World Water Day

Today is World Water Day and here's how you can get involved!

MGR runs the Water4Life Project in five countries across two continents. With your help we improve the health and life quality of families by providing them with a life source, and one of our most basic of needs. The solutions are simple, and they cost us next to nothing compared to everything these people stand to lose.

We install hand pumps

We build wells

We operate water tankers

We distribute bottled water

Start your Fundraising campaign today... 

Give a shallow bore hand pump from £170

Give a deep bore hand pump from £470

Give a water well in Ghana from £3,500

Give a water well in Gambia from £4,000

Give a water well in India & Pakistan from £630

Give water in Gaza with monthly water tanker distribution from £980 annually

Get your friends involved! 

If you and 9 friends gave £30 per month we could build a water well in Ghana or Gambia! Such a well can provide safe water for up to 2,000 people, depending on the region.

In Gaza, MGR distributes clean water via tankers to 100 families with safe water on a monthly basis. Water distribution costs a mere £980 for the entire year. That’s you and 5 friends giving less that £10 a month to change lives!

In India and Pakistan, MGR installs hand pumps where between 10 to 35 families can benefit form a single hand pump, depending on the region. If you and 5 of your friends gave £8 a month for a year, we could build a deep bore hand pump for a destitute community in India or Pakistan.

Or maybe you want to start a fundraising activity such as a run, a coffee morning or car wash... read some idea's here and we always welcome more! 

Start your own FUNdraising campaign? You'll help thousands and have a great time too!

Feel passionate about an issue, but not sure how to help? Why not start your own fundraising campaign? It’s easier than it sounds!

Creating positive impact with the simplest solutions. It doesn’t cost us much to provide a vulnerable person or poor community with opportunities for a better future. In fact, it costs us next to nothing compared to everything these people stand to lose.

Step 1: Pick A Project

MGR has many projects you can fundraise for. Here are a few, and some idea of how much they cost.

• Plant ten Trees = £100
• Give a family a Goat = £120
• Sponsor an Orphan for a year = £324
• Give a deep bore Hand Pump = £470
• Give a Water Well in Ghana = £3,500
• Establish a Water Filtration Plant in Gaza = £5,000
• Build a Mosque in Indonesia = £9,000
• Enable us to provide Free Dialysis in Pakistan = £15,000

Step 2: Fundraise

This feels like the hard part, but actually it’s easier than you think. There are many ways to fundraise, and we’ve got a couple of Fundraising Ideas that could give you a head start. 

Step 3: You've done it!

You've helped us change the lives of thousands of people.

It's Your Call; What will you do?

At Muslim Global Relief (MGR), we know the value of recurring charity, projects that support sustainable development and have ongoing benefits to communities. They enable people to gradually improve their quality of life, benefitting their children and future generations. 

We run the It’s Your Call programme, which turns one off donations into recurring charity projects, the programme allows donors to decide how they want to help. 

It’s Your Call: you decide what you want to fund or build; you determine the cost. 

There are two ways you can take on an It’s Your Call project: 

• Develop your own idea or pick one of our popular It’s Your Call projects. (This could range from building a school for a poor, rural village in Indonesia to building a community well in Ghana)
• OR if your means are more limited, you can donate towards a larger commitment project, which other It’s Your Call donors are also contributing towards. (This could be a dialysis clinic in Pakistan, or a water filtration plant in Gaza)

Here are some typical projects MGR regularly runs under the It’s Your Call Programme:

You could fund the construction of a Mosque for £9,000 or get your friends and family to participate.

Part donations welcome.

You can fund the cost of a dialysis machine from £15,000 or get your friends and family to participate. Part donations welcome.

You can give the gift of water by building a handpump or a well from £170.00.

Establish a Water Filtration Plant in Gaza from £5,000.

Part donations welcome.

All of these projects if completed using Sadaqa donation become Sadaqah Jariyah - the project can span from 1 day to 100 years and maybe more.

What could be a better gift than one that will help vulnerable people around the world?

Find out more about our It's Your Call project on our website, or give us a call on 01282 604055. You can read some stories about past It's Your Call projects here.

£1 = Big Change

£1 a month... it’s small change right? but lots of people who donate together can move mountains for world’s most poor and vulnerable with nothing but a struggle to survive.  

We want to make the world a better place without a large financial commitment from those who wish to give. Our motto of “bringing hope to life” visibly translates into our work across the world regardless of colour or creed. We work to eradicate poverty, disease and respond to people in crisis and natural disaster. Your £1 a month might not sound like much but we believe in the strength of many people like yourselves making a real difference. 

It’s a little that does a lot!

Sign up to a £1 a month direct debit on our website, or download our direct debit form. Or if you prefer to give a one off donation of one pound, you can text "CHNG99 £1" to 70070.

The Season of Giving and Good Will

As the festive season approaches, and the end of 2015 is near we are taking a look back at what we have done this year around the world by creating an Advent Calendar of Achievements.

You can take a look at our Advent of Achievements as we reveal them each day on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/muslimglobalrelief

All our achievements would not be possible without such a fantastic amount of support from all our staff, volunteers and donors!

We are very proud of what we have achieved this year and would love to make them even better and bigger, you can help... Give A Gift this Christmas to someone less fortunate. You could give the gift of love by Sponsoring an Orphan, give the gift of health by donating towards our FeedMe and Water4Life projects which helps communities out of the poverty cycle by allowing them to go back to work and school instead of having to spend hours collecting water, being ill from contaminated water or lack of nutrition. Give the gift of time by becoming a volunteer, there are so many ways you can help! 

You can donate online!

By texting 'MGRS01' for a general donation | 'WATW10' for a Water Well | 'WATH10' for a Water Hand Pump | 'FEED05' for FeedMe, adding the donation amount and send to 70070. e.g. Text "MGRS01 £10" to 70070 to donate £10 to our projects. (Denominations are £1, £2, £3, £5, and £10). 

Call us on 01282 604055.

Or by post. Please make cheques payable to MGR and send to: Muslim Global Relief, PO Box 2018, Nelson, BB9 7WB

Thank you, all our beneficiaries are so grateful! Read Hadiza Musa's story here: http://muslimglobalrelief.org/water4life-hadiza-musas-story/

World Toilet Day - Around the world in 45 toilets

World Toilet Day is this Thursday (19th November) - as part of our Water4life project we want to improve sanitation for poor, vulnerable communities around the world. 

Poor sanitation causes poor health and perpetuates poverty in developing countries. Poor health means people of limited means are forced to spend money they haven’t enough of, on treatment and medicine. This is money that could otherwise be spent on food; school books; tools and materials that can generate income. Poor health also affects productivity, so that people who could be working to earn their daily bread, are unable. 

2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers, according to the United Nations. 

Even where there are toilets around the world, some hardly warrant the name, as illustrated by Reuters in a photo essay from around the world. Click below to see the video.

You can donate towards our sanitation project via our website, click here. Or you can call us on 01282 604055. 

Find out more about our Water4life project and start your own campaign... click here.

Water4Life: Fatou Khan’s Story

In Gambia, MGR works with ROCA to build water pumps and community wells. Depending on the region, a single well can provide clean water for up to 2,000 people. Families use the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, laundry and often even watering crops during dry season. Here’s how MGR’s Water4Life Project changed the life of Fatou Khan and her family in Gambia.

“My name is Fatou Khan and I am 39 years old. Where I live, it was difficult to find clean water, so we used what was available. But even to collect it, we had to walk a long distance every day. Then we had to purify it, because this water was not pure. When we drank it, it made people in my family sick, and the children frequently had diarrhoea.

Things changed when MGR and ROCA built a well in our village. The well has improved the health of my family and it has given a better quality of life to our community. The well is near our compound, so we don’t need to travel to get it every day. It is clean, so we don’t need to purify it before drinking. It is also enough to use for bathing, cooking and laundry. I thank Allah (swt), for allowing us to get clean water through MGR.”

Start your own Water4life Campaign to help another family like Fatou's.
Fatou Khan wants to work to improve her family’s quality of life. She’s willing and capable. She just needs a little help to start up, and the right opportunities. Here’s Fatou Khan’s appeal to MGR donors.
“My husband is a teacher, but his income isn’t enough to support our family of twelve. We sometimes receive food aid, or Qurbani meat during special occasions like Eid. But during the rest of the year, it is difficult to feed everyone. My husband’s second wife and I, stay at home to care for our seven children and my husband’s parents. But we would like to learn vocational skills, like tailoring and tie-dying. This will help us to earn money for our family too.”
Provide Fatou Khan with vocational training

Donate food to Fatou Khan’s family