Re: Helping the Needy During Ramadan (Merged)
Here's another organisation:
Muslim Global Relief- helping all muslims in areas of severe deprivation, e.g. Pakistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, etc. Check out their website: muslimglobalrelief.com
Re: Helping the Needy During Ramadan (Merged)
keep 'em coming guys!
thanks…
elborating on muzna’s idea - i know in the TO area there’s a few organizations that will come to your home and collect new/gently worn clothes that you no longer wear, and either give them, or sell them at a discounted price to the needy and homeless.
here’s a few #'s that you can contact if you’re interested.
Ontario Federation of Celebral Palsy
Toronto: 416-244-0899 or **
Toll Free:** 1-877-244-0899
the following link has a list of different organizations that accept used clothing. to find the one nearest use, please use the website given below.
http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/charityvillage/donate.asp
on a side note, on Wed October 4th, in downtown TO there was a fire in a kitchen which the Salvation Army uses to feed over 700 hungry and homeless people. the fire burned the kitchen, including all the food supplies that they keep there. if you’re interested in donating some canned/dry food, please read the following links for more information.
Re: Helping the Needy During Ramadan (Merged)
Zakat Foundation of America
edhi.org
local mosques
sending money back home, to the needy in your community
also, although we are Muslims and Musalimahs, but if we have the ability to, our charity should be boundless.
also, whosoever we find in need and deserving of it, we should extend it to everyone regardless of whether they are from our faith or not.
that is noble and teaches humility and others are humans too.
i truly feel that the best way to give charity quietly and with no middle person
is to give to someone who you find who is needy, possibly by going to them, yourself.
& in that category, all needy people will come. most vulnerable are
orphans infants and youth, lone elderly, poor families, widows and widowers, all of whom need shelter, clothing, food, clean water, or medicine.
if we are charitable with our time, we can even extend the monetary relief to human empathy and caring treatment
by listening to the hard life stories of the poor and weak among us, and by encouraging them, guiding them, strengthening them, by good knowledge and self-awareness, & their personal rights, as well as awareness about the world and its tricks, so that even though people are weak or poor, they do not succumb to the misgivings of the heartlessness of the affluent or miserable, self-absorbed greedy people. sometimes, a kind gesture can go a long way in giving someone hope and faith.
Re: Helping the Needy During Ramadan (Merged)
FYI -
October 12, 2006
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been subjected to investigations and prosecutions on questionable
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Re: Helping the Needy During Ramadan (Merged)
reviving this thread for the ramadan season.....