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that “We put faith in action” in the work of IR. Saleem Khalid, Domestic Program Manager, spoke about various domestic programs the IR is heading. One of those programs is called “Day of Dignity” which is held in 19 different cities in the US. IR also supports health clinics one or two days a week in addition to Umma Clinic which serves 5 days a week in California. “We don’t do Dawa –religious promotionin exchange for our health services” he said. “Muslim community is a wealthy community” he added. Regarding refugees program Saleem said “There is a disconnect between refugees and our organizations”. “Some refugee families have resolved to prostitution for survival” he added. He then elaborated on IR’s refugee work by adding “We are the main sponsor for Alwaleed refugee camp in Syria, we send money to ACCESS California, and partner with State of Illinois” When Br. Abed was asked what are the expectations from the local community he said “Open the Masjids” to IR
Phoenix, Arizona - On May 3rd Islamic Relief (IR) of USA invited a number of local Muslim leaders to dinner to update and report them on IR’s work and to discuss with them future partnership. The meeting was held at local restaurant Fatoush in the Phoenix area and attended by over twenty local leaders. CEO Abed Ayoub and local IR Representative Imam Omar Shahin as well as a number of IR executives joined the meeting to address IR to local Muslim leaders. Br. Ayoub started by featuring a number of IR’s projects that are helping Muslims worldwide as well as nationally and locally. Some of these projects include Feed the Children campaign, National Aid, Gaza relief, Interfaith work, providing medicine programs as well as collaboration with other non-Muslim charities to send aid to places like Haiti, Katrina victims, Samoa, and other devastated regions. “Our core value is from out faith” Mr. Abed emphasized to the audience and assured them
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work. “Please make our work easier to do our job and we will in return will give you back”. He added that IR wants to “Form partnership with other Muslim organizations and communicate with national organizations”. When Br. Saleem was asked about community division he replied that we need to have a “Collective interest to work together” and “It’s a tremendous mistake to do the same things yet think that things will change”. “One of our core values is to stay neutral, and we work with everybody” Br. Abed, IR CEO said. “We practice women empowerment” Abed added. “If we work together in any project we will have success” Imam Omar Shain said when asked about local collaboration. Later, all members of IR took questions from local leaders about IR’s work and type of support IR can provide. Most members of the local leaders left with positive feelings about the meeting and the hope this will open doors of collaborative work among each other and IR as well.
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