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Annual Report 2016 2016 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS SEASONAL PROGRAMS Ramadan ................................................................................................... 06 Udhuya/Qurbani ........................................................................................ 08 Aqeeqah .................................................................................................... 09 Winter Kits ................................................................................................. 11 EMERGENCY RELIEF Standing by the Haitian People: Hurricane Matthew Relief ...................... 12 ZF’s Emergency Response in the Southeast United States ...................... 13 Rushing to Help the Horn of Africa ........................................................... 14 ZF Responds to the Urgent Outcry for Help in Aleppo ............................. 15 Millions of Shattered Lives in Iraq: the Tragedy of the Refugees .............. 16 DEVELOPMENT AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING Giving the Gift of Self-Sustenance ............................................................ 17 Protecting Our Vulnerable Children and Single Mothers at the Muhammad Ali Safe House and VTC .................................................. 18 Empowering Women through the Skill of Sewing ..................................... 19 New VTCs in Jordan Provide a Path out of Poverty for Syrian Refugees ................................................................................... 19 Reconstructing Homes Brick-by-Brick in the Gaza Strip .......................... 20 Refugee Resettlement and Empowerment: Serving the Rohingya People at Home and Abroad ..................................................... 22 EDUCATION Refugee Resettlement and Empowerment: A University By Refugees, For Refugees ............................................................................ 24 Reclaiming Their Future: Syrian Youth Harness IVORY the Power of Education ............................................................................. 26 COAST Young Volunteers’ Initiative Honors the Memory of a Kind Person: Murad and Brothers’ School................................................ 27 SADAQA JARIYAH (CONTINUAL CHARITY) Houses of Mercy Promise Blessings for Generations to Come ................................................................................ 28 Quenching a Stifling Thirst With Clean, Pure Water in Pakistan and Bangladesh ............................................................................................... 29 ORPHAN SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM (OSP) ......................................... 30 MISSION STATEMENT HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING Vital Healthcare for Syrian Refugees and Treatment for Zakat Foundation of America (ZF) is an Syrian Children with Special Needs in Turkey ........................................... 32 international charity organization that helps New Health Clinics in Mali Bring Health and Happiness ........................... 33 generous and caring people reach out to ZF Provides Vital Medical Equipment for Beneficiaries in Palestine ......... 34 those in need. ZF transforms charitable A Path to Public Health Awareness and Wellbeing in Bangladesh ........... 34 giving into actions that alleviate the immediate Mental Health Services in Gaza: ZF and PCRF Team Up to suffering of poor communities and build long- Provide Comprehensive Care .................................................................... 35 term development projects to foster individual and community growth worldwide. USA PROGRAMS Uplifting our Local Communities by Following the Example of the Prophet (pbuh) ................................................................................ 36 VISION 2016 ANNUAL REPORT 15 Years of Empowerment ........................................................................ 38 ZF believes that those whom God has granted wealth Independent Auditors’ Report ................................................................... 39 must cleanse that wealth through charity, and those Financial Report ........................................................................................ 40 whom God has tried with loss must be provided a ZF Receives 4 Stars from Charity Navigator Once Again ......................... 42 rightful share from the resources of the affluent. Zakat Foundation of America Honored as 2016 Top-Rated Nonprofit ..... 43 ASIA Afghanistan Azad Kashmir Bangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Myanmar (Burma) Nepal Pakistan Philippines Sri Lanka AFRICA Burkina Faso Central African Republic Ethiopia Ghana Ivory Coast Kenya Mali Mauritania Morocco Niger Senegal Somalia Sudan Tunisia Uganda IVORY COAST LATIN AMERICA Argentina Bolivia Colombia Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Haiti Nicaragua NORTH AMERICA USA Canada EUROPE Albania Bosnia EMERGENCY RELIEF Kosovo WINTER KITS Montenegro Greece RAMADAN Serbia UDHIYA/QURBANI MIDDLE EAST DEVELOPMENT Iraq EDUCATION Jordan Palestine ORPHAN SPONSORSHIP Syria WHERE WE WORK HEALTHCARE Turkey Yemen SADAQA JARIYAH ZAKAT FOUNDATION OFFICES Lebanon Changing lives permanently: Donors’ generosity THE4 ANNUAL HIGHEST REPORT 2016 GOAL OF ZAKAT Dear Friend, GIVES US HOPE FOR A BETTER WORLD Assalamu alaykum, Peace and Blessings. Dear ZF Supporter: ByA theNote grace ofof God Gratitude Almighty we have from successfully ZF’s completed LeadershipAssalamu another alaykum, Peace be upon you. year of growth. We could not have done it without our beloved donors, Dear friends, brothers, and sisters, supporters and volunteers. We are grateful to each of you forDo your you ever wonder if there is hope for the world? How can we not wonder when we see the continuedAssalamu Alaykum.support. Peace be upon you. turmoil and violence that afflict so many countries? DeliveringAs humanity emergency faces times relief tougher in placesand tougher such asby Gaza,the day, Mali, I am Syria,remindedThe Somalia ongoing of this versewar in fromSyria theshocked Holy and horrified us all in 2013 with chemical attacks, reports andQuran: Philippines “And we haveis fraught not sent with you, challenges. [O Muhammad], However except ZF asis drivena mercyof starvation to to be the andworlds” torture. (21:107). oneAt a of time the whenfirst someorganizations have striven to reach to unweave those Muslimswho need fromimmediate the fabric help. of the land of the free and the home of the brave, it is increasingly important that we exceedThe collapse ourselves of an inunsafe living textile out the factory in Bangladesh left more than a thousand families Inexample Syria our set courageousby Allah’s Mercy, team an could extraordinary be killed example or kidnapped of kindness atgrieving almost and compassion. their lost loved A ones. kindness anyand moment.compassion But not ZF unlike remains the idealsin the ofinterior, life and passionatelyliberty on which determined this country was founded. to deliver humanitarian aid–to refugees and internally displaced,The rebellion to in Mali displaced hundreds of thousands who then faced catastrophic flooding. victimsAnother ofyear man-made has passed or andnatural Zakat disasters–wherever Foundation of America it is (ZF) most continues needed. to bridge compassion and empowerment in a way Alhamdulillah!that illustrates the Muslim American heart. Just over the past year,But in honoringalthough my our heart commitment threatens to to alleviatingbreak with someevery newof the disaster, more you, our donors, give me hope. Through your generosity ZF delivered warm clothing, tents and food to displaced pressing issues of our time, ZF has: But dear friend, the highest goal of Zakat goes beyond deliveringSyrian civilians. Your donations enrolled refugee children in school, bundled them in warm short-term aid. Creating economicHasan Arslan, justice, Ph. D., ZF so President that giving changescoats, and filled their backpacks with supplies. Your kindness built a bakery and distributed lives• permanently,touched the impoverished is the best way lives to ofutilize thousands Zakat. by providingfresh livestock bread to for hungry self- families. Khalil Demir, ZF Executive Director, visits Malians displaced sustenance; by civil conflict and severe flooding in 2013. You •know carried that out through timely emergency the years reliefwe have efforts, touched helping hundreds tens of thousands ofThrough thousands your of innocent charity of lives, ZF whetherfed the families during of textile workers killed in the collapse, taught the seasonalcivilians programs in places such like as Aleppo;Ramadan and Udhiya / Qurbani, orwomen through of Dhaka’s our educational slums to sew and on their development own sewing machines and gave fathers hope for projects. We have trained hundreds of people and given themtheir tools families to earn when their they living. received In a 2013 rickshaw we gaveof their own. rickshaws• served as well Eid overgifts. 100,000 Every familypeople bythat supporting received thea rickshaw shipment now of medical has a permanent supplies source of income. to besieged Palestine; Your willingness to share your resources brought doctors and medicines to Malian refugees We raised money for water wells in rural African communities.who Now were the sick children and in pain. can go to school instead• established of hauling new water mental every health day programsfrom polluted in Turkey streams to help miles Syrian away. youth The affected livestock can drink and the vegetableby the gardens trauma can of war; flourish. And you understand that many of these problems have their roots in the entrenched poverty
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