The final week of Ramadan...

The final week of Ramadan is here – with children excited about Eid Ul Fitr, the celebration where people exchanged gifts. Yet for refugees or those living in poverty, it does not seem like a day for celebration. It is just another day, with the daily struggles and hardships. 

And they also ask you about what they should spend. Say: ‘(spend) whatever is surplus to your needs’. (Quran 2:219)

Will you choose to help?

Give gifts

MGR Eid Gifts project is specifically designed for poor and vulnerable children so that they too can have a happy and blessed Eid. No one should have to celebrate Eid without gifts, especially not children.

Zakat ul Fitr

Donate just £3 to provide a child with a gift. It must be paid before Eid prayer so that the poor can enjoy the pleasure of Eid.

Fidya

For those who are unable to fast throughout the month of Ramadan – for each missed fast please donate £6 to feed a poor person twice a day.

Please do not delay and send us your Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah and Fitra donations today.

BRING HOPE TO LIFE TODAY…

Donate via our website or by calling 01282 604055

We give love during Ramadan... Please GIVE LOVE

Ramadan is a time of sharing love and putting aside our differences and uniting together. What if the only person you had to rely on was yourself as a vulnerable infant without care and affection?

Millions of children in third world countries have suffered catastrophic family breakdown, such that these children – true Orphans – fend for themselves without love of a family and a champion for their lives. These children, the Ones at the very end of humanity’s line, have disappeared from our world’s “helping” agenda.

MGR has 100s of orphan children around the world waiting for you to help them – WILL YOU SPONSOR AN ORPHAN THIS RAMADAN FOR A WHOLE YEAR?

We focus on MyOrphan's Home-Based Care - where children that have been orphaned are taken in by a caring and loving extended family, who are provided with the resources to look after the child's/children's needs and education. MGR strongly believes that children belong and thrive in a family-environment. All our projects seek to provide orphans with loving family-style care.

During the orphan sponsorship, MGR looks after a child’s educational needs throughout the term – we pay for his/her school fees, transportation to and from school, educational literature, a school uniform and also provide financial support to the family, where possible.

How YOU can help:

The cost of sponsoring an orphan child is either £30.00 per month or£360.00 annually

We give up water during Ramadan... Please GIVE WATER

During Ramadan we abstain from drinking (subject to medical constraints) to better focus our lives on prayer and meditation, but imagine not having safe water to drink all the time. 

Diseases from drinking unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Cholera can kill within a day. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren’t strong enough to fight diarrhoea, dysentery and other illnesses. 

MGR’s Water4life Project brings relief to communities around the world who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation. The WHO reports that over 3.6% of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply, sanitation, and hygiene. 

Providing access to clean, safe water helps capable and determined people realise the hope they have for their own futures.

We’re passionate about unlocking potential. After all, water doesn’t change anything; the people we help with your kind donation do.

For a small investment, you can fund long-lasting water projects that serve villages, mosques and schools.

Wells and handpumps can provide a reliable source of drinking water allowing communities to become more able to grow themselves out of poverty. You can help restore hope.

We located, drilled and commissioned 6 water wells & 83 hand pumps throughout South Asia, Ghana and in Gambia. We purchased and distributed 5,000 - 2.5lt bottles of drinking water; and provided 250,000 litres of clean drinking water supplied by road tankers for the people in the Gaza Strip.

THE FACTS

• 440 million school days lost every year to water-related sickness. 

• Nearly 1 in 5 deaths under the age of five that occur due to dirty water. 

• 840,000 people die each year due to water related diseases

• Every $ invested has a return of between $3 and $34!

How You Can Help:

• ONLY £1.50 for each 2L Bottle of Water to a poor household

• £170.00 for a handpump in an area where water level is high

• £470.00 for a handpump in an area where water level is low - desert type regions

• £630.00 for a community well

Donate online: www.muslimglobalrelief.org

Or call us today to give: +44(0)1282 604055

Text WATH10 plus amount to 70070 (£1, £5 or £10)

e.g: To give £5 text WATH10 £5 to 70070

We give up food during Ramadan... Please GIVE FOOD

During the Holy Month we abstain from eating during daylight hours. Not having what we normally take for granted enables us to realise how blessed we are in our own lives and think of the less fortunate.

What if you had to fast 24 hours a day due to a lack of nourishing food?

Giving up our fast each evening is a welcome part and important part of each day, but here’s a fact that you won’t see in the news. Approximately 26,000 to 30,000 children under the age of 5 living in extreme poverty die each day.

Why should we accept this as an inevitability in our lives? 

Feeding the hungry and helping the poor is an integral part of MGR and along with our donors we work hard to uplift the poor as they struggle with poverty and hunger.
We hear their desperate cries and take swift action, bringing positive and lasting change to these communities.

MGR’s FeedMe project helps the poorest people to have at least one nourishing meal every day. We also provide families with wheat grain, pulses, lentils, ghee, sugar and oil to name a few. Throughout last year nearly 70,000 people were fed.

How you can help?

Iftari/Sehri project: Help hundreds of people everyday with their daily requirements of food and water to enable them to fast. Donate just £6.00 to give a hungry person a healthy and fulfilling meal.

Goats: Providing healthy, living goats to poor families in order to provide milk to drink and produce their own cheese - surplus milk and cheese can be sold for some income or exchanged for other edible items. Donate just £120.00 for one healthy goat to a poor family.

Chickens: Each chicken can lay around 5 eggs a day which not only provides families with protein in their diet, but allows the surplus to be sold to buy/exchange for other commodities. Donate £10.00 to provide 3 healthy chickens.

FOOD PARCEL Project: Food prices in developing countries have more than doubled, pushing millions more into poverty. More and more people now rely on food parcels for just the essentials like milk, bread and flour. £60.00 to provide a family with one month’s essential food rations.

Donate online or call 01282 604055

Salaam to all of you as we welcome the blessed month of Ramadan.

Salaam to all of you as we welcome the blessed month of Ramadan.

2015 marks Muslim Global Relief’s 15th year of helping those less fortunate around the world. As you read this our people are working tirelessly around the world where your valuable donations are still working hard to help those in need.

At MGR, Ramadan presents us the challenge of acquiring your support for our many life-saving projects. This Ramadan we are asking you to help us to continue our projects around the globe. Our emphasis is on the following life changing projects:

• Emergency Relief • My Orphan • Feed Me • Water4life

This Ramadan we would like your help to provide food and water to 100,000 people, through our FeedMe and Water4life projects. We also need to find supporters for hundreds of needy orphans’ still awaiting sponsorship.

You can be a part of this effort! If you are planning on hosting an iftaar this Ramadan for your friends and family, we ask you to consider collecting donations for our It’s Your Call Project. This can be in whatever format you'd like. For example, you can ask for donations instead of having a takeaway which people often do, or have a donation box setup where invitees can make their valuable donations for your chosen project.

As you plan your personal Ramadan iftaars, give your guests the opportunity to donate to your It’s Your Call Project. All you need to do is:

1. Provide some information to your friends and family about our organization and what we do;
2. Have a donation box or envelope at the Iftaar where guests can leave a donation in any amount; and
3. Ask your friends to do the same for their Iftaars!

MGR is a charity you can trust who has the experience in the field to make your valuable donations count.

Thank you for your generous support and Ramadan Mubarak.

Ramadan is coming...

Ramadan is coming:

As the blessed month of Ramadan approaches this year, there are several things you can do to prepare yourself spiritually and physically for the month-long period of fasting.

It is recommended for Muslims to eat a pre-dawn meal each day before the fast begins. The pre-dawn meal provides energy and other benefits to the fasting Muslim during the day so it makes good sense to plan on getting up early to have sahoor.

If you are accustomed to drinking tea or coffee in the morning or during the day, be aware that caffeine withdrawal can cause severe headaches while you are fasting. Take some time before Ramadan to wean yourself from caffeine (perhaps gradually) and decide whether it will be necessary to have any caffeine during the non-fasting hours in Ramadan.

Ramadan is a time for generosity and giving. It is a time when we think about those who have less than us as well as thank Allah for everything he has given us. Ramadan is an honourable and blessed month, and the rewards for generosity are multiplied in it.

Therefore we should get into the habit of giving in charity now so by the time Ramadan arrives we would increase in our generosity, giving to those less fortunate than ourselves. We should give whatever we can afford as Allah looks at our intentions.

Ramadan Appeal 2011

With the current global food shortage, it is estimated that 1 billion people in the world go hungry each night.

Already somewhere in the world a person starves to death every 3.6 seconds and 3/4 of them are children under the age of five

Almost 1/5 of the world’s population (approx 1.32 billion people) live in areas where water is scarce.

Lack of clean drinking water and sanitation leads to water borne infections and even death.

This Ramadan we are asking you to help us to continue our projects around the globe. Our emphasis is on the following:

• Emergency Relief
• My Orphan
• Feed Me
• Water4life
• Community Mosque
• Grow A Fruit Tree

Please download our latest brochure and find out some off the work we have done recently, it tells you what we have done for each
of the above projects and how you can help.

Please unite and put your trust in MGR again and support our projects by sending us your Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah, Fitra donation today.

A simple donation can be made below or online at http://www.blogger.com/www.muslimglobalrelief.com/donate/, via our direct debit form or you can also send a cheque/postal order payable to 'MGR' to the address on this email campaign.

You can also SMS your donation FREE of charge:

MGRR50 £3 - for a one off £3.00 donation of Fitrana to 70070
MGRR50 £5 - for a one off £5.00 donation of Fidya to 70070
MGRR 50 £10 - for a one off £10.00 donation for 6 bottles of water to 70070

We sincerely thank you for your time and continued support.

May Allah Keep you and your family safe.

The MGR Team

MGR East Africa Appeal 2011

Some 10 million people are at risk in the Horn of Africa as a combination of failed rains and soaring global food prices has left people living in remote areas - more than half of them children - without enough food and water and at risk of malnutrition.

Ethiopia faces its worst drought for a decade with an estimated 3.2m people in need of emergency aid. MGR has launched a major humanitarian response in Ethiopia to feed tens of thousands of people and get clean water to remote communities.

Call +44(0)1282 604 055 or visit www.muslimglobalrelief.com/donate SMS your donation FREE of charge MGRR 50 £10 - for a one off £10.00 donation to 70070