LAST RAMADAN YOU WERE AMAZING YOUR DONATIONS IN ACTION

Ramadan and Qurbani 2015 Update “They give food, out of love for Him (swt), to the poor, the orphan, and the slave, saying: We feed you only for Allah’s (swt) pleasure - we desire from you neither reward nor thanks.” Al-Qur’an (76:8-9)

2 The charity you gave enabled us IT’s true, to serve some of the most deserving people across the world. last Your donations brought relief, rest, health and sustenance to vulnerable and poor men, women and children. Those living in conflict-torn areas, abject poverty or affected by natural RAMADAN disasters. People who are in desperate need of some of the basic human necessities that many of us take for granted. YOU WERE Your donations didn’t just enable us to provide short-term aid, but enabled us to better serve these people by developing education and skills programmes. Things that will continue to AMAZING. make a significant difference to their lives for years to come and give them the skills to change their lives. You gave them hope. You gave them a future. You are amazing.

3 SADAQAH JARIYAh “When a man passes away, his good deeds will also come to an end except for three: Sadaqah Jariyah (continuous charity); knowledge which is beneficial, or a virtuous descendant who prays for him.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), Muslim.

The giving of charity is an act Our vision is the alleviation of which defines us as humans poverty, education for all and and strengthens ties within our the provision of basic amenities communities. To help another for those in need. We believe is to also help oneself with in a world where charity and continuous charity that benefits compassion can promote justice, both the donor and receiver. self-reliance and human development. At Muslim Aid, we rely upon your donations to our on going projects to support some of the We believe in poorest and neediest of people. giving hope.

4 MYANMAR (BURMA) The Rohingya people of Burma have nowhere to go. Without homes, access to education or the opportunity to earn a living, many innocent people remain trapped in a cycle of poverty and violence. Through darkness, shines hope.

We are one of the few charities working Thanks to you we have been able to provide: in Myanmar. We remain steadfast in helping • Skills training and livelihood support a community of people that the world has to over 30,000 people. forgotten. • Healthcare and nutrition to17,000 But we couldn’t do it without you behind people including malnourished children us, giving your support and donations to let and mothers. the Rohingya people know that there is hope, • Repair and home renovation to almost and a future too. 100,000 people in need of basic shelter to protect them.

And we won’t stop there. Together, we can help them.

5 MYANMAR SEWING CLASSES Our vocational training programme meant we were able to serve 120 women in Myanmar with a 3 months sewing programme, enriching their lives with independence and the OPPORTUNITY to build their own business.

Your ongoing support enabled us resources so that these women to deliver a programme of skills- could take their new skills based training that empowered forward and build a sustainable women and provided the business. Following the opportunity of building a future. closing ceremony, several local businesses came forward and Lives turned committed to purchasing on a around regular basis, the clothing made With regular sewing lessons by participants. complimented by business management and marketing training, we were able to provide 120 sewing machines and

6 rainbow family No child should be denied the right to education and a future. Our Rainbow Family project helps children achieve their full potential through regular support for schooling and resources, transforming their lives and the lives of their families.

7 rainbow family IN Africa Delivering aid to the many people in Africa who are in need of our help, has always been one of our priorities. Many hundreds of thousands of men, women and children suffer from poverty so severe, they do not know where their next meal will come from - or when it will be. Our child sponsorship programme Last Ramadan, your donations in Africa has helped many children enabled us to welcome new growing up in abject poverty – children to the programme in showing them that there is hope, Africa. Children for whom the happiness and people who will help year ahead will now be one that them. The support you gave us they can look forward to and last year meant that we were able one where they can develop and to continue delivering aid to these progress, safe in the knowledge children – but your generosity that they are supported. meant we didn’t stop there. We couldn’t have done that without your help. Thank you. HOW YOUR DONATIONS WILL HELP

OUSMAN CEESAY ZAKARIA BAMBA ALI RAMADHANI Ousman is 12 years old and lives in Zakaria is 14 years old and lives in Ali’s donor has been supporting him Banjul, Gambia. His father sadly died Tonkolilli District, Sierra Leone. His since 2008. He regularly donates in 2011. His mother is the sole provider father sadly died of illness in 2012. Ramadan food packs for Ali and his of the family and earns a small income He has 3 siblings and is being looked family who live in South Africa. as a fishmonger. Before sponsorship after by his mother. Zakaria’s mother “Myself and the whole family would like Ousman’s mother could not afford to is in poor health and unable to work to thank you for taking care of us during send him to school meaning he stayed and provide for her children. Zakaria the month of Ramadan. We bought food at home. Since joining the Rainbow is in grade 5 and making good progress for iftar and other stuff and our Eid was Family Programme last year, Ousman at school, sponsorship will ensure that very nice. We didn’t have to think about has enrolled into school and has been he completes his studies and gives him anything except the prayer. We don’t have attending school regularly. hope for a brighter future. enough words to express our gratitude.”

9 HOW YOUR DONATIONS WILL HELP Due to your amazing donations, we have been able to support hundreds of children in Pakistan’s poorest regions and beyond, by providing stable, reliable support they can depend on.

Following the 2010 floods, the like you. Asma’s future is bright, mud houses of the area that knowing her daughter has the Asma lives in were damaged opportunity of a future, the stress and destroyed. She lives with and strain has been lifted from the her parents and 5 siblings and shoulders of Asma’s mother. her mother suffers from a heart “I like to study and play games condition, meaning the little in school. My favourite subject money that her father can make, is mathematics, as I like doing huge is often spent on medicine and calculations. I want to become treatment. This left no money to a teacher. I want to say thanks send Asma to school and help her to my donor for their support. I buy realise her right to education. everything I want from the amount Asma has been receiving financial they send to me. I buy books, clothes support from our Rainbow Family and shoes.” Programmes since 2011, due to Asma Bibi, Southern Punjab, the amazing support of people Pakistan. PAKISTAN & SOUTH ASIA Last year, a huge earthquake hit Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India. The earthquake struck in October 2015 and measured 7.7 on the Richter scale.

It was an enormous natural disaster, wreaking devastation on communities already struggling with poverty and political conflict. Hundreds of people died and thousands were injured. Many more lost their homes and livelihood. Your donations meant we were able to quickly be on the ground, delivering aid and comfort where it was needed most. In tough conditions, our staff were supported by your generosity to help a community afflicted by devastation and destruction.

11 pakistan Teaching, Learning and Education for all. Your donations last year meant we were able to launch programmes in rural parts of Pakistan to tackle literacy rates and help lift people out of poverty through education.

With male and female literacy rates Thanks to you, we have been able These donations have helped us to well below 50% in some areas, poor to provide: support and develop 40 Primary school infrastructure, a lack of teachers • Building rent to open and schools and recruit 120 teachers. or appropriate venues, as many as half continue schools of Pakistan’s children are out of school Teachers who will • School books, stationary and and limited in their opportunities for be able to inspire resources achievement. and motivate the • Health screening and medical checks From the street next generation • Parent-teacher consultations of children. to school. • Child protection training With 5.5 to 6.5 million children out of Children who are school in Pakistan, it has one of the the start of a highest numbers of children out of school bright future – – many of whom resort to labour and Thank you. working and living rough on the streets.

12 CAMBODIA WASH PROGRAMME. During 2015, we used your donations to develop our Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Project (WASH) in Cambodia, helping families achieve and understand how hygiene and sanitation can improve their way of life.

We promoted water sanitation through “Before Muslim Aid started support in my training and resources to over 5000 Village, I never thought about how water people, delivering safe drinking water sanitation and hygiene is important for and courses to help change habits our health and I didn’t know how to use to prevent the spread of disease. safe water for drinking. After I joined the Muslim Aid project, I learnt how to use We worked with over 70 teachers safe water for drinking, how to clean the and 2500 students to develop 156 toilet and how to properly wash and clean WASH school groups and to help them my hands every day. I feel very happy understand the importance of hand about this project and I noticed most the washing, water sanitation and latrine families here now seem healthier and usage. This knowledge was then passed happier. I would like to say thank you through communities to give these to Muslim Aid for their support.” families a better standard of health and empower them for a healthier tomorrow. Mrs Man Noun, 77 years old, Sgoul Village, Cambodia.

13 GazA WASH PROGRAMME. Our WASH programme has become international, with your donations, we could take our project to some of the neediest people in Gaza.

With on the ground training we have Thanks to your efforts, our WASH We have also been working with delivered water sanitation measures, project helps to: midwives to provide training and training and education. These skills have resources - to help them better care for • Improve sanitation helped mothers in Gaza to look after the health of pregnant women their families and reduce contractible • Decrease mortality and sickness and giving mothers and children rates from diarrhoea illnesses. a better chance at life. • Improve food hygiene Your donations • Increase school sanitation have really made facilities and provide training a difference.

14 Hope survives in gaza. Awad Maqqat is 24 years old and lives in Gaza. He is married with 3 children. Awad suffers from health problems that prevent him from working. Following the Huda Storm, his home, like many in the lower area of Gaza, was damaged, rising water causing his home to be regularly partially submerged and the buildings in the area began to sink. Everyone deserves a home that is clean and safe. Due to your generous donations, we were able to visit Awad and others in his area to provide hygiene kits, blankets and basic amenities to improve their living conditions. We also conducted training sessions on water sanitation to help create awareness and to educate – meaning Awad and his family have the decent standard of living that they deserve. 15 GAZA we are here The Gaza conflict continues... but so does the help you gave. The aggression and violence in Gaza We continue to concentrate our efforts has led to thousands of people in in meeting the immediate and essential desperate need of food and basic needs of those living in Gaza, with food health facilities. Following the Israeli packs, medicine, shelter and clothing. offensive of 2014 and the Huda Storm Their need is on going and so is the of 2015, more and more families are support you gave. displaced, made destitute and plunged Thanks to you, into poverty. we are saving lives. Because of you and the donations you gave, we can show the people of Gaza that we care and that we haven’t forgotten them.

16 Delivering aid to the people of Gaza is just the first step. Providing the means for them to rebuild their lives and support their families is essential in the fight for a brighter future.

For many people living in Gaza, to Working with the United Nations we project, he was supported with a small have everything taken away can be have strived to develop long term boat so he is able to fish and generate an devastating and demoralising. When the plans for rehabilitation for those living income once again. home and resources that you have relied in the conflict. Partnering with social “I started to make a profit from fishing upon to support yourself and your family workers, teachers and hospitals we within a four month period. This period has is taken away, every day can be a struggle have developed projects to help rebuild improved my life, and my sons’ lives who just to survive. communities and opportunities for also work with me, both on the economic people in Gaza and provide them dignity With your donations, we have been able and social levels. Thank you Muslim Aid and hope once more. to work tirelessly in Gaza to deliver aid for your support.” where it is needed most. Not only have Ibrahim Morad’s family and livelihood was we continued to serve these people with devastated during the military assault on basic food packs, medicines and aid, we Gaza in 2014. His boat and all the nets have established links on the ground were damaged and he lost all possible in Gaza. means of earning an income. After being nominated for the Muslim Aid fishermen’s’ 17 BANGLADESH Bangladesh remains one of the most disaster-prone parts of the world.

With fear and worry hanging over Using risk assessment, implementing their heads, building a bright future school contingency plans, distributing remains bleak. funds and cash grants, you gave and we have served the people of Bangladesh. With your charitable support, we have been able to develop programmes and And we will continue, with your support, projects to tackle this risk and benefit to strengthen and develop homes, over 11,000 people in some of the schools and opportunities, bringing most vulnerable areas. hope to those in need of help.

18 Draw The Smile Ramadan & Eid clothes project Our Draw The Smile project aims to do just that – bring some happiness back to those who deserve it most.

To date, you have helped provide “Muslim Aid drew the smile on my children’s clothing for over 600 children faces. They provided us with what I could in Gaza, for Eid. not get for my kids - new jackets, shoes , t-shirts, trousers, everything needed Riad Salah Saleh Joha is 48 years old for them. It was really a dream, I was so and lives in extreme poverty. Due to happy and pleased to those people who suffering long term, debilitating illness supported me and raised the positive side he has been unable to work to support of my children’s spirit. You helped them his family. His home was partially to play with their friends, go out, see damaged during the Israeli assault, others and show others their new leaving him and his family in need of clothes. Thank you.” basic amenities, furniture and clothing. Thanks to you, the Draw The Smile project was able to provide new clothing and shoes for Riad’s children – giving them happiness and dignity.

19 SYRIA Close to 10 million people, many of them children, have been chased from their homes by the ongoing conflict. Wherever they are, we are there.

Over 3.2 million Syrian refugees have been displaced across their country, to Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and beyond. Their need is ongoing and worsening by the day and your emergency aid has helped us serve some of the world’s most desperate and disadvantaged people. • 7100 boys and girls have received basic clothing needs for winter • 2700 children provided with basic schooling to continue their education • 5000 Food parcels and school kits

20 Iraq Our field office continues to deliver life-saving aid in the face of adversity, violence and conflict.

Our staff work bravely to deliver emergency aid to over 50,000 Iraqi people and provide them the care and compassion they need in such harrowing conditions. We are by their side. Last year we helped 9,500 people with • Food packs • Blankets and mattresses • Heaters • Water purification tablets • Medicine, milk and baby supplies Without your help, we simply couldn’t continue.

21 Eid Gift Programme Our Eid Gift Programme is one of the highlights of our services. By delivering sweets aNd gifts across the globe, your donations mean we have been able to provide many children with the chance to look forward to and celebrate Eid just like any other. Giving happiness, giving love.

Reaching out to Afghanistan, Bosnia, “As we approach Eid, all my friends look Bangladesh, Gambia, Iraq, Lebanon, forward to it but I am sad because my Kashmir, Pakistan, South Africa and dearest are no longer with me. Your gift Sri Lanka, you have ensured that Eid made me smile again –thank you!” is truly an international celebration. Mirza, 14, Bosnia. Our Eid Gift programme has provided “You can’t imagine how happy I am now! much-needed funds to some of the I bought clothes for Eid day and poorest families, gifted sweet packs I can’t wait to wear them!” and organised parties for children Anik, 16, Bangladesh. who have lost so much. Due to your amazing generosity, the children Thank you. of our Ummah can experience the happiness of Eid.

22 yemen Providing humanitarian aid to the people of Yemen remains one of our priorities. In a time when the aid efforts of many charities are questioned by the many Internationally Displaced People in a community who receive little support, your donations have been able to make a difference.

Thanks to your donations last to enable many men, women and year, we were able to support the children to receive the sustenance people of Aden with food vouchers, they so badly need. bringing relief and sustenance Your help gave us a chance to serve directly to almost 250 families. them in a way that allowed them With the threat of war, a lack of to retain their dignity, to remove security and safety directly affects their worries and to recover some many of those living in the area. But semblance of their normal lives. due to your generosity, our team Thank you. were able to coordinate and work with local supermarkets and staff

23 Qurbani Campaign Last year, with your help, we raised over 660,000 towards providing much needed meat for those in need, with our Qurbani campaign.

What’s more, with that money we were able to provide 11,516 Qurbani portions. With over £84,000 worth of canned Qurbani being distributed inside Syria.

That’s huge. From them and In fact, your generosity meant from us, Thank we were able to distribute much you. of the meat to those areas where Our Qurbani campaign delivers things are really tough; with over fresh meat to some of the world’s £134,000 going to those around poorest people. the world in the greatest need – once more meaning that you gave Not only does it provide them and we served. with vital sustenance and nutrition, it also gives them a chance to celebrate Eid Al-Adha.

24 UK Qurbani sadly poverty can strike us all. Thanks to your donations, we also continued to deliver fresh Qurbani meat to low- income families within the UK who are struggling to feed their families.

Last year, you raised £15,000 to help those Muslims living in the UK who are suffering from the effects of poverty and low income. The chance to receive Qurbani not only brightens their day but makes them feel part of the community.

25 LAST YEAR OER 660,000 WAS RAISed for qurbani thatby Muslim means nearly... aid of the worlds MOST needy people from... 340,00026 LAST YEAR OER 32 countries RECEIING fresh qurbani that’s a staggering 660,000 11,516 ANIMALS MEAT WAS RAISed for qurbani weWAS also RAISed provideD for 1,025 qurbani units of canned meat to syrians that means nearly... inside conflict ridden syria as well as in turkey. by Muslim aid through your generosity qurbani meat benefitted of the worlds of the worlds MOST needy people 6,500 people in palestine and over 50,000 in india from... 340,000 now that’s amazing27 feed the fasting Your donations last year meant we could feed the world.

As part of your Ramadan donations Thanks to you, they were able to last year, you helped us provide break their fast and see an end to life-saving food to men, women and their hunger. children right across the world. That’s amazing. Your good deeds, donations and Thank you. kindness stretched around the globe to deliver Feed the Fasting packs in over 30 countries. This year our Feed the Fasting pack will reach From Palestine to Iraq, from over 30 countries. Bangladesh to Lebanon, you gave and You can feed a family for we served families with nutritious the month of Ramadan suhoor and iftar meals. for just 60

Our little aid box denotes the locations of our global Muslim Aid field offices.

28 UK afghanistan 593 3,080

LEBANON Bosnia 15,000 india 1,956 PAkistan 18,687 12,250 palestine Syria 12,500 3,204 EUROPE nepal 910 Bangladesh Jordan 29,296 ATLANTIC gambia 3,500 1,343 ghana MYANMAR 920 SOUTH ASIA 6,832 MIDDLE EAST Iraq Sudan 10,480 2,226 FAR EAST Sierra leone 1,200 yemen Philippines 1,584 3,000 nigeria 207 ethiopia 353 AFRICA Indonesia Somalia South Sri lanka 16,680 6,000 africa Malawi 7,3 50 2,000 1,000 Cambodia 1,840

madagascar uganda Kenya 3,160 1,600 2,117

Numbers of beneficiaries indicateD in yellow. 29 Last year, you gave and we served. Your support for Your generous donations of £60 “Whoever feeds a our Feed the Fasting enabled us to provide a whole month’s fasting person will programme reached supply of food for a family, lightening have a reward like over 197,000 people the load on their shoulders, taking that of the fasting away not only their hunger but also person, without any in 30 countries. their worry. reduction in his You raised over a quarter of a million reward.” Your Feed the Fasting donations pounds in aid to enable us to provide (Tirmidhi) enabled them to fast during Ramadan. nutritious, filling food to thousands of people. £250,648 was given by people like you, to people who were That is amazing. fasting in this amazing month of Thank you. mercy. And you didn’t just feed them for one day.

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

Masjid Al Noor/Abu Bakar /Al - Muzammil Mosque/Balham Mosque/Burdett Estate Masjid/ time to say Eccles Salford Mosque & Islamic Centre/Edmonton Islamic Centre Al Masjid/Finsbury Park General Central Mosque/Jamia Hanfia Taleem-ul-/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 thank you. 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 Mosque/Shah Jahan Mosque/Shah Jalal Masjid & Islamic Centre/The Crawley Mosque/Witton Islamic Centre/Masjid Bilal/Masjid-e-Saliheen/Plymouth Islamic Education Without you, we would not Trust/Salahuddin/Islamic Centre/Brighton Islamic Centre & Mosque/Darul Jannah Mosque & Community Centre/Eastbourne Mosque/Jamia Mosque Eagle Street/Masjid Abi Bakr As-siddiq/ be able to help those who Acton Muslim Welfare Association/ Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre/Central Mosque Blackpool/Havering Islamic Cultural Centre/Ilford Islamic Centre/Masjid - Ul - Imam - Il - Bukhari/ need it most. Masjid-E-Nimra/Mosque And Islamic Centre of Brent/Muslim Welfare House (Sheffield)/Muslim World League/Oldham Central Mosque/Shropshire Islamic Foundation/UK Albanian Mosque/Zakariya Muslim Aid would also like to express our sincere Mosque/Anjuman-e-Naqeebul Islam/Brighton & Hove Muslim Forum/Canary Wharf Prayer Room/ gratitude to those mosques and organisations within Coventry Cross Mosque/Crawley Islamic Centre & Mosque/Darul Ummah Mosque/East Mosque/Eastbourne Islamic Cultural Centre/ & Community Centre/Jalalabad the UK who provide us with a network of volunteers. 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 & We are one community together and we wish each Cultural Centre/Ukim - Jamia Darul Isra/Abu Bakr Masjid/Becontree Heath Islamic Society (dcm) and every one of our supporters a blessed Ramadan. Ltd/Central Jamia Masjid/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/ 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.

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