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Emergency Refugee Crisis Appeal 2015

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Emergency Refugee Crisis Appeal

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East and North Africa is forcing thousands of families to flee from their homes in search of refuge.

In many places, local services are straining to meet the needs of the vulnerable people arriving. Those that cannot be accommodated in the swelling camps sleep on the streets.
For many years Caravan of Mercy has been providing aid to families in Syria, and we now aim to assist the refugees too.

Donate now and together we can make a difference!

£50 will provide a family with much needed supplies of food and clothing.

Support this appeal. Donate your Zakah, Sadaqah and Lillah today.

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Eid Mubarak 2015

From all of us at Caravan of Mercy, we wish you and your loved ones a most blessed and happy Eid Al-Fitr.

We pray to the Almighty Allah that he accepts all our ibaadah and efforts during the holy month and grants us peace, prosperity, progress, and above all, the ability to continue to serve humanity with all the means He has granted to us.
We pray that Allah rewards you for your worship throughout Ramadan.

With your support we were able to help thousands of families around the world.

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Liberia Report Day 6 – 4 July 2015

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Liberia Report Day 6 – 4 July 2015

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Our Amir molana Ebrahim and myself sat down and did all the accounts for all the distribution which took place in Liberia. Meanwhile the volunteers packed the bags and we all made our way to the airport heading for Accra. Caravan of mercy can do a lot of work in Liberia, but we need serious funds to do this work. Once again JazakAllah to all the donors for being a means of making this work possible

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Liberia Report Day 5 – 3 July 2015

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Liberia Report Day 5 – 3 July 2015

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We went to see the Hifz class of IDRA, which is the charity caravan of mercy is working with in Liberia. They have 10 students there at the moment, with caravan looking into helping them increase to approximately 30 students. Meanwhile Molana Ebrahim went to book our tickets for Accra (Ghana) while myself and the two other volunteers were at the Hifz school trying to work out the costings and see how caravan can assist them. Thereafter, we proceeded to the masjid which is being run by IDRA, they are looking to expand the masjid on this large piece of land which has been donated to them. Moreover, they wish to build and Islamic school and a madrasah. Once again they have asked caravan of mercy to help them achieve these two very important projects. Thus is because at present, many Muslims in this area are converting to Christianity, due to the heavy presence of Christian missionaries. Furthermore, almost every 50 yards there is a church, thus it is of utmost importance that we all donate towards this noble cause, which will save the imaan of the Muslims in Liberia. We humbly request the donors in the UK and all over the world to be supportive once again and help us in these projects.

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Liberia Report Day 4 – 2 July 2015

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Liberia Report Day 4 – 2 July 2015

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We slept for an hour and got up for suhoor, prayed fajr and began distributing. We had over 400 Iftar food parcels to distribute in this area. People from Tenne and Bo waterside all arrived after Fajr to collect their food parcels. The list of those receiving parcels was made by the locals and our volunteers, to ensure that the most needy received the food parcels. The parcels had similar contents to the ones distributed in Barnesville. In this area we distributed over 600 food parcels and again it was the first time any UK charity has done a distribution of this kind in this area. The people were very happy to see us and were looking forward to their food parcels. We had people from two areas Tenne and Bo waterside to come to one distribution point. The atmosphere was electric.
Besides distrusting Iftar food parcels, we gathered all the children together and gave out a pack of biscuit to each child. As soon they saw us with the biscuits they all cheered loudly in joy, which was extremely pleasing. We finished distributing all the parcels at about 3pm.

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Liberia Report Day 3 – 1 July 2015

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Liberia Report Day 3 – 1 July 2015

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Couldn’t sleep, as the Mosquitos were having a field day. It rained heavily all night and morning and we wanted to leave early to prepare for a distribution in Tenne, Bo waterside and Lombacor, but due to the roads it was difficult. The area is in Tawor, grand cape mount province, the people of all these 3 areas will be coming to the area off bo waterside and we will distribute to the people there. We went to an Internet cafe to try to do the e visa but the connection was too poor. We made our way to the wholesalers to help load up the truck which was making its way to grand Cape Mount County. We arrived in Bo waterside at approximately 5pm, but the truck was running late. We sat down with the locals and made mashwarah that we should do the distribution after fajr as we had to make the parcels during the night, after taraweeh salah. The truck arrived just before Iftar and after offloading the truck, it was approximately Eisha time. We prayed Eisha and taraweeh salah and then started to pack the parcels and we finished at about 3:00am.

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Liberia Report Day 2 – 30 June 2015

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Liberia Report Day 2 – 30 June 2015

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The food had arrived at the masjid where the distribution was taking place, in Barnesville. Brother Abdul Qadir (the imam of the masjid) had organised a number of volunteers, men and women, to help us pack the Iftar food parcels. The food parcels consisted of; a 25k bag of rice, 2 litres of oil, 2kg of fresh onions, 4kg of sugar, 3kg of corn flour, 3 large tins of mackerel, a 200g bag of salt, 20 sachets of tomato paste and 50 small blocks of Maggi cubes. We finished packing and distributing over 200 Iftar food parcels for this area by zuhr time. Alhamdulillah all went well with many smiling faces. The people could not believe that we came from a different part of the world to distribute the aid ourselves as opposed to giving all the aid to the local imam to distribute, as is normal in this part of the world. This was the first distribution of its kind in this area by any charity from the UK.

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Liberia Report – Day 1

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Liberia Report Day 1 – 29 June 2015

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We have arrived in Liberia at 4:30am. We closed our fast at the baggage collection area with a can of drink and a bottle of water. After having met our hosts at the airport, brother Sulayman and Shaykh Abdul Qadir, we made our way to our accommodation. Looking at the country it seemed like it’s very backwards and poor, which is not surprising having just come out of a 14 year civil war. Maulana Ebrahim, myself, brother Sulayman and shaykh Abdul Qadir sat down and made mashwarah regarding how will we be buy the food and where we will distribute it. Then we left to visit the wholesalers to buy the food items for the parcels. So we purchased the food and it turned out to be more expensive than we expected. In the meantime, the other volunteers, Molana Ilyas and Faizal Dhada sorted out all the clothing donated by the brothers and sisters in the UK. By the time we got back to our temporary home in Barnesville, Monrovia it was time for Iftar. We had frozen food packs from home but it was still frozen, so since time was very short we opened our fast with dates, water, a few packets of crisps and drinks. That was our food for the day. The area we are living in has no restaurants or takeaways, so we’re surviving off the food we had with us. The Mosquitos could smell us a mile away and they were in for a great time.

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I may not have my father, but i have you looking after me for £20 a month

With your Donation an Orphan can start taking steps to transform their life.

Will you help shape a vulnerable child’s life?

Support the Student sponsorship project with your Zakat, Lillah and Sadaqah.

Country Annual Cost Monthly Cost
Gambia School Student £75.00 £6.25
Ghana School Student £300 £25.00
Bangladesh Orphan £240.00 £20.00
West Bengal Hifz Student £180.00 £15.00

We provide an annual update of how your sponsored child is getting along, which includes a report on the child’s progress and pictures.