Your Zakat Tells Children Around the World They’re Loved and Not Forgotten
Since 1988, Mercy-USA for Aid and Development has been providing humanitarian relief and development to children and their families where the need is greatest. We focus on bringing lasting and reliable help to people in some of the most dangerous parts of today’s world. Your zakat provides consistent food aid and health care in Syria, clean and safe water in Somalia, emergency aid for Rohingya Refugees, education inBosnia, Albania, Gaza, Indonesia, Lebanon, and other long term development projects around the world.
When you donate your zakat to Mercy-USA, it provides food, healthcare, safe water, education and agricultural development to people in need around the world in the most efficient manner possible.
Ameenah’s Ramadan Story
Meet Ameenah and her three younger brothers, Yacoub, Abed and Muhammed from Aleppo, Syria. Their father was killed by a sniper’s bullet, and recently their mother has been kidnapped, and her whereabouts are unknown. The children now live with their elderly grandmother and subsist on cleaning and trimming okra from a local farmer to sell in the city. Thankfully, the monthly food basket from Mercy-USA helps the family survive each month. Ameenah told us, “I know I can’t see my father in this life, but I miss my mother and only want to embrace her again.”
Your zakat during this blessed month will help Ameenah and her little brothers survive in what has been dubbed the world’s most dangerous city, Aleppo.
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Eid ul-Fitr should be a time of great joy and laughter for children and their parents, a day filled with good food, gifts and laughter, but when you’re a Rohingya child who has just escaped horrific trauma, or a Syrian child living under constant threat of bombs dropping overhead, or a Palestinian refugee living in very poor conditions in Lebanon, there isn’t much to celebrate except being alive, alhamdoulillah.
Your donation of $25 per family will also provide the children with the happiness of Eid, parties and gifts and insha’Allah, some laughter and smiles. Celebration and toys can give a child a therapeutic break from the almost daily heartache and frightening experiences. This gift also carries emotional benefits for the mothers and fathers who have not been able to give their children anything more than survival. Imagine, for many, like those we’re helping, being on the run with nothing more than their lives and the clothes on their backs.
