for the deceased).”Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Muslim. Jahanara 41, Bangladesh.

When you provide a family with the We facilitate operations from seeds and tools to cultivate their building a well so a whole village own vegetables to not only feed has access to clean water, to Jahanara is 41 years old from them but also provide an income, providing schools with books that Patuarkhali, Bangladesh. She was this is known as Sadaqah Jariyah. will empower the youth. We also trained by Muslim Aid in business provide livelihood skills to enable management and received a grant This type of charity is continuous and to set up a grocery store. In 2007, people to earn a living. its benefits are reaped by both the Cyclone Sidr destroyed her home donor and receiver, even after the and business leaving her in abject poverty. With the Muslim Aid person giving it has left this earth. Livelihood Programme helping her Over 30 years we’ve helped millions earn a living, she is now able to pay the tuition fees to send her two of people struggling in poverty with daughters to school and put food 4 Sadaqah Jariyah projects. on the table. 5 Gaza... our work continues PEOPLE RECEIVED MEDICINE, sick and wounded people MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND displaced people were given essential were given life-saving SANITARY SUPPLIES. household items such as blankets, baby blood supplies. In 2014, the Gaza conflict caused immeasurable suffering care kits and emergency food stocks for its residents. children given clothes on Over 2,000 people died; 490 of the deceased were children. Eid ul-Adha Before the ceasefire, Muslim Aid was on the ground working along GAZA the United Nations and local partners to ensure more reach and people were given food, hygiene 3,000 kits, mattresses and jerry cans meals given to Internally to collect clean water, and Displaced People living results to deliver emergency aid and develop long-term plans children clothes and toys in UN shelters

children orphaned by for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of services in Gaza. the conflict received sponsorship through our Rainbow Family Child 10,000 Our immediate response was to deliver aid to support people’s 15,000 Sponsorship programme people benefitted from an ICU ambulance and urgent and essential needs. LITRES five new fully equipped of fuel was given Intensive Care Unit beds. to power generators in the hospitals

6 7 Road to recovery Post-conflict and the fight to survive is not over for ordinary Gazans. Muslim Aid has included targeted We have started to work closely recovery programmes to ensure with the Palestine Trauma Centre Gazans get back on their feet. For Victims Welfare and will be Further food and non-food providing psychiatrists, social distribution to1,200 families is workers and specialised staff for underway. This includes staples 2,400 children and adults who are such as rice and canned meat and suffering from mental trauma. essentials such as blankets and They will receive therapy, food toiletries. and activities such as drama, art The effects of the conflict has sessions and plays will be organised caused immense psychological for them. stress on people. We are also supplying six new During the Gaza crisis 113 fishermen lost their means of fishing including boats and mortuaries to help hospitals cope equipment. These fishermen used to support with the increasing number of 840 family members between them. Work mortalities. is underway to repair 120 fishing boats in order to help them restore their livelihoods and support their family members.

8 Stock photo © rrodrickbeiler 9 This is the devastating reality for hundreds and thousands of Every child children living in Gaza. Before the war around 60,000 children were in need of psychosocial “I would like to be a specialist eye support. This number is growing doctor so that I can treat people counts at alarming levels. Our Rainbow who suffer from eye pain.” Family Child Sponsorship Talab, 13. Visually impaired by a shrapnel wound If you’re six years old and living programme has supported from the war. 1,355 orphans in Gaza. During in Gaza... the crisis we sponsored a further 320 children. You’ve already lived through The support these children Talab lives in a tiny house, partially and was given a donor. Since receive is a life-line for them destroyed by the airstrikes. The then all his medical, school and and means more than just food, house lacks basic amenities from transportation fees are covered. your third war. electricity and water to ventilation. He now has a new pair of glasses schooling and clothing. Decades of conflict, economic to protect his eyes from the dust Through the programme, they sanctions and poverty have taken which was causing further damage You know a friend or family receive therapy sessions and its toll for Gaza’s residents. Children to his eyes. bear the brunt the most, as access The Rainbow Family team pay post-trauma psychological to education and healthcare is a member who’s been killed. frequent visits to his home to check support. Recreational days are challenge. up on him and food is regularly also organised to help children Talab’s family are so poor, his given to the family. And, just like You’re experiencing poverty enjoy activities outside their mother could not afford to pay every little child living in Gaza, he normal routine. Their carers for transport to the hospital let dreams the same dream – to go to alone his medical fees to save school to become someone. are also given training on child at dismal levels. his eyesight. Thankfully, he was health awareness. enlisted under the Rainbow Family 10 Child Sponsorship programme 11 UK 180 people in poverty received a months supply of food Feed the world Palestine 8,990 Palestinians received food for Pakistan Bosnia Ramadan Feed the Fasting. Delivered 3,242 people food parcels enjoyed a months to 2,005 supply of food Thanks to you, we From Palestine and South This year our Feed people Syria 1,650 people Africa to Bangladesh and the Fasting pack will EUROPE received food Bangladesh reached nearly 200,000 parcels Delivered food Pakistan, we even reached reach 30 countries. parcels to 29,261 people in conflict countries such as You can feed a family Jordan people 40 countries Jamaica Myanmar 4,050 Refugees in Syria and Iraq to ensure the for the month of 2,050 people 1,680 internally Jordan given food SOUTH ASIA with our Feed the reached with parcels displaced people poorest and most vulnerable Ramadan for just £60 food parcels given food parcels Fasting programme MIDDLE EAST Iraq communities received a ATLANTIC 8,340 Iraqi’s FAR EAST and Zakat ul-Fitr. nutritious Suhoor and Iftaar given a months Kenya supply of food Philippines to last them throughout 3,251 people 4,000 of the poor Ramadan. given food parcels were given food Guyana parcels Food parcels given to 1,920 people Somalia Sri Lanka AFRICA 11,780 5,100 food Indonesia “Whoever is kind, Allah will be kind to him, Gambians parcels 4,687 people were South Africa enjoyed a distributed reached with food We reached Feed the parcels therefore be kind to man on earth. He who 3,283 people Fasting parcel Cambodia with food parcels 3,515 people received food for a is in heaven will show mercy on you.” month Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Tirmidhi.

“Muslim Aid is the only organisation to support vulnerable people in our district who are observing their fast. I am so grateful for the support.” 12 Katisha Ummar, 60 years old, Meerakeny Eravur, Sri Lanka. 13 Myanmar... new beginnings

Health Care Centre and poor communities during We’ve also constructed a temporary We are the only faith-based Ramadan, staples such as rice, learning space and renovated a In 2014, we built a health centre beans, oil and meat were given school in the village of Done Pyin. charity to have a field presence in Thet Kel Pyin, Sittwe which to 20,000 IDPs. Prior to Ramadan, Schools in Dar Paing and Min in Myanmar. reaches over 3,330 conflict we also distributed food parcels to Gun were also given a makeover, affected families with primary 9,270 families in need of assistance complete with brand new bathrooms Since the beginning of the conflict in 2012, healthcare services. Equipped with and 50 kg rice sacks to families in and furniture. Surrounding areas an outpatient clinic, a delivery and more than 116,000 people became homeless the Dar Paing and the Kaung Taw near the schools and villages were an emergency room consisting of Kha camps in Sittwe, Rakhine. re-developed with new water wells. overnight. Our field office established in 2013 ten beds - doctors, midwives and A total of 19 hand-pump wells have nurses attend to patients daily. We Education means we’re able to effectively coordinate been constructed in different villages. ongoing education, livelihood and healthcare also support a hospital in Dar Paing Children living in camps have and have started a phased delivery not been able to go to school for 120 women from four IDP programmes and deliver aid for internally of medical supplies to our two almost two years. Our education camps are currently being trained mobile health clinics. project aims to rehabilitate children displaced people (IDP) living in camps and in sewing skills, business and back into education and refurbish neighbouring villages. marketing management and Food Security schools that have been destroyed health education. Women and Working closely with partners on the ground, IDPs in Sittwe are unable to leave due to conflict. This means3,700 children are usually the most their camps due to movement children will have the opportunity we’ve made positive inroads in renovating vulnerable groups during conflict. restrictions placed upon them. to go back to school. Since the Social barriers, conflict and schools, hiring and training teachers, setting up This means they are unable to work project began, students have been poverty means they become and running health clinics and enlisting people and buy food regularly. Through given books, stationary and bags. less empowered. Our Livelihood our ‘Feed the Fasting’ programme, Teachers will also be trained in Programme ensures women in need through our livelihood programmes. which delivers food to vulnerable essential teaching in 2015. opportunities to learn a trade skill

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Over of the world’s poorest people from For the first time, “It’s a luxury for me as we also delivered free- I don’t get to eat meat 215,000 40 COUNTRIES range Qurbani meat to that often due to being RECEIVED FRESH disadvantaged families living in the UK. on a low income.” Umm Adam, Qurbani meat Our donors supported this single parent, . programme immediately last year and showed us that people are also keen to address That’s ANIMALS poverty in the UK. 7,824 We reached12,500 including 1 units of canned meat vulnerable people within Syria to 12,500 Syrian refugees *Canned meat has a long shelf life and provides a during the ongoing conflict valuable source of protein during an emergency and can be easily deployed. This can help the most needy 16 and vulnerable. 17 Syria... ongoing support “I want to open an orphanage and teach The Syrian crisis has led to 3 million Since 2011 we’ve been Last year, alongside our refugees and over 6 million displaced supporting Syrians in desperate partners, we started the kids how to love one people seeking humanitarian assistance. need of help. Our emergency Beity Orphanage on the another.” aid for Syria continues. Turkish border. This was made Fatma, 10 years old is a refugee recently With no end to the conflict in sight, these possible by all the generous In 2014 alone, we delivered orphaned from the conflict in Syria. She numbers are likely to grow in 2015. donors who supported the food, non-food essentials, lives at the Beity Orphanage and finally project last Ramadan. hygiene items, educational feels at home to be among people who support, cash assistance and love and nurture her. Home to 100 orphans food vouchers to over 37,000 affected by the crisis, the people suffering within Syria orphanage provides them and refugees living in camps with shelter, food, education in neighbouring Jordan and psychological support and Lebanon. needed for a child to grow We are continually providing up feeling safe and loved. food and non-food items to ensure Syrians are not forgotten amidst new and increasing global conflict. 18 19 Syria... in focus 2014

Syrian refugees were helped in camps in Jordan and Lebanon including IDP’s in Syria. Here’s how: Jordan Lebanon Syria

11,000 1,600 1,200 5,000 500 17,899 refugees were given children were given children given sanitary kits families were families received blankets offering winter clothes to school kits to including toiletries, provided food food packages protection keep them nice get back into detergents and and warm education ointments given to refugees

20 21 Iraq

Our field office presence means we’re on the ground attending to the needs of people caught up in the devastating violence in Iraq right now. Our field officers display enormous courage as they deliver emergency aid which includes food, blankets, mattresses, heaters and water purification tablets to over42,000 displaced Iraqi’s in 2014 and gives them a little comfort from the everyday fear and struggle they face due to the conflict. With your support, our work in Iraq is ongoing.

22 23 Thank you to all the in the UK which have continually supported us throughout three decades. They are the backbone of Muslim Aid, helping us to fundraise and engage with the Thank community. They simply are our strength.

Masjid Al Noor/Abu Bakar /Al - Muzammil Mosque/Balham Mosque/Burdett Estate Masjid/ Eccles Salford Mosque & Islamic Centre/Edmonton Islamic Centre Al Masjid/Finsbury Park General you Central Mosque/Jamia Hanfia Taleem-ul-Islam/Kingsbury Islamic Cultural Centre/Lewisham And Kent Islamic Centre/Tooting Islamic Centre/Tottenham Mosque/Abu Bakr Mosque/At - Taqwa Trust/Camberwell Islamic Centre/Central Mosque of Brent/Chelmsford Mosque/Enfield Deen & Education Trust//Islamic Foundation Mosque/Jalalabad Masjid/Makki Masjid/Makki Masjid & Madrassa/ Masjid Abu Bakr/Masjid Aisha/Masjid Ar Rahman Bolton/Mayfair Islamic Centre/Newcastle/University “The believers in their mutual Mosque/Shah Jahan Mosque/Shah Jalal Masjid & Islamic Centre/The Crawley Mosque/Witton Islamic Centre/Masjid Bilal/Masjid-e-Saliheen/Plymouth Islamic Education Trust/Salahuddin/Islamic Centre/ kindness, compassion and Brighton Islamic Centre & Mosque/Darul Jannah Mosque & Community Centre/Eastbourne Mosque/Jamia Mosque Eagle Street/Masjid Abi Bakr As-siddiq/Acton Muslim Welfare Association/ Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre/Central Mosque Blackpool/Havering Islamic Cultural Centre/Ilford Islamic Centre/ sympathy are just like one body. Masjid - Ul - Imam - Il - Bukhari/Masjid-E-Nimra/Mosque And Islamic Centre of Brent/Muslim Welfare House (Sheffield)/Muslim World League/Oldham Central Mosque/Shropshire Islamic Foundation/UK Albanian When one of the limb suffers, Mosque/Zakariya Mosque/Anjuman-e-Naqeebul Islam/Brighton & Hove Muslim Forum/Canary Wharf Prayer Room/Coventry Cross Mosque/Crawley Islamic Centre & Mosque/Darul Ummah Mosque/East the whole body responds to it London Mosque/Eastbourne Islamic Cultural Centre/ & Community Centre/Jalalabad Masjid & Islamic Centre/Leytonstone Mosque/Manarat Foundation/Markazi Jamia Mosque Riza/Noor Ul Islam Mosque/Noor Ul Islam Trust/Pakistan Islamic Centre/Stepney Shahjalal Mosque & Cultural Centre/ with wakefulness and fever.” Ukim - Jamia Darul Isra/Abu Bakr Masjid/Becontree Heath Islamic Society (dcm) Ltd/Central Jamia Masjid/ Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Bukhari & Muslim. Central Mosque of Lisbon/ & Islamic Centre/Greenwich Islamic Centre/Islamic Centre Upton Park/Lansbury Masjid/Masjid-e-umar/Muath Welfare Trust & The Amanah Masjid/Newcastle Central Mosque (Masjid at-Tawheed)/Nusrate Islam Mosque/Shahporan Masjid & Islamic Centre/ South Wales Islamic Centre/ & Islamic Community Centre Islamic Community Centre/ The Islamic Circle/Al Manar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre/An - Nagashi Centre/Battersea Mosque/ Birmingham Jamiah Mosque/Bow Central Mosque & Islamic Centre/Cambridge Muslim Welfare Society/ Cheadle Masjid/Chorley Muslim Trust/Dar-ul-Uloom Islamia/Education & Cultural Centre/Idarah Ma’ruf Britain Ltd/Kingston Mosque And Islamic Centre/Locksley Estate Mosque/Masjid-e-Ellahi & Maddressa/ Newham North Islamic Association/Shah Jalal Mosque/Al Rahman Mosque & Cultural Centre/Enfield Mosque/Islamic Cultural Centre/Jamia Masjid Bilal/Jamia Mosque & Islamic Centre/Jamia Noor Ul Quran/ Jamia Rasoolia Islamic Centre/Liverpool Muslim Society, Al - Rahma Mosque/Masjid-e-Noor/Mazahirul Uloom London/Muslim Welfare House/Nadi Park Royal/New Peckham Mosque/Peckham Islamic Centre/ Shahjalal Muslim Cultural Centre/Uxbridge Mosque/Westferry Community Masjid.

24 25 And finally... your donation really does make a difference to people in need. Muslim Aid’s administration cost is 6% on Start your regular donations with Muslim Over the past 5 years we’ve built donations received, excluding Zakat Aid today and help us in the fight against over 3,000 wells, helping thousands donations where there is no charge.” poverty, disease and hunger. of people to protect themselves It simply means when You Give… We Our £3 a month regular giving allows us from waterborne diseases. Serve. So a Big Thank You for all your to provide healthcare, nutrition, livelihood, continued support. education programmes and emergency aid to help people to get back on their feet. Just All this was to give you an example, £3 can buy life made possible saving medicine which otherwise would not be readily available. by you. Call 020 7377 4200 or visit muslimaid.org Thank you.

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