How Your Donations Are Helping The Needy

Nov 27, 2015 by admin

Back in June of this year. AIMS hosted a “The Silent Crisis” fundraising dinner to support the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Iraqis as a result of the political turmoil the country has been in, and through the generosity of the Muslim community in Sydney we were able to raise $450,000 on the night. It was a truly humbling evening.

Since then, the team at AIMS have been working tirelessly with the brothers at Islamic Relief Australia to ensure the money gets through the multiple security and redtape hoops to finally reach its target.

Alhumuillah, just last week, IR-AU informed us that the funds have in fact reached their target.

With the funds raised by AIMS, Islamic Relief identified areas where highly vulnerable refugees are living in order to assist the people most in need. As this project is ongoing the exact location of the distribution is withheld to ensure security for our staff and those we are helping. Islamic Relief staff met with these refugees to hear from them first hand. The refugees told our team that most of them had left everything behind, that they had no form of income and no access to food or hygiene supplies.

Thanks to AIMS, Islamic Relief is providing food packs and hygiene kits to 1,050 families who have fled the conflict in Anbar and are now living in informal settlements. The food packs ensure families are able to eat nutritious food for a month, during which time they will be referred into bigger food programmes with the UN and World Food Program. The hygiene kits include soap and toothbrushes and toothpaste, nappies for babies and sanitary napkins for women, providing dignity to the brave families who have lost everything.

We thank Allah SWT for helping us to provide this assistance to the most needy in Iraq. We humbly thank all the brothers and sisters who joined us on the night and contributed to raising those funds. And we thank the brothers at Islamic Relief Australia for their efforts to get the assistance to where it’s needed most.