Islamic Relief Worldwide Vision Contents a Caring World Where the Basic Requirements of People in Need Are Fulfilled
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Islamic Relief Worldwide Vision Contents A caring world where the basic requirements of people in need are fulfilled. 4 Message from the Chair of the Board of Trustees 5 Message from the CEO Achieving our Mission 7 organisational aims Inspired by Islamic humanitarian values, Islamic Relief Worldwide aims to help meet 8 Responding to the needs of vulnerable people and empower them to become self-reliant so that emergencies they can live with dignity and confidence. We help individuals, groups and institutions Caring for orphans 12 and children in need to develop safe and caring communities and make it possible for those who wish to support others to reach people in need of their help. Supporting 16 education 20 Providing access to Work healthcare and water Promoting sustainable We provide help where it is needed most and wherever we are best placed to assist. 26 livelihoods We do this regardless of race, colour, political affiliation, gender or belief and without 30 Campaigning and advocacy expecting anything in return. We work to mitigate the effects of disasters, preparing on humanitarian issues for their occurrence where possible and responding with emergency relief and 35 Making a difference, the Islamic way rehabilitation. We promote sustainable development through our work in the sectors of 40 The Newsroom education, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, and livelihoods. We also advocate 43 Governance Organisational Structure on behalf of the poor. We hope to contribute to achieving the Millennium Development 46 Financial and business review Goals (MDGs) through raising awareness of the issues that affect poor communities 52 62 Independent Auditor’s Report and through our work on the ground. 63 Statement of Financial Activities 64 Balance Sheets 65 Cashflow Statement 66 Notes to the Accounts 2 Annual Report 2010 Islamic Relief 3 Message from Message the Chair of the from the Board of Trustees CEO This report highlights how we Accordingly, we committed used donations and funding to a multi-million pound to get real help to real people reconstruction project in 2010, in more than 33 countries helping the people of Pakistan during 2010. As you will read to rebuild their homes and in the following pages, our communities. We also continue work has improved the lives of to help thousands of children thousands but like our donors back into education with our and supporters, we want to do Haiti Schools Rehabilitation so much more. programme. The integrated approach of During the year we also worked our new four-year strategy on making sure communities will focus our future efforts became less vulnerable on creating long-term to disasters, such as in changes that tackle poverty Bangladesh where we helped Dr El-Alfy, Chair, helps out at our village re-habilitation programme in Pakistan Saleh Saeed, CEO, visits an Islamic Relief South Africa project and suffering at its roots. 81,000 people in disaster- As salamu alaykum the rights of girls to equal Alongside this, God-willing, As salamu alaykum where flash floods exacerbated preparedness programmes. Peace be upon you all. opportunities in education and the new governance structure Peace be upon you all. a chronic food crisis, and Nearby in China, we supported future employment. for the global Islamic Relief in Kenya where successive an entire community to reduce Islamic Relief was founded Islamic Relief was born international partnership will droughts have contributed to at environmental regression and over 26 years ago as a Our innovative projects out of emergency response mean even better outcomes for least 30% of children becoming increase their resilience to compassionate response to provided some of the world’s programmes and, in 2010, our beneficiaries in future. acutely malnourished. drought. suffering across the globe. poorest communities with our emergency response vital healthcare, sanitation and I, therefore, present to you included programmes to help Of course, man-made crises In this report, you will discover Today, by the grace of God, clean water. A strong focus Islamic Relief’s Annual Report communities rebuild their lives are often just as disastrous more about how we are it is the largest independent on promoting sustainable and Financial Statements for and boost their resilience to and in 2010 we cared for at transforming lives around the Muslim charity in the world. livelihoods empowered many 2010, as we pray for a peaceful disasters. least 21,000 people affected world – none of which would We work closely with local with a route out of poverty, and prosperous year ahead, by conflict in Sudan. Our have been possible without We were one of the first communities, governments, and our emergency response God willing. innovative conflict-resolution the continued support of our agencies distributing aid on the UN and other NGOs to programmes relieved the work in Yemen continued to donors, beneficiaries, partners the ground in the aftermath tackle poverty, suffering and suffering of thousands of empower tribes to resolve their and staff. of the worst floods to hit social injustice. people. Dr Mohammed El-Alfy differences and work towards Pakistan in living memory. Thank you to one and all. Chair of the Board of Trustees peace. In 2010, with the support of In addition, our growing In Haiti, we responded soon our generous donors, we were advocacy campaigns gave after the earthquake to provide While it is vital that we serve able to care for more than marginalised people a powerful emergency aid and opened the immediate needs of people Saleh Saeed 25,000 orphans and vulnerable voice in the crucial areas the first tented camp for in disaster-zones, Islamic CEO of Islamic Relief children around the world. We of child rights and peace- earthquake survivors. Relief is equally determined to Worldwide helped other children access building. help people get back onto their Our field offices tackled schooling and championed feet. malnutrition in Niger and Chad 4 Annual Report 2010 Islamic Relief 5 Islamic Relief is committed to This section highlights some examples of how helping achieve the our work in 2010 made a real difference to some Millennium Development of the poorest and most vulnerable communities Goals, and ran more than in the world, during 2010. 900 development projects in the last decade alone. In 2010, we worked in more than 33 countries to deliver projects Millennium Development Goals in the following major areas: Goal End poverty One and hunger Responding to emergencies Goal Universal Caring for orphans Two education and children in need Goal Gender Supporting Three equality education Providing access to Goal Child healthcare and water Four health Promoting sustainable livelihoods Goal Maternal Five health Campaigning and advocacy on Goal Combat humanitarian issues Six HIV/Aids Goal Environmental Seven sustainability Goal Global Eight partnership 6 Annual Report 2010 Islamic Relief 7 Vital aid for Reducing earthquake vulnerability survivors to disasters Aims Haiti Bangladesh • To develop our Bangladesh is one of the most disaster- organisational capacity prone countries in the world and Islamic to respond effectively to Relief is committed to helping communities emergencies. reduce their vulnerability to hazards. In 2010 we worked with more than 81,000 • To reduce vulnerability via people in the Netrakona Municipality, which food supply programmes. floods almost every year, and Sylhet City Corporation, which is on a major tectonic In 2010, Islamic Relief fault line. Our work included raising homes responded to emergencies and above flood-levels, preparing schools to disasters around the world. act as emergency shelters, educating These included the floods Residents of the Islamic Relief camp in Haiti schoolchildren in disaster preparedness and in Pakistan and Niger, an When a massive earthquake shelters gave protection helping communities plan what to do in an earthquake in Haiti, violence emergency. in Yemen and slow onset food struck the Caribbean island of to 1,320 survivors, and our crises in some of the poorest Haiti, we were one of the first cholera prevention work helped countries in the world. humanitarian agencies on the 5,000 people. ground, delivering food and aid We also worked to make to survivors. As well as taking care of a long-term difference in their immediate needs, we disaster-prone areas by More than 3.8 million helped local people rebuild building the capacity of local people were affected by the their lives and communities. communities to deal with disaster, which struck on We rehabilitated three future emergencies. 12 January 2010. Homes, schools, provided 1,820 job schools, hospitals, prisons opportunities and trained over and government buildings 180 people in IT. By equipping Emergency were destroyed in what was people with the skills and Shefali Begum plays with her son, Faisal, outside their flood-resilient home. Response 2010 already the poorest country opportunities to earn a living, CountRy BenefICIARIes in the Western hemisphere. we aimed to help them support Shefali Begum’s house in Netrakona was Albania 7075 Throughout 2010, survivors themselves in the longer-term. endured monsoon rains and regularly flooded, forcing her and her family Bangladesh 108942 out of their home. “We live very close to the cholera as well as violence Achievements Haiti 35340 in the aftermath of the river so our farmland is inundated with flood Indonesia 6360 presidential elections. Three camps housed over water, destroying our harvest,” she said. 5,000 people. “Now Islamic Relief has raised our home so Kenya 2400 After setting up the first Transitional shelter housed we will be less affected by the floods.” Pakistan 143373 organised camp eleven days 1,320 survivors. Palestine 4357 after the earthquake, Islamic 1,820 job opportunities Russian Relief continued to provide created. Achievements Federation 85 support throughout the year. 180 people trained in IT Reducing vulnerability to (Chechnya) We founded another two skills.