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The Caravan in Syria

Our volunteers are now in Syria (as of 7th January 2014) preparing to carry out the the food parcel and winter blanket distribution.
….‘with people surviving on a meal a day, if they’re lucky. Some of the places we went to had meat for the first time in over three months. Now let’s try reflecting this onto ourselves. We complain even when we have three meals every day. It’s our duty to help our Muslim brothers and sisters as soon as possible.”

….“The worst feeling is when, after so much distribution, the food would run out, yet people would still be queuing up waiting, almost begging for a bit of food so that they can feed their families.”
“After going on my first ever trip in 2006, my eyes opened up to on how lucky we really are.
Straight after my first trip, I made a firm intention to do as much as I can to help people all around the world Insha’Allah (God willing).”

Extracted from the official caravan of Mercy Blog
To view the whole article, please click here.

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Weddings

Thanks to your donations we are able to find poor girls who are looking for a husband. Their family find them a similar man and we give them clothing for the Nikah (wedding) as well as essentials to help start a home such as pots and pans, bedding, a bucket, suitcase, footwear etc.

The young couple are also given tools to help them earn a living. The young men are given either a cycle rickshaw to be used as a taxi or cycle rickshaw designed to carry goods. Or they could be given a boat to start them earning a livelihood. The girls may be given a sewing machine with training on the basics of tailoring. Without the training, they may give up and sell the sewing machine.

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Gambia Hifz Class

Caravan Of Mercy has established a Hafiz Sponsorship in Kuntaur, Gambia to help orphans and destitute children. The sponsored children will be provided with food, clothing and medicine. We will even update you on how your child is progressing, so help a child today to become a Hafiz.

Each donation per child is £25 a month.

Please contact us to make a donation or use the donate page to a donation for £300 (1 years payment).

Hifz class of Gambian orphans 2013
Kuntaur makhtab

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Molana Ebrahim returns from Gambia

The Chairman of Caravan Of Mercy spent two weeks travelling through Gambia. He started at our Gambia Head-Quarters in Brikama. From there he went by road to over-see the Caravan Of Mercy Madressah school in a village in Medina Manneh. From there hed visited another Caravan Of Mercy Madressah school in Kuntaur. Alhamdulillah, the madressah there (established through your donations) has now this week just started 56 boys on Hifz ul Quran. 26 of these boys are orphans.

Maulana returned back to Leicester on Tuesday 11th December. InshaAllah a report of his visit will come soon.

His route was 160 miles. Click here to see route on map.

Madina Manneh primary school and madressa teaches 300 apprx  boys and girls. Building was completed in 2008.

The van was donated in 2009 from the UK and sent to Gambia filled with computers. Alhamdulillah it is still being used in the Gambia today.

 

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Bangladesh – West Bengal SSP January/ February 2013.

Inshallah, Molana Ebrahim, another brother from Sajid Chaus of Leicester and 2 more volunteers from London, Asif Sheikh (Standford Hill) & Yusuf Mangera (Clapton)  are due to travel to Bangladesh and India this month (25th January 2013) for 9 days.

The main objective of this trip is to commence the SSPs (Self Sustaining progects) in and around our bases which are Sunamganj, Sirajganj and Kurigram (Bangladesh). And in and around our base, Lalpur, Mathurapur, in West Bengal, India. The four man party is due to land in Dhaka on the 24th January 2013. From there they should travel north to Sunamganj via Sylet.

26th-27th January: SSPs. Sunamganj (Bangladesh)
28th January:  Dhaka (Bangladesh)
29th-30th January: SSPs. Kurigram (Bangladesh)
30th-1st Jan/ Feb: Sirajganj (Bangladesh)
2nd-4th February: SSPs. North 24 Parganas District, near Kolkata, West Bengal (India)
4th February: Delhi (India)

The last destination of the tour will be Delhi to organise the shipment of Qurans and other literature for Caravan Of Mercy to be sent to West Africa.

Sunamganj, Bangladesh, is close to the Indian border (Meghalaya state). The villages are very poor, backward and remote with abject poverty. This will be the fouth year that Caravan Of Mercy has been conducting SSPs (Self Supporting Projects) in this area.

Past intiates include;
The intallation of water pumps,
The buiding, maintenance of the Hazrat Abu Bakr Orphanage (which at present homes 175 ophans and has 5 Maktabs (schools))
Ramadhan food distribution.
Winter blankets distribution.

*  Any-one wishing to donate to any of these projects can do so now can do so now on-line HERE or by visiting our office in Leicester or by making a card payment by phoning 01162763344

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Molana Ebrahim in Gambia November/ December

The Chairman of Caravan Of Mercy travelled through Gambia for two weeks in Novemver/ December 2012. He started at our Gambia Head-Quarters in Brikama. From there he travelled by road to over-see the Caravan Of Mercy Madressah school in a village in Medina Manneh. From there he  visited another Caravan Of Mercy Madressah school in Kuntaur.

His route was 160m miles. Click here to see route on map.

Madina Manneh primary school and madressa teaches 300 apprx  boys and girls. Building was completed in 2008.

The van was donated in 2009 from the UK and sent to Gambia filled with computers. Alhamdulillah it is still being used in the Gambia today.

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India Appeal

Current and ongoing Projects:

– Ramadhan Food distribution.

– Water Well Projects.

– Orphans & Widow sponsor

– Medical Aid.

– Self Supporting Project (SSP).

– Shelter Project.

– Weddings.

– Clothing and bedding distribution.

– Homes for orphans and poor chidlren.

– Maktab sponsor.

– Qurbani, Aqeeqah, Sadqah (sacrifice) Project.

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Ghana Appeal

Quran Project for Ghana:

We have printed 20,000 Qurans for Ghana. ‘Interpretation of the meanings of the Noble Quran’ 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 explainations from Sahih Al Bukhari. The front and back covers are being printed now in India and almost ready for dispatch.

Each book cost £3.00 (cost covers transport, printing and distribution). Inshallah this consignment will be delivered to Tema, Accra (location of our Ghana office) in February 2013 and from there the Qurans will be delivered to different locations throughout Ghana.

The cost of this project have been met but we still need funds for future Quran distribution.

As part of this consignment, we plan to include Islamic Dawah literature as well as French tranlated Qurans for neighbouring countries. After visiting Ghana recently, Maulana Ebrahim saw first hand how much the locals are crying out for knowledge. Please donate English books and literature for dawah. Please donate lillah by phoning CoM on 0116 276 3344 or use this website to make a donation using your bank/ credit card.

We need donations now for the added literature.

PLEASE DONATE NOW.

Images feature the building plans for the ‘Aisha Siddiqqa (RA) Islamic Girls Academy’ for Ghanaian orphan girls. Please donate to this project.