Idea taken from Nik’s V-Day thread.
How many of you have ever took part actively in organizing an even to promote Mulim events in local schools? We have problem with every other kind of day and event at school (read Haram day and Haram event) but how many of us counter that with positive initiative?
Last eid, an Arab family in our local community came up with the excellent idea of promoting EID/Ramadan with a thankyou lunch for school staff and eidi-goodie-bags for around 450 students of the school. That was very thought full of them and mark on the staff specially and overall in local community was EXCELLENT. All it took was effort from 4-5 families and contribution of around 800$ from local Muslim community who have kids going to this school. We did not have to run any fund-raising campaign for this. All the funds were raised by word of mouth.
My kids told me about a week after that many of the Non-Muslim kids brought THANK YOU cards and small appreciation arts from home depicting the Eid (and Ramdan) celebrations. I observed that my kids were actually feeling proud for being Muslims.
I thought I should share…