Charity Week

Climate change is severely impacting upon the lives of families and the health and education of children in Mali. With frequent flooding and droughts in a country heavily dependent on rain-fed agriculture, this already struggling economy is struggling.

Our Child Friendly Village project works holistically to improve the educational, health and emotional wellbeing of children of over 3,000 children in five villages in Kati. We’re doing this by:

• Building primary schools
• Establishing child protection clubs
• Supplying vital medicines and training midwives
• Providing vocational training and micro-finance loans for widows and older orphans

Thanks to this project Malian orphans and vulnerable children will insha’Allah be able to grow a brighter, healthier future for themselves.

Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, millions of people in India are facing increasing poverty. In Kathihar (Bihar) for example, hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children are sold into slavery and child marriage.

Our Alternative Orphan Sponsorship programme will therefore be supporting children in Katihar by:

• Providing 300-care givers with skills training to establish self-sufficiency
• Offering two-years schooling to 300 orphans
• Setting up Child Protection Committees to protect 3,000+ vulnerable children from trafficking
• Addressing the additional needs and vulnerabilities of disabled children and orphans

By helping carers to become financially self-sufficient, children will be able to continue their schooling and insha’Allah look towards a more stable, safer future.

With the escalation of conflict in Syria, many children require emergency shelter, food and care. For those who have fled Syria to neighbouring countries, poverty is also a stark reality. A whole generation of Syrian children have been unable to fulfil their basic needs and lack critical educational and mental support.

That’s why we’re working with 5,000 Syrian children inside Syria and Lebanon to help ensure that they can have a more stable future by:

• Providing food, medical care and psychosocial support
• Building and refurbishing playgrounds, schools, orphanages. a sports club and a school ICT centre
• Supplying school furniture, laptops, photocopiers, heating and stationery

Insha’Allah, local and refugee children will gain critical education, recreational and emotional support to move beyond the hardships of war.

With decades of civil war and the devastating effects of natural disasters, hundreds of thousands of orphans across Somalia are struggling to survive. Trapped in the brutal cycle of poverty and unable to go to school and work, generation after generations face destitution.

Our latest project in Somalia will support over 5,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Hargeisa by building and equipping two vocational training centres and offering a combination of skilled trainers to teach children and interest free micro-finance loans for those wishing to start their own businesses.

With new training and start-up opportunities, Somalia’s youth can start to build sustainable futures free from poverty.

More than three decades of conflict have devastated Afghanistan’s educational system. Completing primary school remains a distant dream for many children, especially those in rural areas and for girls in poor and hard-to-reach areas.

As a result, orphans and vulnerable children across Afghanistan are trapped in a cycle of poverty. Without an education these children are unable to access adequate employment and create a better future for themselves. We’re therefore working to address these needs by:

• Providing access to over 2,000 children (in particular girls) to primary education
• Building teacher capacity and recruiting 40 female teachers over three years
• Supplying stationery and equipment for teachers
• Delivering child rights awareness courses to over 400 families and community-based organisations

By providing access to education and critical female role-models for both male and female students, Afghanistan’s youth can work towards a future beyond the hardships of war and poverty.