Your Help – From British Columbia to the World Fundraising Initiatives for International Relief Efforts
FOR YEMEN Ride for Yemen
In the height of the pandemic during famine and Yemen’s collapsing health care system, Islamic Relief Canada’s Ride for Yemen event encouraged student and sports associations to fundraise on their LaunchGood pages and take part in a 10 km long scenic biking route around Stanley Park in Vancouver along the Pacific Ocean and the Burrard Inlet.
There were approximately 175 attendees with 7 Muslim Student Associations across British Columbia taking part for a united effort to fundraise for medical supplies and food packs for the people of Yemen, across 19 governates. Ticket sales went directly to the cause as sponsorship covered any event expenses.
Vancouver National Day of Action
Cupcakes for Yemen
In Ramadan, an emergency appeal was launched to provide food packs to some of the most impoverished communities in Yemen. Our National Day of Action campaign spread awareness and fundraised for the depleting circumstances in the region. Food packs contained dates, lentils, rice, sugar, oil, wheat, and canned meat which fed a family of 5-7 people. Supplies were procured locally to support the local economy. Fundraising initiatives were backed by local scholars from Vancouver & Edmonton, and prayer for relief for the people of Yemen was done by Imam Khalid Latif.
In order to raise funds for an isolation center equipped with medicines, medical supplies, and medical equipment, we sold and delivered cupcakes to Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Kelowna, Kamloops, Langley, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver and White Rock. A total of 8 volunteers drove around British Columbia to deliver 75 half dozen cupcake boxes. The funds raised for the isolation center is considered to be the largest one in the area serving both Amanat Al Asimah and Sanaa Governorates, and all severe COVID-19 cases are referred there.
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