IKRAM Care & Relief: East Africa Appeal 2011

IKRAM CARE AND RELIEF

Assalamualaikum wbt

IKRAM Care and Relief UK Eire is launching an urgent donation drive to help our brothers and sisters in East Africa who are suffering from the recent drought.

Let us together help make a difference in their lives. Let us show them that we care.

Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

“You will not attain true goodness until you give of what you love,” (Surah Al ‘Imran, 92)

A small contribution will go a long way, inshaAllah. As we approach the last 10 days of this blessed month of Ramadhan, let us grab this opportunity to increase our good deeds in this holy month. May Allah accept it as 'ibadah and may it be rewarded by Allah abundantly.

Some headlines and excerpts

From Islamic Relief website:

"The drought in the Horn of Africa is affecting over 10 million people from across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. A deadly combination of successive failed rains and rising food prices has resulted in the worst drought the region has seen for 60 years.

Donate now:

£75 can feed a family for a month in South Central Somalia
£270 can treat 3 severely malnourished children
£920 can provide clean water to 20 families for a month
£10,000 can run a mobile health clinic for 3 months"

UNICEF: 300,000 kids risk death in East Africa

"UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. children's agency says more than 300,000 children in the Horn of Africa are severely malnourished "and in imminent risk of dying" because of drought and famine...."

From unicef.org.uk

"Right now in Somalia, a child is dying every six minutes. And unless we do something about it, children are going to carry on dying...."

A video to give us an insight on what is going on :

So, let's do our part and donate now. The first phase of this donation drive by IKRAM Care and Relief will end on 29th of Ramadhan inshaAllah.

To donate, please use the account details as follows:

UK:
Akaun: Ikram Care
Sortcode: 40-28-06
Acc no: 64254414
Bank: Hsbc
Reference: EastAfrica

Ireland:
Please contact sis Nawwar Miptah ( beet_nawwar@yahoo.co.uk ) for more details.

For further enquiries please contact:

Ireland: Dr Nawwar Miptah (beet_nawwar@yahoo.co.uk)
UK: Dr Mai Shahira Meor Hazizi (sh4hir4@yahoo.com)

May Allah accept our deeds and grant us Jannah insyaAllah.

"Verily, as for men and women who accept the Truth as true, and who offer up unto Allah a goodly loan, they will be amply repaid, and shall have a noble reward [in the Life to Come]." [al-Hadid 57: 12-18]

“Whoever relieves a Believer of a hardship of this life, Allaah will relieve
from him a hardship of the Day of Resurrection...” Hadith 36

Jzkk

Salam wbt
IKRAM CARE AND RELIEF UK EIRE