Muslim women take a lead in their community with Texas tornado relief...
On Easter Sunday morning, several teams of volunteers headed to tornado-hit sites in Arlington and Lancaster, answering the call of several disaster relief organizations. Locally, Irving based Muslim non-profit humanitarian relief organization OneNation Relief and Charity, an operating arm of Baitulmaal USA for local US-based relief work, started mobilizing their volunteers after the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex was hit by devastating tornadoes last Tuesday. Last night, Baitulmaal and One Nation pulled a crew of volunteers to help clear tornado debris in an Arlington neighborhood on Hidden Oaks Lane this morning. More than twenty five volunteers with work gloves started picking up debris and loading them onto trailers and pick-up beds. When rain started pouring down around 2:00 pm, the volunteers continued working till 3:00...
Muslim Society Organizes Clothing and Food Donations...
By Jamie Komarnicki published 2 years ago Original Article Source: Calgary Herald Photo: Volunteers Hiba Fadol (left) and Souad Abdelrehim were on hand to help with the Muslim Families Network Society’s city-wide food and clothes distribution on April 11, 2010 at the Falconridge community centre. Photograph by: Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald Four years ago, Hanan and Mohamed left their homeland, Sudan, eager to begin a new life in Calgary. Mohamed, a trained nurse, soon got a job working in a private home, and the couple happily settled in to raise their young family. But two years ago when the economy took a turn for the worse, like many other Calgarians, Mohamed lost his job. Since then, he hasn’t...
Muslim Students Bring Food, Conversation to Florida Homeless...
March 29, 2010 Imran Siddiqui | Tampa In the southern U.S. state of Florida, a group of American Muslim students is running a non-profit organization called Project Downtown. The project’s goal is to help the poor, poor people of all backgrounds and cultures. Our correspondent went down to the city of Tampa, Florida to learn more about Project Downtown and the Muslim students who belong to it. Like just about any major city in the United States, the city of Tampa has its share of homeless people. But it also has people who are reaching out to help Tampa’s homeless. “We are here because, in Islam, we are supposed to feed the hungry,” said one of the students....
Muslims mark Eid with food drive for poor...
Published On Sun Oct 14 2007 Dale Anne Freed Imran Yousuf had good reason to feel buoyed by the celebrations of plenty that marked the end of the 30-day holy month of Ramadan at the Rogers Centre yesterday. Yousuf, 30, was one of more than 10,000 faithful Muslims who came to the stadium to pray and celebrate Eid. He is also the force behind a Muslim food drive for Toronto’s poor held at the end of every Ramadan for the last six years. The first year the Ramadan food drive raised more than 20 kilos of non-perishable items. This year he estimates they raised close to 180 kilos, he said as the faithful on the football field looked...
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