The Lady Fâtemah (a.s.) Charitable Trust
September Lodge, Village Way, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9PU
Newsletter June 2009
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Bismillahi rahmaani raheem
Dear readers, Assalamun Alaykum and welcome to this month’s newsletter. As always we thank you for your on going generosity, which allows us to continue our work. As our Holy Prophet (pbuh) has said about this holy month;
“Rajab is a great month of Allah, unmatched by any other in the respect and significance accorded to it. Verily, Rajab is Allah’s month, Sha’aban my month and Ramadan the month of my Ummah”.
Ramadhan Iftaar Relief:
With Ramadan just around the corner, The Trust has been approached to assist with iftaar relief in Afghanistan, Gaza, Iran, food baskets in Iraq and Lebanon, and Tanzania. Please help us assist with this project, the reward of giving a fasting person iftaar, only the Almighty knows. Read More
Palestine:
The Trust recently sent US$ 10,500 to the Atfaluna Institute, to assist the families of the deaf students affected by the war on Gaza. Clothes and hearing aids batteries were distributed to 27 families. One of the mothers wrote back and said “thank you Atfaluna, and thank you Lady Fatemah for sharing our sadness, planting hope in our hearts and making us know that those who cry, can smile too”. Thankyou to all our donors for making this possible. Read More
Lebanon:
A 25year old young lady has been assisted this month to purchase a lap top, which is essential for her to work as a graphic designer. In July 2006, following the Israeli attack on Lebanon, her home was destroyed killing her mother, father and elder brother. She was left all alone, with her younger brother to look after. With this lap top, she can work from a home as a free lance graphic designer, as well as looking after her younger brother who has been severely traumatised by the attack. Read More
Iraq:
LFT in conjunction with IRAC supports 740 orphans in Karbala, Al Kut, Baghdad and Basra, as well as 150 orphans is Najaf. These orphans are from the poorest strata of society, and the sponsorship not only provides for their educational needs, but also assists with the costs if they fall ill. One of IRAC’s representative recently found one young orphan too sick to get up from her thin mattress, but the family could not afford to take her to the doctor. Thanks to your support, the orphan sponsorship money was used to take her to the hospital so she could be treated. Read More
Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq School for Orphans is a primary school, teaching grades 1 to 6 for 200 orphaned children. The school is in need of a health room where wounds can be dressed, basic routine checks like taking a child’s temperature and blood pressure can be performed and children who feel unwell can rest until they can be taken home. The health room will provide the school’s medical team with the means to monitor the health and development of the school’s students and initiate early intervention where necessary. The total cost of this project is £652.97, please give generously. Read More
Iran:
154 patients including six new born babies were treated during the month of May on the medical referral program. One case treated was a seven-year-old boy from Iraq, who fell and a thin iron bar perforated his right eye. When he came to Iran, he had no vision in his eye.
Thanks to your generosity, he was able to have a vitrectomy and silicon injection, a complicated and high-risk procedure, which will allow his vision will to be restored gradually.
This young boy is just one of thousands of Iraqi patients who suffer from curable conditions that cannot be treated in Iraq due to a lack of specialists and facilities. Many of these patients hopefully turn towards Iran’s more developed medical facilities, only to find out that they cannot pay the cost of treatment. Your donations, dear LFT donors, help these patients to obtain the treatment they need and regain their health. Please, continue to donate generously.
Afghanistan:
There are 480 widowed and orphaned families, and 110 disabled families, desperately in need of help in the districts of Guzara and Injill, Herat. Currently, the families cover their daily rations and needs by sewing clothes, curtains, shawls and hand embroidery work. However, they do not have enough sewing machines and materials between them. Our aim initially is to donate 10 sewing machines to 10 Widow Families. This will enable 70 women and children to have the potential to earn a reliable income so that their lives are not only immediately improved but also their children can go to school. Read More
Over the last 10 years, the poor families of Baglah and Bariki in Ghazni have seen continued drought and conflict affect their region. Possibly a total of 7,000 families have been affected by a lack of rain and snow fall. Many poor women and children have to travel for up to 4 hours every day to collect water for their daily rations. Thanks to your generosity, two hand water pumps have been installed in Baglah, and five pumps in Bariki. The pumps are operational and in daily use, Alhamdulillah 600 families are enjoying safe clean water for their daily needs. Read More
In association with our partner organisation Afghan Poverty Relief, the Trust would like to bring the gift of education to the very poor children of Herat. The proposal is to support 60 orphans in Gebriael. The school would offer elementary education to these 60 orphans as classified at Classes 1-7 within the Afghani National Curriculum. The orphans would attend school in the morning from 8 am to 1 pm for six days. A one off cost of £1314.88 is initially required to set up this educational facility, together with a cost of £22.80 per month to support each orphan. Currently, these orphans do not receive any kind of formal educational support and so are desperately in need of our support to give them a fighting chance of achieving a successful adult life. Read More
Pakistan:
The Trust, through its’ partner, Pravalli Welfare Trust would like to distribute 2 goats to 12 families in the remote hilly villages of Gohra/Nawara, in North West Frontier Province in Northern Pakistan. The original set of goats will begin a chain of income generation opportunities for other widows and poor families in that the kids born will be given to another family to provide income and food. Any kids born from this second generation will be given to another family and so on. Once the chain is established it will indeed impact the lives of many families and therefore the community will also benefit from better produce and income.
Each set of 2 milk giving goats will cost 13,000 Rupees and so the total cost of providing 12 sets is 156,000 Rupees. Read More
A microfinance case has been sponsored this month allowing a family of 5 earn their income with dignity. The father is a car mechanic, but had not been able to secure reliable employment and so has had to rely on working odd days here and there. This meant that sometimes he had no work and could not support his family. The Trust provided the funds for him to start his own car repairing business, so that he can earn a regular income for himself, and also provide 2 other men with jobs and therefore 2 more families would benefit from this microfinance initiative. Read More
Following the embargo by the Taliban, the local population in Parachinar have been cut off from the rest of the country. All incoming roads have been blocked and occupied by the Taliban, and people buying from or selling to Shias are declared as "infidels" deserving death. The prices of all commodities have inflated three fold. There is no electricity for months now and in addition no medical facilities. Instead of sending money, the plan is to provide a permanent source of income to families, by way of milking cows. These people are very well experienced in rearing calves and take care of cattle. With the provision of milk producing animals, these people can now fulfil their needs, as well as generate an income from the surplus produce. Read More
In association with our partners in Pakistan, 120 cataract surgeries were carried out free of charge.
India:
St. Paul’s School in Mysore, India was founded in 1980 with the aim of offering an affordable education to students coming from poor families. St. Paul School’s curriculum includes Kannada (the local language), Hindi and English as well as mathematics, sciences and social studies. The basic annual fee is 100 GBP. Additional expenses include the school uniform, books and the cost of the service bus for those children living too far away to walk to school. A full annual scholarship covering all expenses except stationery costs between 115 and 164 GBP depending on the age of the child. St. Paul’s School is applying for full scholarships for 70 of its most impoverished students. Of the 70 applicants 41 are boys and 29 are girls. Please help give these children a future to look forward to. Read More
We have received an appeal from a 22year old young man in Lucknow suffering from renal failure. He is having regular dialysis, and is in need of a kidney transplant. His mother’s kidney matches, and a further $8,500 is required to fund the treatment. $8,500 has already been raised locally. Please give generously and help save this young man’s life.
Tanzania:
The venue of June 2009’s cataract camp was Kondoa, Dodoma Region, a small dusty town about seven hours drive from Arusha, the base camp. 60 further cataract surgeries were carried out, bringing the total funded by LFT to 490. Dear LFT donors: $ 60 (30 GBP) gives a poor person the gift of sight. Patients not only are able to see again, more important, they are no longer a burden on their families. The need for cataract surgery remains great in rural African communities where people work out of doors and are frequently afflicted with cataracts due to constant exposure to sunlight. Most people survive at subsistence level and the cost of cataract surgery is way beyond their means. Please, donate generously so that LFT will be able to hold more eye camps in the future. Read More
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Thank you, as always for all your generosity and support, without which our work would not be possible.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Shabir R Jagani - Deputy Chairman
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