Nearly five in every thousand babies born in Britain will not live to their fifth birthday, and experts say inequality is to blame. The death of a child is always a tragedy. The avoidable deaths of thousands of children under five years old every year in the UK is a scandal, according to the Royal…
The Global Donors Forum is the bi annual convening of the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists (WCMP). Our National Manager, Iqbal Nasim, was invited to attend the convention on Wednesday 16th April 2014, in Washington DC, as a guest speaker. This is an event where donors, government, business leaders, experts and visionaries from across the…
A food bank charity says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. The Trussell Trust said a third were given to repeat visitors but that there was a “shocking” 51% rise in clients to established food banks. It said benefit payment delays were the main…
Abdur-Rahman came to the UK from Pakistan in 2010 with the intention of working to support his family back home. Abdur-Rahman thought he had obtained a work visa. He later discovered however, that he had entered the country on a student visa. The travel agent in Pakistan, who had helped Abdur-Rahman to enter the UK,…
Bakhsheesh came to the UK in the Spring of 2009 to work for a short time. He embraced Islam in 2012, Alhamdulillah, but when his non-Muslim family learnt of this, he was promptly kicked out of his family’s flat. The friends Bakhsheesh had made at his local masjid were kind enough to host him at…
The NZF Distribution team recently received the following thank you note from a family who we were able to help thanks to your Zakat payment for distribution in the UK: “Alhamdulillah, ALLAH used you to bring back smiles on innocent kids’ faces. May ALLAH make you smile when you need it the most, as you…