30th anniversary brochure issue (1)

3Muslim Aid - 30th Anniversary

MISSION

Muslim Aid, a premier British Muslim relief and development agency, guided by the teachings of Islam, endeavours to tackle poverty and its causes by developing innovative and sustainable solutions that enable individuals and their communities to live with dignity and by supporting initiatives that promote economic and social justice.

VISION

Our vision is the alleviation of poverty, education for all, and for the provision of basic amenities for those in need; in order to create a world where charity and compassion produce justice, self-reliance and human development.

VALUES

Muslim Aid’s values are compassion and sensitivity to others’ needs and condition; empowerment of people to realise their own potential; justice for all by considering the rights of people and treating them with dignity and respect they deserve regardless of their ethnic background; and accountability both for our own actions and those of our partners.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Dr M Manazir Ahsan MBE (Chairman)Dr Suhaib Hasan (Vice Chair)Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari MBE (Secretary)Mr Saleem Asghar Kidwai OBE (Treasurer) Mr Yousuf BhailokMr Nur Ahmed Chowdhury FCCAMr M H FaruqiMr Mehboob KanthariaDr Abdul Majid KatmeMr A K M Abdussalam

Ms Unaiza MalikMr Farooq MuradDr Zahid Ali ParvezDr Muhammed Jafer QureshiDr Tariq Yusuf RajbeeMr Riyadh Al-Rawi Sir Iqbal Sacranie OBEProf Ghulam SarwarMr S M T WastiMr Muhammad Zamir

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Messages From Chairman & CEO

The Beginning of Muslim Aid

History of Muslim Aid Timeline

Emergency Relief

Education & Skills Training

Religious Dues

Housing & Shelter

Water & Sanitation

Microfinance

The Journey Ahead

Healthcare & Nutrition

Rainbow Family

UK Development

Muslim Aid’s Reach

“…if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of mankind…” - The Holy Qur’an 5:32


Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Looking back over the last 30 years, I am both proud and humbled at the amount that Muslim Aid has achieved and the challenges we have overcome as an organisation. In times of conflict, natural disasters and where chronic poverty is rife, Muslim Aid has been a lifeline to millions of people all across the world. But having said this, it has by no means been an easy 30 years. Having been one of the founding trustees of Muslim Aid and having served as Chairman for two terms, I have always maintained a strong sense of duty to the organisation, particularly its donors and beneficiaries. It has always been our aim to take the organisation from strength to strength and we are humbled to be standing strong after three decades of service. Despite the success of the organisation, hurdles and obstacles along the way have been abundant. From trying to reach those in need in times of conflict and disaster to facing false allegations in the press, Muslim Aid has had its share of challenges but by the will of Allah SWT, we have come out of them stronger and better equipped to cope and continue. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have supported our work through their donations or time over the last thirty years. Special thanks are also due to our field officers who have served over the last thirty years, delivering aid in some of the most treacherous conditions. Our staff and office volunteers have carefully coordinated our work over the last three decades, and I can not be more proud of their efforts. I hope that there will not be a need for our work in the future, but if there is, I pray that Muslim Aid will continue to expand and be everywhere that we are needed.

Wa alaikum salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Dr M Manazir Ahsan MBE Chairman


Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

In the 30 years of its existence, Muslim Aid has become an innovative International NGO delivering sustainable development programmes with 17 offices in Asia, Africa and Europe, serving millions of the poorest and most marginalised communities worldwide. Our strength not only comes from our geographic coverage, but from the belief - serving humanity, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity and creed, is at the core of our work. Our Islamic values of compassion, justice and peace have not changed over the 30 years, and we are committed to ensuring that through our poverty reduction programmes and emergency relief, people have access to life’s basic human rights.

30 years marks a milestone for Muslim Aid. It is a testament to our longevity and our global popularity. Despite this, it also marks a time where we are facing increasing changes in the global humanitarian field. Our challenge is to adapt with proactive responses to the changes modern wars and complex emergencies are presenting us with. From the increasing number of refugees fleeing persecution from conflict countries; fighting new and deadly viruses to climate changes affecting livelihoods, we will endeavour to create lasting and positive changes for the lives of those in need.

We are grateful to all our supporters, volunteers and donors. The generous public have been the backbone of our success, enabling us to facilitate our work. The years ahead are not without challenges and we remain ready, committed and full of vigour for the journey ahead.

Wa alaikum salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Hamid Azad CEO


A small office in London responded to the 1985 Ethiopian famine by delivering emergency aid. The founding members of the organisation set the foundations of what was to become known today as one of the largest British international faith based relief agencies; Muslim Aid.

The years that followed saw the organisation increase its relief efforts to respond to the floods in Bangladesh and conflicts in Africa. By 1989 over £1 million of emergency aid had been distributed. Muslim Aid has since gone from strength to strength, originally establishing itself as a relief agency, later adding sustainable development for communities affected by poverty, disasters and conflicts to its charter.

In thebeginning

By the 1990’s long-term development projects accounted for almost 50% of Muslim Aid’s relief activities. Muslim Aid expanded its economic empowerment programme to include income generation and skills development programmes for people in Bangladesh, Kenya and Palestine. Muslim Aid was one of the first agencies to respond to the Tsunami that claimed the lives of 230,000 people and left around five million homeless in Asia and east Africa.

In 2010, Muslim Aid began the ambitious task of building model villages in Pakistan, complete with housing, schools and clinics after a devastating flood destroyed homes, livelihoods and roads.

The organisation has expanded its operations in over 70 countries, with 14 field offices in Asia, Africa and Europe, Muslim Aid also established two UK regional offices in Birmingham and Manchester.

In 2013, Muslim Aid set up a field office in Rakhine state, Myanmar and is the only faith-based international NGO to operate within the country delivering education, healthcare, livelihood programmes and emergency aid to the Rohingya people displaced from the ongoing conflict. A field presence in Myanmar means Muslim Aid is able to deliver effective and targeted programmes to one of the world’s most persecuted minorities.

Muslim Aid established its UK Development department in 2011 to address the issues faced by the marginalised and impoverished in the UK. It has expanded its efforts annually to include dynamic programmes, such as supporting prisoners with life-skills and assisting the homeless and elderly through its winter campaign, which benefitted 7,800 people in 2014 alone.

30 years on and Muslim Aid is expanding its geographical reach and capabilities in sustainable development. Muslim Aid’s office in the USA is in its infancy but is steadily growing in strength and in reach. The organisation has stepped up emergency responses in countries experiencing conflict and will continue to forge meaningful partnerships to carry its work forward.

Evolution &Growth

30 years on


The Secretary for Social Welfare inaugurates the Sudan Office. MA’s Sudan and Bangladesh offices are set up in response to strategic needs

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

History ofMuslim Aid1985 - 2015

MAis founded when leading British Muslim Organisations join to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia

MA provides vital emergency supplies to millions of Afghan war refugees fleeing into Pakistan. A field office is established in Peshawar, Pakistan to implement education and health care programmes for incoming refugees

MA Sudan establishes 7 primary healthcare centres helping 145,000 people. Food, medicine, clothing, seeds and fertilisers are delivered to thousands of people rebuilding their lives after floods in Bangladesh

MA Bangladesh implements an income generation scheme where 2000 people benefit from 6 months of training and interest free loans to start their own business

MA is amongst the first to send emergency supplies to earthquake victims in Pakistan and Iraq, where hundreds died and over 40,000 were left homeless

MA distributes 39 tonnes of aid worth £250,000 to Tirana, Albania on the first ever chartered flight arranged by the Muslim community

MA expands economic

empowerment programmes with Income

generation and skills training projects that

support people in Kenya,

Bangladesh and Palestine

MA send tents, blankets, food and medicines to some of the 16 million people affected by famine in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique and Sudan

MA sets up an office in

Highbury, London

Severe drought in Sudan calls

for emergency relief. MA steps up relief efforts

and responds with medicines,

food and blankets

MA Sudan complete a

programme of water supply

systems in the communities

of Tangasal, Omdurman

and Umbadda, which reach

thousands of homes

Agricultural development programmes

bring long-term relief to

affected people in Bangladesh,

by enabling the cultivation of

land

MA distributes Qurbani food

aid in Satoy following the

conflict in Chechnya that

left 700,000 displaced

Thousands of refugees in

Bosnia benefit from extensive

development programmes, including aid

for traumatised children in

Sarajevo, foster care and orphan welfare

schemes in Tuzla

1985

Birth 5 years 10 years

2005 20152000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

MA HQ moves to Whitechapel, East London and adopts a new logo that highlights the ethos of service to mankind

An earthquake in Gujurat – the worst in 100 years - leaves an estimated 100,000 people dead. MA responds with £500,000 of aid for short and long-term projects

MA launches an ambitious fundraising programme to help those affected by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The appeal raises over 2.3 million and enables MA to step up relief work in the area

Somalia is hit by its worst drought in 60 years – MA launch an emergency appeal that reaches around 1 million of those affected, with food packs, healthcare, water, education and counselling

The tenth MA office is opened in Cambodia, running orphan care, qurbani and microfinance programmes

Offices are set up in Sri Lanka and Indonesia to increase MA’s capability to implement long-term Tsunami rehabilitation programmes in Indonesia, Somalia and India

The British High Commissioner, Richard Clarke,

inaugurates the MA funded

laboratory, library and

computer rooms in the Tayyibat

school, Tanzania

MA raises over £350,000 in

response to a devastating earthquake

in Haiti. After providing

much needed emergency

relief, long-term sustainable

development projects begin

MA opens an office in Sittwe,

Myanmar to implement long-term

development programmes that

will help those affected

MA’s UK Development

department carried out 10

projects which benefitted

7,818 people across the UK

MA’s Lebanon Appeal raises

over £700,000 for emergency

relief and support for civilians who

had previously suffered from

Israeli air strikes

A major school come cyclone shelter is built

during long-term rehabilitation, in

Myanmar

MA signs up to the Make

Poverty History Campaign,

with other civil society groups, for urgent and

significant action on world poverty

MA Chairman meets with

Bosnian President, Alija

Izetbegovic, to agree to

a £250,000 programme to rebuild houses

destroyed by conflict

£2.3m

MA wins International Charity of the Year

MA turns 30 years old


Muslim Aid was born out of an emergency and has continued to be among the first NGOs on the scene of emergencies worldwide over the last 30 years. From responding during internal and cross-border conflicts to natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, Muslim Aid has provided tailored and culturally sensitive assistance to millions of people in need around the world.

EmergencyRelief

“Everything we lost, we found a replacement at Beity.” Ruba, Syrian orphan and beneficiary of Muslim Aid’s Beity Orphanage

In response to the Gulf War, MA -among the first of

the NGOs to enter Basra-delivered food and medicine to displaced people in Iraq

MA sent 524 tonnes of relief items, including 1,000 baby essential kits, medicines for 20,000 people in Visoko &

two ambulances in Sarajevo

MA invested £100,000 in humanitarian work for

those displaced by the conflict in Kosovo

1990 1995 1999

Highlights

Muslim Aid was formed in response to the humanitarian crises that plagued East Africa in the 1980s. Between the 1970s and the early 1990s, regions in Africa suffered more than twenty years of severe drought which led to famine. Widespread conflicts in the region further exacerbated the humanitarian situation across the region as resources became scarcer and families were forced to seek refuge.

The events inspired Muslim Aid’s formation and inaugural humanitarian programme. After raising £259,000 in the UK, Muslim Aid was able to begin providing emergency assistance to those affected in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi and Ghana. Assistance extended to Sudan in 1988 with medicine food and blankets. Distributions of tents, food, blankets and medicine also took place across Ethiopia, Mozambique and Angola to ease the suffering of some of the 16 million people affected by the famine, while Somali refugees in Kenya received 200 tonnes of food from Muslim Aid. Two daily meals were also provided to 3,000 Somalis through feeding centres in Mogadishu. In 1991 Muslim Aid established a field office in Sudan to provide effective long-term support across Africa. Thirty years later, Muslim Aid still operates through its offices in Sudan, Somalia and Kenya to provide humanitarian aid to millions of people in need.

Humanitarian Crises Horn of Africa

At a glance:

“Muslim Aid responds to emergency relief with compassion

and dignity with the aim of empowering those who suffer the

brutality of natural disasters.”

Baroness Manzila Pola Uddin

MA responded to the earthquake in Gujerat, India-the worst to hit in a century-by providing £500,000 worth

of emergency relief

MA responded to the victims of the tsunami

within 48 hours, providing assistance in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Somalia

MA raised £700,000 for emergency relief and refugee support

for victims of the Israeli conflict with Lebanon

MA raised over £4million, with £1.2million raised in one night, as a result of the extensive conflict in

Gaza

2001 2004 2006 2014

In 2011 internal conflict in Syria led to what the UN described as the biggest refugee crisis since World War II and the direst humanitarian situation of our time. While millions have fled the conflict and are living as refugees in camps and shelters, millions remain displaced inside Syria and lack access to basic amenities. Muslim Aid reached 17,899 families inside Syria and provided them with one month food packages filled with staple and nourishing food items. Through its field offices in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, Muslim Aid has also distributed food, blankets, winter clothes, hygiene kits and educational supplies. In Turkey, Muslim Aid established ‘Beity’, an orphanage which houses 100 Syrian children orphaned by the conflict. Children are provided with quality education, nourishing meals, healthcare and shelter. The success of Beity has inspired plans to recreate the programme inside Syria to provide a safe haven for orphaned Syrian children caught in the conflict.

SyriaOngoing support



Muslim Aid firmly believes that education and vocational training are vital tools in the fight against poverty, and is committed to providing formal and non-formal education to marginalised communities in order to prepare them for a better future. For 30 years, our education programmes have served millions of people and range from pre-school initiatives to adult and vocational education.

Muslim Aid builds, refurbishes and equips schools, trains teachers to provide quality teaching, provides children with school equipment, uniforms and delivers nutritional programmes for children. Every project is tailored to the needs and situations of each individual, whether they are war returnees, refugees, internally displaced or living in hardship. Over the past 30 years Muslim Aid has delivered education and skills training programmes in Bangladesh, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Myanmar.

Education & Skills Training

Securing productive futures

“I am impressed with the work of Muslim Aid. We would like Muslim Aid to support our women development and education programmes in Malawi.” HE Mrs Joyce Banda, Former President of Malawi

MA provided free meals and hundreds of teaching packs for poor students

and built ten libraries for schools in Pakistan

A specialised computer training centre was

opened with MA’ support in the first all women’s

Islamic University, Pakistan

Vice President of Gambia inaugurated MA funded

school for the blind

2000 2001 2002At a glance:

In 2014, 20,000 adults and children benefitted from MA’s education projects worldwide.

Around 3,700 children will have the opportunity to go back to school in 2015. Children living in the camps in Sittwe have not been able to go to school since the conflict began. Muslim Aid’s education project aims to rehabilitate children back into education and refurbish schools that have been destroyed due to conflict. Teachers will be trained in essential teaching and children will be given educational materials and resources to facilitate an easy transition back to school. Muslim Aid has already provided informal education for children in the camps and has renovated six schools, strengthening the capacity of education services in Sittwe.

Providing hope forMyanmar’s children

Since 2007, Muslim Aid’s Institute of Technology (MAIT) Bangladesh has provided ongoing teaching and training in Dhaka, Rangpur, Jessore and Chittagong to over 2,000 students yearly. Many students learn trade skills such as electrical engineering, computer programming, mobile services and repairing, tailoring and beautician skills, helping them to earn an income. MAIT offers subsidised tuition fees or free admission to young students. By 2014, MAIT strengthened its capacity by introducing a new job placement department to support students to gain employment and apprenticeships.

A skilled labour forcein Bangladesh

Guyana’s Prime Minister opened MA funded

computer centre

MA started its street to school project initially

helping 200 street children back into school

in Pakistan

MA rehabilitated five primary schools in Iraq

and provided psychosocial support for war affected

children

Four schools constructed for disadvantaged children

in Sri Lanka

2005 2010 2013 2014

Highlights


Conflict and natural disasters are some factors that leave millions homeless and vulnerable across the world. Housing and shelter plays an important role in resettlement, returning a sense of normality to those affected as well as helping to rebuild sustainable communities.

Muslim Aid has worked to rebuild homes, provide temporary shelter and relocate families after every disaster. Its response to disaster is always two-fold: to build temporary shelters for those left homeless and to develop permanent housing with local partners, taking into account the needs of the community.

In 2013, Muslim Aid completed its model village project in Ranjpur, Mianwali, Dadu, Thatta and Charsadda to help communities affected by the floods of 2010, 2011 and 2013. The villages contain houses with latrines, two health facilities, skills training facilities and a girls school. In the cities of Mianwali and Isha Khel, Muslim Aid provided houses to 90 families living in impoverished conditions. The model villages serve around 22,000 people.

Housing & Shelter

“Muslim Aid has shown its commitment to the people of Aceh now and in the future.” Dr Irwandi Yusuf, former Governor of Aceh speaking about MA’s post-tsunami reconstruction work.

MA delivered much needed aid and shelter to flood affected people in

Punjab

Quarter million funded programme implemented to rebuild houses destroyed by

conflict, Bosnia

MA delivered aid and shelter to survivors of

Hurricane Ivan, Grenada

1996 2000 2004

Model VillagePakistan

Highlights

At a glance:

Rebuilding lives

In 2014 10,460 refugees were assisted with shelters

Turkish PM inaugurated MA project to build 60 apartments for 1999

earthquake survivors, in Adapazari, Turkey

MA provided 3,000 tents to flood affected people in

Cambodia

Ma constructed shelters for 1,680 IDPs in

Myanmar

MA provided shelters to nearly 1,000 IDPs in

Bannu, Pakistan

2005 2012 2013 2014

After the Tsunami claimed the lives of 230,000 people and left around five million homeless in Asia and east Africa, Muslim Aid was among the first agencies on the ground to play a huge role in post-reconstruction. Since 2005, Muslim Aid and its partners provided 3,000 temporary shelters and 2,500 permanent houses for affected communities in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

In 2006 Muslim Aid secured $6.8 million in funding from the Multi Donor Fund to develop a four year flood mitigation project in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an area hit worst by the tsunami. The project was completed in 2009 and ensured communities were better protected against future flooding, through installing three new pumps and repairing drainage channels to regulate water flow and capacity building with Aceh’s city Public Works Department.

A place called home Tsunami post-reconstruction



From as early as 1990, Muslim Aid has been delivering healthcare to impoverished communities worldwide. Projects include building and refurbishing hospitals, training doctors and nurses, providing medical equipment and free medicines to delivering nutritional programmes to promote and ensure health within communities.

In areas of hardship, Muslim Aid also provides mobile health clinics and skilled staff to deliver healthcare for isolated and rural communities. The goal is to ensure that primary healthcare is accessible to all in hardship areas and conflict zones.

Healthcare & NutritionCreating healthy communities Gaza’s failing healthcare system is barely functioning. Poverty, ongoing conflict and sanctions mean the city

is unable to treat the sick and wounded. Muslim Aid has been working in Gaza for over a decade, providing emergency relief and child sponsorship programmes. In 2010, over £130,000 of medical equipment was delivered to the Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza - the largest hospital in the city.

The recent conflict in 2014 required emergency assistance to help thousands of people suffering from the indiscriminate bombings. Muslim Aid provided 8,000 sick and wounded Gazans with life-saving blood supplies and 10,000 people received medicine and benefitted from the medical equipment Muslim Aid provided. 3,000 nutritious meals were given to internally displaced people living in UN shelters. 15,000 litres of fuel was also given to power generators in hospitals.

Muslim Aid is continuing its work with the Palestine Trauma Centre For Victims Welfare and will be providing psychiatrists, social workers and specialised staff for 2,400 children and adults who are suffering from mental trauma. They will receive therapy, food, drama and art sessions to help them get by. Past work with the centre has seen Muslim Aid help over a thousand children overcome post-traumatic stress disorder.

Emergency healthcare Timely & responsive in Gaza

“This is a momentus occasion for Al-Shifa. Our doctors will now have access to equipment donated by MA. This will help treat the population suffering from disability brought on by the conflict.” Spokesperson, Al-Shifa Hospital. 2010

Highlights

At a glance:

Primary healthcare programmes began in

India allowing the poor access to basic healthcare

A year long programme was implemented in Somalia with feeding centres in

Mogadishu supplying two daily meals to over 3,000

people

MA provided vital equipment worth

£40,000 for a hospital in Tesanj, Bosnia

1992 1993 1994

Over 2 million peoplebenefitted from MA’s healthcare

and nutrition programmes worldwide in 2014

Tuberculosis (TB) is a common disease in Somalia but can be easily prevented. By 2012 Muslim Aid had opened its eleventh clinic in Somalia to reduce TB and its effects through prevention and treatment. Waterborne diseases such as Malaria are also very common in Somalia. In 2013 alone, Muslim Aid, along with UNICEF, treated and prevented Malaria in over 200,000 patients through its Malaria prevention and treatment project in south and central Somalia. The project included the distribution of mosquito nets, conducting awareness training and providing treatment. In 2014 Muslim Aid also facilitated the vaccination of 800,000 children in Somalia against polio and measles. Further healthcare programmes in Somalia include mother and child clinics across the regions of Sanag, Hiran, Banadir, Lower Shabelle, Juba and Bakool. These clinics test an average of 70 patients per day, providing free medical services including diagnosis, lab analysis and nutritional supplementation. In 2014 alone, 436,800 mothers and children were given treatment and preventative care.

Prevention & Treatmentin Somalia

MA Sudan established 7 primary healthcare

centres helping 145,000 people

MA donated funds to the International Centre for

Eye Health to help prevent and cure child blindness in

eight countries

1,000 women benefited from ante-natal care in

rural Pakistan

Sudan implemented its three year community

based healthcare programme in Kassala

1995 2006 2010 2015


Since 1988, Muslim Aid’s flagship programme has been providing interest-free loans for the poor in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Bosnia among others, and has positively promoted economic growth for sustainable development. Each year, thousands of people, of which 95% are women, have benefitted from our poverty reduction programme. Muslim Aid recognises that in many places in the world, women have been disproportionately excluded from taking part in economic, social and political life.

Muslim Aid has helped thousands of individuals with loans to start their own business, but before doing so, they are taught vital skills to help them set up their own small medium enterprises (SMEs). Thus over the past two decades people in Indonesia have been taught sustainable farming methods to produce vegetables to sell; in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq and Cambodia, women have been taught tailoring and book keeping skills; families in Bosnia have been given cattle and trained in milk production and bee keeping for the production and sale of honey.

Microfinance

On average, over 47,000 marginalised people are supported with livelihood programmes yearly

Over £6 million invested MA helped people start

their own textile business in Khartoum, Sudan

2,000 people given interest free loans and

skills training to set up their business in

Bangladesh

MA expanded its microfinance and

livelihood programme to people in Kenya and

Palestine

1988 1993 1998

Sustainable solutions to poverty

At a glance:

Around 59,000 beneficiaries are active under Muslim Aid’s

microfinance programme on a yearly basis

MA started livelihood programme in Tsunami

affected Indonesia

MA started its microfinance programme

in Cambodia

2,400 people in Pakistan benefited from MA’s

agricultural livelihood programme

MA Indonesia started mushroom cultivation

training, which supported 1,900 people with a

livelihood

2005 2007 2013 2014

Muslim Aid’s goal is to ensure the economic recovery of rural areas. Since 2008, Muslim Aid has been working to improve the lives of the war returnees in eastern Bosnia. Muslim Aid introduced the ‘greenhouse project’ which provides families with a greenhouse and the tools and seeds to cultivate vegetables to sell. The project has become a success and farmers are now selling locally and exporting their produce to countries such as Germany. Further jobs have been created through this project which has seen the community prosper. As the project expands yearly, a large number of the returnees who have greenhouses have become sub-contractors which have created a ripple economic effect. Muslim Aid also started a milk farm project to support rural communities. This involves donating calves to disadvantaged families and delivering skills training in order for them to start a business. The project has been running since 2011 along with a beekeeping business to help widows to sell honey in the local market for a sustainable income.

Gift for lifeBosnia

A success story in SudanFrom as early as 1998, Muslim Aid has been supporting poor communities in Sudan with income generation and microfinance loans. 75% of Sudan’s population live on $2 a day or less and are often unable to meet their basic needs. 46 year old Fathya, received an interest-free loan and started a business in traditional perfumery – selling perfumes in the local market. She now makes around 2500 SDG per month (around £27) to support her family.

Highlights



A relatively new addition to Muslim Aid, the UK Development programme is steadily growing to become one of the organisation’s most innovative departments tackling poverty and social exclusion in the UK.

Established in 2011, with an investment of almost £200,000, the UK programmes include an annual winter campaign and a prisoners project amongst others. The popularity of these projects prove social issues such as poverty, homelessness and social exclusion are issues the British public want to address. Muslim Aid is leading on the prisoners rehabilitation programme aimed at providing mentoring services for soon to be released prisoners, with the aim of reducing reoffending rates.

Muslim Aid reaches out to the elderly and the homeless, providing ‘Keep Warm Kits’ to thousands up and down the country through its Warm Hearts Winter Campaign. These kits contain food items, blankets, sleeping bags, gloves, socks and other winter essentials to keep the worst effects of the cold at bay. The organisation also works with homeless shelters to provide advice services, fund soup kitchens and hold gatherings for the elderly to help build support networks that combat loneliness and isolation.

UK Development

MA launched its Warm Hearts Winter Campaign to support the homeless

and elderly during the harsh cold months

4,546 homeless and elderly people

received keep warm kits during the

winter

MA partnered with the Royal London Society for Blind

People (RLSB) to support a community nursery for blind and partially blind children

1,519 people benefitted from MA educational

programmes

2011 20142012 2013

Charity begins at home

“I cycled from Forest Gate to Walthamstow to get to the Soup Kitchen. I’m 85 years old.”

Soup Kitchen visitor, Arthur.

The Soup kitchen, known as Pl84U, is funded by Muslim Aid and provides a hot meal every fortnight to the homeless, elderly and vulnerable communities in east London.

At a glance:

The Bigclean up“Christians, atheists, Muslims and the police,” read the status of Sunbury Flood Volunteers’ Facebook page on Saturday 22 March 2014. It continued: “Where else, other than Sunbury Flood Volunteers would you find that?!”

The UK development team joined the Sunbury Flood Volunteers to assist with the clean-up of Sunbury-on-Thames after flooding struck parts of England destroying many homes. In its aftermath, the flood had left residents with damaged and contaminated property. Equipped with powerhoses, shovels and broom sticks, the team helped to remove damaged and unsafe items away from public pathways and properties, whilst also cleaning riverbanks and pavements of silt, which had made certain areas hazardous.


As a faith-based Muslim NGO, Muslim Aid adheres to both Islamic and humanitarian principles. The Islamic faith requires Muslims to distribute their wealth to those in need, both voluntarily to seek reward, and at times mandatorily.

Since its early years, Muslim Aid has offered services which facilitate wealth distribution to some of the poorest communities around the world through seasonal programmes as well as throughout the year. These include fidya, kaffara, aqiqah, Ramadan and Qurbani services.

ReligiousDues

Sharing wealth as part of faith

MA carried out a Qurbani distribution in Satoy

following the conflict in Chechnya

Survivors of the tsunami in Banda Aceh and the Pakistan earthquake

at H-11 camp received Qurbani meat

Indonesia field office carried out an extensive

meal programme in Ramadan which benefitted 34,000 children across 114

orphanages

1994 2005 2007“There’s only one way to describe it: what a blood transfusion is to a dying person is what Muslim Aid is to us returnees.” Muharem Sinanovic: War returnee, farmer and beneficiary of Muslim Aid’s Qurbani programme in Bosnia

Each year Muslim Aid fundraises for its Ramadan campaign, during which those who observe the month are more charitable. One month food packs containing staple and nutritious food items are distributed to families in need during this time. Community iftars are also organised for people to eat together at meal times and promote cohesion.

As part of Eid ul-Adha celebrations, Muslim Aid carries out its Qurbani programme to distribute fresh meat for families in need, which to date, spans across 40 countries.

The programme has evolved over the years from being seasonal to a year-round programme which tackles poverty and provides families with an income. In 2008, a livelihood element to the programme was introduced, in which animals due to be slaughtered for meat distribution are lent to poor famers for milking, breeding and shearing for income generation. Muslim Aid also cans meat for distribution after Eid celebrations to prolong the programme and reach more beneficiaries.

Ramadan

Qurbani

Highlights

At a glance:

Livelihood programme introduced to make the

Qurbani programme more robust and sustainable

A staggering £650,000 was raised for MA’s Qurbani campaign;

the most raised for the programme to date

Over 10,000 people affected by flooding

benefited from a Qurbani distribution in Pakistan

MA Ramadan and Qurbani programmes implemented in 40 countries worldwide

2008 2009 2011 2015 Over 277,700 people benefitted from Muslim Aid’s Religious Dues

programme in 2013 alone

Partnering with the Islamic Union of Hong Kong to deliver the programme, Muslim Aid provided iftar meals to a school in China. Sai Guo Ying, a student at the school said: “We live thousands of miles apart and do not know each other, but we can now feel the happiness of being a member of the Muslim family. May Allah bless us all with good fortune, health and peace”

China



A clean, fresh water supply and access to quality sanitation are cornerstones of health. Contaminated water, frequently ingested by those in developing countries, leads to the contraction of diseases while a lack of sanitation facilitates conditions in which they can easily be spread to others.

To date, it is estimated that a staggering 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and a further billion do not have access to sanitation. Muslim Aid has been addressing this endemic problem since its early days by providing solutions for clean drinking water, installing sanitation facilities and conducting hygiene seminars for communities.

Water &Sanitation

Laying the foundation of health

“We are already seeing changes. There are fewer illnesses such as stomach upsets because children are washing their hands. Water is a precious resource and Muslim Aid has quenched our thirst.” Sri Lanka; headmaster of a school in which MA provided WASH facilities:

MA provided communities in Sudan with water supply systems, giving thousands of families access to clean,

fresh water

MA carried out an extensive well-digging programme, including a well in Darfur

for 120,000 people

MA replaced water pumps in Sri Lanka and

constructed wells in Somalia and Kenya

1996 1999 2005At a glance:

Scarcity of resources and a growing population have been the main problems faced by Gazans for many years, with the quality of water continuously diminishing. In addition, the ongoing conflict has resulted in a lack of available resources to create an adequate water and sanitation system, and subsequently illnesses such as kidney failure and renal disease are prevalent.

In 2006, Muslim Aid installed 50 water purification systems, and distributed over 10 million water purification tablets and 200,000 oral rehydration sachets. In addition, Muslim Aid completed the construction of a water plant in Gaza which benefitted 100 schools, 10 hospitals and 500 families. The plant made clean water readily available to hundreds of thousands of people and helped to significantly reduce the occurrence of diseases brought on by drinking contaminated water. In 2008 Muslim Aid went on to establish a sewage network in Gaza which benefitted 8,000 households.

Water Crisis in Gaza

In response to Cyclone Sidr, MA distributed

696,705 water purification tablets and 9

water purification systems

MA constructed a well in Bebnin Village, Lebanon, to provide clean water to Palestinian refugee

families

729 wells built in 5 countries, benefitting

115,115 people

70 toilets were built across three districts in Sri Lanka to provide hygienic

sanitation solutions for people

2007 2012 2013 2014

Highlights

In 2011, Muslim Aid began a water, sanitation, health and hygiene programme in Indonesia to improve the living conditions of students across four schools in the aftermath of the 2010 Mount Merapi volcanic eruptions. Seminars were held for children and adults on hygiene and waste disposal. To supplement the training, first aid boxes and hygiene kits were distributed to schools which benefitted 770 children in total, with a further 600 households benefitting from an expansion of the programme.

Quality sanitation for school children in Indonesia

In 2014 alone over 120,000 people benefitted from Muslim Aid’s

water & sanitation prgrammes


In 1990, soon after its inception, Muslim Aid formed a child support scheme, later known as the Rainbow Family Child Support Programme in 2007.

The programme offers a holistic solution to child poverty around the world, giving donors in the UK the opportunity to directly sponsor a child from a range of countries. Orphaned, vulnerable and impoverished children are selected through a needs assessment process and referred to the programme through field offices and trusted partners where they are then paired with a donor. Muslim Aid has always considered education paramount, and so it is a condition that children taking part in the programme are formally educated. Once sponsored, children are provided with their sponsorship funds, education, mentoring, healthcare, food and clothing. The model of the programme is designed to protect children against being forced to become labourers and to lift them out of the cycle of poverty.

Starting with only 76 child sponsored in six countries, the programme has grown considerably to date. Since it was introduced 25 years ago, the programme has now served thousands of children and supported them into adulthood. Sponsorship improved their quality of life considerably, and many have gone on to higher education and have pursued their occupational aspirations having been lifted out of the cycle of poverty. In addition to one-to-one child sponsorship, thousands of other children benefit from the programme through community projects. These include free health clinics, refurbishing school premises, emotional support and gifts for special occasions such as Eid.

RainbowFamily

Supporting child development

MA established its child support programme

MA provided orphan welfare schemes and

foster care in Tuzla, Bosnia

Child Support programme extended to Iraq upon the

establishment of a MA presence in the region

1990 1994 2003

“I have seen how my money has helped a Rainbow family and I can see Kima (sponsored child) is benefiting from this.These children don’t need our pity , they just need to be given a chance for a better future.” Donor, Rehana Abdool, visits her sponsored child, Kima, in Cambodia. 2010

At a glance:

Cambodia field office implemented child

support programme

The programme expanded, and is now

running in 17 countries through 11 field offices

and 10 partners

MA Indonesia supported 260 orphans and

vulnerable children with education, health and

food assistance

Over 17,000 children received eid gifts

2007 2013 2014 2015 Over 5,500 children are being sponsored as of 2015

Bega Karadza, was orphaned as a child, living only with her mother and other relatives in poor conditions with little money to spare for her education and living costs. It was Bega and her late father’s dream that she become a doctor, and after receiving sponsorship from a donor through Muslim Aid’s Rainbow Family Support Programme, their dream became a reality. She received a monthly stipend which enabled her to continue with her studies and she is now a medical student. She said: “I am one of those fortunate people who have been continuously assisted by Muslim Aid…the programme not only provided me with sponsorship but also with the knowledge that someone cares.”

“I want to be a doctor.” Bega Karadza


The 30 years until this point have seen Muslim Aid constantly evolve and develop, and the journey ahead will be no different. The organisation will continue to work on innovative approaches to aid delivery and long-term programmes, keeping abreast on project ideas that provide breakthrough solutions to development challenges around the world. Despite the tests modern wars and complex emergencies are presenting the humanitarian sector with, Muslim Aid will continue to serve the most vulnerable communities with poverty alleviation programmes that are sustainable, cost-effective and life-changing. The focus for the next five years is to concentrate on four key programmes: healthcare, education, livelihood and emergencies, ensuring communities prosper and individuals live productive lives.

Muslim Aid’s reach would not be so strong without forming collaborative partnerships with local governments, grass root organisations and international and local NGOs. The organisation will therefore continue to build fruitful and lasting partnerships with stakeholders who will carry out its work further and with greater impact. Muslim Aid will also continue to work alongside its beneficiary communities to explore and develop new ways to empower children and their families, listening to their needs and finding lasting workable solutions.

The JourneyAhead


Muslim Aid BangladeshHouse # 13, Block “J”Road # 27, BananiDhaka-1213Bangladesh

Muslim Aid America7880 Backlick RdSpringfield, VA 22150USA

Muslim Aid BosniaTalirovica 26Sarajevo71000Bosnia

Muslim Aid CambodiaVilla: 113, Street: 542, BoeungKak I, Khan Toul KorkPhnom PenhCambodia

Muslim Aid Lebanon2nd Floor, AlFakhoury Bld. Al Nejmeh Square SaidaLebanon

Muslim Aid PakistanHouse No. 228, Street No. 23F-11/2, IslamabadPakistan

Muslim Aid SomaliaMadina RoadHamar JajabDistrict MogadishuSomalia

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka219 Nawala RoadNugegodaSri Lanka

Muslim Aid IndonesiaJalan Bintara Pineung No. 27Gampong PineungBanda AcehNAD, 23116Indonesia

Muslim Aid JordanNo 85 Mousa Al Sakit StreetTlaa Al Ali DistrictAmmanJordan

Muslim Aid Kenya233 Ap. SchoolLane-West LandOff Sarit Centre Karuna RoadP O Box 2306-00100Nairobi, Kenya

Muslim Aid SudanKhartoum East, AldiumBlock No. 3, House No. 48, 2nd FloorKhartoum State, Sudan

Muslim Aid Sweden Sorögatan 21 , 164 41 KistaSweden

Muslim Aid HeadquartersPO BOX 3London, E1 1WPUnited Kingdom

Muslim Aid Birmingham541 Coventry RoadSmall HeathBirmingham, B10 0LL, UK

Muslim Aid Manchester557A, Barlow Moor RoadChorltonManchester, M21 8AN, UK

Field Offices

UK Offices

Countries we work in

Field Offices

T: 020 7377 4200E: [email protected]: muslimaid.org


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