Analyse and explain the work of one Muslim agency working for world development:
A Muslim agency helps the people that are suffering around the world. There are many different agencies, but the work of ‘Muslim aid’ will be looked at and explained.
‘Muslim Aid’ is a Muslim agency working for world development. It helps improve the lives of people that are affected by hunger, disease, wars, deprivation, and disasters, all year round. Muslim Aid put into practice emergency, educational and development programmes in 48 countries, promising £2.6 million. They get this money by donations from generous people and by organising various events and activities. They make these events very well known to the world by advertising and making millions of leaflets. When there’s enough money collected, it goes to the countries that are in need the most.
“Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of humanity.” (5:32)
This ayah is encouraging us to give charity. It tells us that if we saved a life, it is so good that it is like you saved the whole humanity. It is very important and has always been at the heart of Muslim Aid’s work.
In the year 2001, Muslim Aid provided help and relief supplies to those people that were suffering in 17 different emergency areas around the world. Most especially was the earthquake in Gujarat, which was ‘the most devastating earthquake India has had in over 100 years.’ An estimated 100,000 died in this earthquake. The famine and war in Afghanistan was also important because it made millions of people homeless. Muslim Aid quickly responded with emergency supplies to those places that were struck by other disasters such as the flash flood in Pakistan, the cyclone in Madagascar, the civil war in Macedonia, The floods in Cambodia, the civil unrest on the island of Ambon in Indonesia, and the yearly floods in Bangladesh that keep on occurring.
This is where your donations were spent
(November 2000 – October 2001)
GRAND TOTAL £3,702,789
This is how your donations were spent
How Muslim Aid has helped countries in the past
There were two major emergency reliefs, which are explained below:
Afghanistan
Since it started in 1985, Muslim Aid has always been dedicated to helping the people of Afghanistan through healthcare, drought relief, skills training, education, and irrigation projects. Afghanistan has been suffering from a drought for the past four years and the civil war and recent aerial bombardments in the country have only made things worse. Even though there are difficult circumstances, Muslim Aid instantly gave £500,00 for food, shelter and medical care for the refugees that were stuck in camps near Peshawar along the Pakistani border, and to the helpless communities in Afghanistan.
Gujarat
The most destructive earthquake there has been in India in over 100 years hit Gujarat. Months later, Muslim Aid continues to help this unfortunate city. The quake, which reached 6.9 on the Richter scale, cost nearly 100,000 lives and made up to a million people homeless. Straight away, Muslim Aid gave £500,000 for a relief and rehabilitation programme that supplied ambulances, medicine, food, water, and shelter to the thousands of people that were suffering in the Kutch, Jambusar, and Rajkot districts of Gujarat. Muslim Aid also provided medical and diagnostic equipment, teaching of medical staff, and skills training worth £50,000 so that the Gujarat people could use it for assistance, and to rebuild their lives.
This is how Gujarat used the £500,00:
• 4 ambulances
• 50 doctors
• tons of food
• medicines
• shelter
• blankets
• counselling
• mobile clinics
• vocational training
• cattle feeding programme
• income generating programmes
Health care
In the year 2001, Muslim Aid spent £433,849 on health care programmes. They worked directly through the field offices in Somalia, Sudan, and Bangladesh, to provide necessary primary health care to people living in distant areas, who would otherwise have to travel long distances for the most basic treatment. They also provided free medicines to hospitals in countries like Uganda, Kenya, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Palestine and many more.
This year Muslim Aid has been determined to serve the needs of the poor. This is done through the purchase of essential medical equipment for hospitals, like hydrotherapy site for El Wafa Hospital, Palestine, an X-ray machine for Reliable Universal Hospital in Gujarat and In Uganda, maternity and paediatric equipment for Kibuli Hospital.
Bangladesh – Building a healthy nation
In Bangladesh, Muslim Aid’s Field Office has ten years of experience in working for the disadvantaged, successfully putting into practice a wide range of programmes in healthcare, education, sanitation, water, relief, rehabilitation, and income generation.
In Bangladesh, those most at risk from ill health and malnutrition amongst those are women and children. Muslim Aid is working to solve this problem by providing immunisation, free medical care, counselling services and education.
For the health of people, safe drinking water is also very important. In Bangladesh, Safe water is in short supply of many districts due to rising arsenic levels. To ensure a safe water supply, muslim aid is carrying out a complete water and sanitation programme, by digging deeper walls and providing sanitation facilities for almost 10, 000 people.
Muslims Aid’s £250,000 programme to abolish poverty, is working to tackle the root causes of poverty in the community by providing training and interest-free loans to unemployed people to start their own scale business. By doing this, they can become self-sufficient and active contributing members of the community.
Philippines – Food and medicines for refugees
Muslim Aid’s partner organisation Islamic Daw’ah council of the Philippines has been working to provide relief to evacuees that are running away from the persecution of the governmental armed forces.
Thousands of Muslim civilians, women, children, and the elderly were forced to escape form their homes overnight. More than 150,000 people have been banished and been made to stay in public places in Muslim areas under enemy control. They have been suffering from not enough food, water, and sanitation. Muslim Aid supplied £65, 000 for emergency relief and medical requirements for the refugees. Food packages were distributed to nearly 20, 000 people.
Palestine – Equipping hospitals to save lives
Muslim Aid
Sonya Shannon Uddin – 10 yamama
R.S Coursework – Muslim Aid
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