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Food Distributed to the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Food Distributed to the Syrian Refugees in Turkey Ramadhan 2014

 

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Volunteers visit Syrian refugees living in very difficult conditions.
Alhamdolillah with your donations we were able to help many families in similar conditions.

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Masjid Abrar Update (Ghana):

‘Alhamdulillah, Masjid Abrar is the only masjid in the area where Jumu’ah Salaat is offered. Also it is the only Islamic information centre of its kind in the region if not the country where there is an after school and weekend madrassah, Islamic library etc.
At the moment there is construction going on to extend the building as we have more students on our waiting list who don’t have a place due to insufficient classrooms and on Friday the place is not big enough to contain the people that turn up for Jumu’ah Salaah.
The Islamic information centre is also actively involved in the efforts of Dawah, distribution of Quraan, Islamic literature books /leaflets etc. and other Islamic activities that will benefit the Ummah. After the construction the Masjid will be able to take about 500 or more people and there will be a Hifz class. InshAllah

This was an update from brother Ibrahim in our Caravan of Mercy office in Ghana regarding our project there.

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Quran and Dawah project

There is a great demand for Qurans for Muslims in the West African countries. The non-Muslims in Ghana put a lot of time and effort in spreading their beliefs. Caravan Of Mercy has therefore decided to act. We have printed a number of Islamic Dawah literature as well as French translated Qurans for neighbouring West African countries.  Hopefully, this initiative will help combat the falsehoods which the Muslims of Ghana are facing, inshaAllah.

We accept donations for our Print & Distribute Qur’an project.

In 2013 we printed 20,000 Qurans for West Africa. We acquired permission to print the popular translation; ‘Interpretation of the meanings of the Noble Quran’ which contain both Arabic as well as English text. The translation is by Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al Hilali and Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan. It features explanations from Sahih Al Bukhari.

The public are encouraged to donate the costs for these printed Qur’ans for those Muslims who can not afford this religious necessity. To the donor, each book costs £3.00 (a cost which will cover transport, printing and distribution).

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Serrekundading, Gambia; washed out

Al Hamdulillah, Caravan of Mercy has a number of humanitarian and charitable projects in different parts of the Gambia. Such projects include child and adult education, food, clothing and Quran distribution and building projects.

Serrekundading is a village located east of Brikama next to Kembujae. Caravan of Mercy has been supporting the Serrekundading public through it’s Madressah since it was established six years ago. Sadly this Madressah has since collapsed.

The Madressah once housed 200 students from Serrekundading and surrounding villages and was the only one of it’s kind in the area.
The Madressah was made up of two classrooms, one office and a store-room, all financed and constructed by the locals with mud bricks. The roofing and doors were provided by Caravan of Mercy. The ages of the children taught there ranged from 7 to 15 years. They were tutored by 4 teachers who taught them Quran and Islamic subjects as well as English language, mathematics, science and social and environmental studies.

During the annual rain season in 2013, the region experienced such torrential rain falls that utterly destroyed the Madressah.

The locals are now desperate to have a new stronger building erected to fulfill their basic religious needs. A building that can withstand both the heat and heavy down-pours of rain.

The proposed Madressah building is estimated to cost £15,000.

Caravan of Mercy are therefore seeking donations in order to help the Gambians in Serrekundading.

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Syria Aid program update

The Caravan of Mercy volunteers are all now safely back from Syria after distributing aid in the form of blankets and food etc. Because of the fighting close to the refugee camp in Atimeh where Caravan of Mercy are usually based, the volunteers were able to help the poor and needy living in extremely poor conditions on the border in Turkey.

Caravan of Mercy volunteers have been working in Syria at the Atimah (Atmeh) Olive Tree refugee. Their humanitarian efforts have been greatly reduced due to the recent fighting there. It was reported (20th January 2014) that the Babul Hawa border crossing between Turkey and Syria has been attacked. This border crossing has been essential for Caravan of Mercy’s aid program. Just 5 miles away is the refugee camp.

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Aisha Siddiqqah (RA) Islamic Girls Academy

Aisha Siddiqqa (RA) Girls Academy (ASIGA)

Ghana, famous for great minerals that lie beneath this West African country, a population which once consisted of 45% Muslims is now more like a 30% minority. So where did the Muslims go?

The simple answer is nowhere, the people remained but sadly they fell out of the fold Islam.

In 2009, Caravan of Mercy carried out a Ramadhan food distribution in Ghana. Whilst visiting the regions, the delegates were made aware of the situation of the Muslims but without a foundation established in Ghana, it was very difficult to address the very worrying situation of the Muslims of Ghana.

In 2010, a Ghanaian brother, Mahama Ibrahim, more famously known as Ibrahim Ghana, then a trustee of Caravan of Mercy, made the brave decision of moving back to the country of his birth with his wife and three young children, Ridwan, Muhammed Iqbal and Manala, after some twenty years of living in the UK. Naturally, when the news of brother Ibrahim`s decision to return to Ghana permanently came, an opportunity arose, a way of hope, the very foundation Caravan of Mercy had been waiting for.

Planning began on how to start working in Ghana. Firstly, with food distribution to the poor and needy and then the distribution of Qurans and Islamic literature. This identified the lack of Islamic knowledge amongst the Muslims, especially the sisters.

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The current situation in Ghana is as such that the students attend government  schools, where other  religious  ideologies,  beliefs and practice are enforced upon the pupils, or they attend private schools, again set up by missionaries or other religious denominations.

An intention and a worry from brother Ibrahim and the Trustees of Caravan of Mercy UK, led to the decision of establishing an all girls school, an academy dedicated to the teaching of excellent Islamic education and high level secular education for the sisters of the Ummah.

In 2011, land was purchased in the Tema area of Accra, Ghana, plans were drawn and foundations laid jointly by Molana Ebrahim:  Chairman of Caravan of Mercy, Br Ibrahim Ghana and Br Zahid,  the generous donor of the Academy. In early 2012, work began on the construction of the Academy, and   even prior to its completion, the Muslims of Ghana were waiting, eagerly anticipating the opening of the all girl’s School.

Today in late 2013, Alhamdulillah, phase one of the project is complete, and now we have the school open and running, the first of its kind and the only Islamic Girls School in the whole of Ghana and Western Africa.

Plans for expansion in early 2014, with the start of phase two, include the construction of boarding facilities and maybe more classes inshAllah.

Here lies an opportunity to become part of this unique and noble cause by donating your Lillah, Sadaqah, Zakat and Interest Money towards the Aisha Siddiqqa (RA) Girls Academy, a rare chance to help safe guard the future generations of the Ummah in Ghana.

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Ghana projects

Caravan of Mercy’s brother Munir is leaving for Ghana on the 7th December 2013. There he will oversee the Aisha Saddiqqa Academy (girls boarding school for the orphans and poor) as well as the Masjid Abraar Islamic Information Centre.

Next week the Caravan of Mercy chairman Molana Ebrahim will leave for Ghana to also oversee the projects there. Additionally he will visit neighbouring Liberia to enhance COM charitable activities there. Molana’s wife will accompany him in order give professional guidance to the staff at the girls school. She will implement the Islamic syllabus there.

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