Ramadan Impact Report 2021 | Islamic Relief Canada

Your Ramadan Donations in Action IMPACT REPORT | 2021

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THIS RAMADAN

19+

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452,000+ people

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Who We Are Islamic Relief works in over 40 countries worldwide, providing life-saving humanitarian aid to those in need, and fighting poverty through sustainable development projects.

Inspired by faith, we serve everyone in need regardless of gender, race or religion.

We help impoverished communities access basic services, including education, water, sanitation, and healthcare.

Through livelihood projects, skills development and mentorship, we help communities break the cycle of poverty Our integrated approach to progress helps transform lives worldwide.

Your Impact This Ramadan By the grace of God and your generous donations, Sadaqa and Zakat this Ramadan, we are grateful to share that we are able to reach over 452,000 people through over 19 projects to help bring relief to those most in need.

Although Covid-19 has impacted the way we save lives, you as a community rose to the challenge and created unprecedented change, both here at home and around the world. From delivering thousands of food packs, to empowering families out of poverty and increasing access to Covid-19 vaccines, you made it all possible.

Every donation you made this Ramadan continues to fill someone’s heart with ease and happiness.

Thank you for your continued generosity and care.

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FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS

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Feed the Needy Zakat al-Fitr Fidya and Kaffara With your support, we distributed food packs in impoverished communities to provide relief during the blessed month of Ramadan.

Through this effort we also distributed your Zakat al-Fitr, Fidya and Kaffara payments in the form of food supplies to the poorest of the poor.

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What’s Inside A Food Pack?

Depending on the region, each food pack holds around 65 pounds of food on average and is designed to provide the essentials to a family of 5-7 people for around one month.

Your Donations in Action this Ramadan AFGHANISTAN BANGLADESH

10,500

(ROHINGYA REFUGEES)

12,000

LEBANON

8,000

NEPAL

10,000

NIGER

11,200

PAKISTAN

18,200

PALESTINE (GAZA)

15,600

PHILLIPINES

10,000

SOMALIA

8,000

SUDAN

2,230

SYRIA

12,000

YEMEN

17,500

The food items are purchased through local markets to help the local economy.

While the contents vary according to region, local diet customs, and availability, each food pack usually contains: • DATES • LENTILS • RICE • SUGAR • OIL • WHEAT • CANNED MEAT AND FISH

PEOPLE WERE SUSTAINED THIS RAMADAN BECAUSE OF YOU

65lbs FAMILY OF 5-7

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YOUR ZAKAT

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Our Zakat Distribution Process 1 2 We strive to ensure that your Zakat empowers the individuals and families who receive it, and ultimately contributes to bringing them out of the difficult circumstances they are in.

Through careful assessment, we take special care to reach those who are most at risk. They can receive your Zakat in the form of medicines, education materials, food supplies, nutritional supplements, hygiene kits, water distributions, shelter kits, sustainable income and emergency relief.

Throughout it all, we work to ensure your donations are not just a simple transaction, but rather a means to uplift and transform.

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and assess their situation

We reach people in need everyday

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Through your support, we collect Zakat,

and approve projects to respond to their needs.

and allocate the money to the approved projects

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to reach the needy and bring relief in every way.

And your gift keeps on giving!

Your Zakat in Action this Ramadan

This Ramadan, your Zakat donations went towards meeting the needs of some of the most vulnerable people around the world, preserving their dignity and empowering them to build a better life.

This list of projects is by no means exhaustive, and we look forward to reporting on all the new Zakat projects that your donations have made possible at the end of the year inshaAllah!

ALBANIA AND KOSOVO

AFGHANISTAN Emergency Water, Sanitation and Protection Response in Nangarhar Years of conflict and complex disasters has led to an influx of vulnerable displaced people, both internal and returnees from neighbouring countries.

In order to protect the most vulnerable, women and children, our team is distributing hygiene kits and dignity kits and equipping them with water storage items.

Cash assistance is being provided to gender based violence survivors, to allow them to provide for their basic needs with dignity and feed their families.

Your support has meant we can fund the Zakat-eligible portions of the following new projects, as well as continue funding our many ongoing Zakat projects from 2020.

Sustainable Livelihood through Agriculture

The community will also be supported through the establishment of clean water systems, handwashing points and latrines. This project will increase access to specialized protection support for women and children, and work to respond to and prevent gender based violence through increased awareness and training.

BENEFICIARIES

42,900 individuals

Both countries face rural poverty, high unemployment among women and youth, and lack of livelihood options.

This project tackles these issues with a sustainable approach by providing families with greenhouses, livestock, poultry, and water wells, along with the appropriate training.

Through economic empowerment families can meet immediate food needs and long term dignified earnings.

BENEFICIARIES

1,410 individuals

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BOSNIA

ETHIOPIA

MALI

NIGER

Education Support to Orphans

Emergency Response to Tigray Crisis

Livelihood & Inclusive Protection for Women and Girls

Livelihood & Protection in Tillabery

Providing orphans with education in foreign languages (English and Turkish), math, IT, and Quran, focusing on those in rural areas and people with disabilities. Through making necessary and useful education affordable to orphans, we increase their opportunities for higher education and employment. Similar programming will be offered to single mothers, to increase their opportunities for employment, and aid them in earning a dignified living.

Assisting crisis affected individuals and households in the two targeted locations of the larger Afar region in Ethiopia. This is done by providing wheat flour, pulses, and vegetable oil to sustain them, over a period of months; while also distributing essential items such as bedding sets, kitchen sets, hygiene sets, and protection items.

This project works towards improving life-saving support to these displaced people as well as impacted host communities in these areas.

Empowering women, girls, and persons with disabilities through training on leadership, small business initiatives, and social cohesion. This project is providing small business start-up grants to promote independent and sustainable livelihoods for women, as well as supporting children’s education fees.

It also focuses on setting up structures to increase protection and referral management for gender based violence/abuse and tailored support resources to provide for the needs of survivors of abuse.

With an influx of internally displaced peoples, we aim to strengthen the social cohesion and support of these vulnerable populations.

Increasing access to safe and dignified protection services for women, girls, older people, and people with disabilities. Focusing on long term livelihood opportunities, gender protection awareness sessions, education, water and sanitation, maternal health/nutrition, and legal services. To promote dignified livelihoods, women are included in village savings groups, loan associations, entrepreneurship, small-scale business development, and financial literacy training. This project will provide business start-up grants to these trained women and people with disabilities, as well as the necessary resources for their businesses to succeed.

BENEFICIARIES

BENEFICIARIES

180 individuals

9,696 individuals

BENEFICIARIES

39,550 individuals

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PAKISTAN

TUNISIA

TURKEY

Orphans and Widows Empowerment

Emergency Health and Protection in Idlib and Aleppo

Rural Women Empowerment

Food and Livelihood Support for Vulnerable Uyghur Refugees

We are working towards improving the socio economic conditions of widowed families in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Muzaffarabad, and bring them from poverty to prosperity. This is done through livelihood support, healthcare, psychosocial support, education, and social empowerment.

This project is providing business grants to widows who complete skills training, as well as postsecondary education scholarships to orphans to make it possible for them to continue their education. It also focuses on improving access to healthcare by providing access to free health facilities for these vulnerable families.

In northwest Syria we are providing emergency healthcare support through medicine, supplies, and referral services support.

For women specifically, counselling, breastfeeding awareness, and maternal nutrition are an area of focus as well as milk and formula distribution for infants. Healthcare staff is trained on gender based violence prevention and facilities are being rehabilitated to ensure privacy.

Empowering rural women in Tataouine economically, socially and in terms of health. We support women groups, through providing production tools, training, business support, and creating micro-projects for family income generation.

Health focuses include raising awareness on reproductive health, women’s rights, prevention of gender based violence, and first aid training.

Supporting the Uyghur refugees living in Turkey through food and livelihood support. Families are supported with food vouchers to ensure access to nutrition. Additionally, this project provides vocational training on pastry making. Through these skills, refugees become more self reliant, enhancing access to income generating activities and ensuring a dignified livelihood.

BENEFICIARIES

21,820 individuals

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SYRIA

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94,510 individuals

BENEFICIARIES

1,150 individuals

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870 individuals

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EID GIFT DISTRIBUTION

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Sharing the Joy of Eid with Children in Need

With your support, we provided Eid gifts in the form of new eid clothes and shoes to 1,800 orphans and vulnerable children in Yemen and Myanmar.

Here at home in Canada, we ran our Eid Toy Box campaign across the country, delivering new toys on Eid to over a thousand vulnerable children and youth. This helped spread

the joy of Eid among their families and let them know that someone is thinking about them.

MYANMAR BENEFICIARIES

1,000 children

YEMEN BENEFICIARIES

800 children

CANADA BENEFICIARIES

1,188 children

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GLOBAL EMERGENCIES

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Reaching Those Most in Need COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH Emergency Response to Rohingya Refugee Camp Fires Responded to the massive fire that broke out damaging four camps in the Balukhali Refugee Camp that houses thousands of Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Provided immediate emergency support to those affected by the camp fires through shelter, water and sanitation, and protection.

Constructed permanent shelters, bamboo bridges, and repaired 3 roads to aid the refugees and host communities.

in this devastating crisis, child friendly spaces were developed to ensure their safety and well being.

Constructed 152 transitional shelters for refugees, and 13 permanent shelters for the most vulnerable host community families.

Permanent shelters will be a long term support for the host communities, ensuring protection for women and adolescent girls who are most at risk.

BENEFICIARIES

To maintain their dignity and restore sanitary solutions, hygiene kits were distributed, drainage systems were repaired and community sanitary latrines were constructed.

Recognizing children as the most vulnerable group

3,200 individuals

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INDIA Emergency Support for Covid-19 Crisis

In support of our partner organizations, Islamic Relief is increasing access to life-saving oxygen by procuring and installing oxygen generation plants in hospitals to treat severe and critical Covid-19 cases; providing rapid, accurate testing machines in some of the hardest hit districts; and supporting the ongoing distribution of Covid-19 vaccines.

An oxygen generation plant can provide enough oxygen for a 500 bed hospital and will continue to be used beyond Covid-19 with a lifespan of 20 years.

The testing machines will support an increase in testing capacity and can last up to 10 years, providing support beyond the pandemic. We are

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working with local partners across India to speed up identification and treatment of cases and support critical health systems and capacity through this brutal second wave.

Additional Covid-19 relief supplies provided include ventilators, oxygen concentrators, an ambulance, food packages, and medical kits. These are distributed in communities at high risk due to lockdowns and curfews which has made life saving resources and assistance inaccessible.

Food packages can aid a family of 4 with enough meals for over a month, and include staples for the local diet.

Medical kits are provided to individuals with mild symptoms of Covid-19, which aid in battling the virus by boosting their immune system. These resources are focused on daily wage earners and school teachers who are most affected.

Distribution is done across the country through open community areas such as schools, orphanages, and madrasas.

BENEFICIARIES

20,000 individuals

PALESTINE

SOMALIA

Emergency Food & Medical Support

Islamic Relief is helping to provide immediate medical assistance and vital aid to all those affected by the violence and most in need. We are distributing food packs to over 2,000 families who have been displaced. Medical support is being provided in the form of medicine, disposable items and lab kits to 7 health facilities and hospitals.

YEMEN AND PALESTINE

Emergency Oxygen Supply Increasing Accessibility to Covid-19 Vaccines Additionally with your generous support we have been able to support urgent medical care to those injured in the violence. Your donations went towards necessary essential drugs, medical disposables, disaster response bags and CPR kits to ensure the needed capacity for emergency response during this heightened violence imposed on Palestinians.

BENEFICIARIES

28,927 individuals

In response to Covid-19, we are minimizing shortages of critical life-saving oxygen items that will also aid critically ill patients.

Our team is installing two oxygen plants, and oxygen cylinders in hospitals, that were carefully selected through discussions with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. Additionally our team is training the local critical care staff and medical engineers to ensure longevity of the oxygen plants, and the wellbeing of patients.

BENEFICIARIES

18,000 individuals

In support of UNICEF, Islamic Relief Canada is delivering Covid-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries. This project aims to end the pandemic everywhere, quickly and equitably, one vaccine at a time.

Through the world COVAX initiative, countries and organizations are pooling global resources to ensure vaccines are distributed to the most vulnerable countries equitably. Beyond supporting vaccine rollout, this will be contributing to risk communication and community engagement, as well as supporting the operational deployment of the Covid-19 vaccines in humanitarian settings.

BENEFICIARIES

20,000 individuals

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IN YOUR COMMUNITY

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From Coast to Coast

CUPCAKES FOR SYRIA This Ramadan we made a national impact with our popular cupcakes campaign! Across 40 cities in Canada we delivered 1174 boxes of cupcakes, and over 7,044 cupcakes in total! Thank you for your sweet tooth, as your generosity touches the lives of countless families in need across Syria.

Islamic Relief Canada participated in the National Day of Action by providing warm meals to the homeless, seniors, and low income families across Canada. With the help of 78 volunteers, and 27 partner organizations and restaurants, we were able to distribute meals across 7 provinces and 21 cities!

$32,625

3,200

TOTAL FUNDS RAISED FOR SYRIA

TOTAL MEALS DISTRIBUTED

326 FAMILIES SUPPORTED IN SYRIA

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DRIVE-THRU IFTAARS From Surrey to Calgary to Ottawa, you joined us to help raise additional funds for Ramadan Food Baskets, Orphans, Gaza, Yemen, and Syria - among many others.

We hosted 22 Drive-Thru Iftaars across Canada, in 19 different cities. We appreciate seeing your community come together for a good cause, in a safe and Covid friendly environment!

Total Raised Per Cause Orphan Sponsorship & Care

Ramadan Food Baskets

252 orphans

152 families

Food Packs for Yemen

Palestine

438 families

2,582 individuals

5,784 BENEFICIARIES

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CROWDFUNDING We called on our community and you truly answered the call!

You brought together your networks to raise $1,381,450!

We had a total of 14 community pages, where supporters could make individual sub-campaigns for the overarching cause.

In total, we were blown away by the 194 individual campaigns that were launched. Here is a snapshot of 5 community pages who came together to make a difference!

Kids Fight Famine

Be a Changemaker

Emergency Relief

This Ramadan, kids and youth across Canada came together to raise funds and awareness for the famine in Yemen. Never underestimate the abilities of a child, because we had 19 campaigns launched that raised over $50,500!

The smallest actions you take towards helping others have the power to make a big difference and create a better world. Our community of changemakers proved this through 7 different campaigns this Ramadan!

$50,532 raised

$3907 raised

30 campaigns came together for those most in need during times of hardship. With your support, our emergency relief provides immediate aid to crises around the world. This year we saw fires burn down refugee camps, a horrific second wave of Covid-19 in India and brutal violence in Palestine.

$257,845 raised Water for Yemen

Poverty to Prosperity

7 community influencers with a passion for giving back came together to help rehabilitate 3 water systems in Yemen for sustainable change! These water systems will be a source of clean water for years to come.

5 campaigns were launched in support of Islamic Relief’s Orphans and Widows in Pakistan Empowerment project in Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Muzaffarabad. Through enabling and empowering the most vulnerable, we will make transformational changes!

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194 CROWDFUNDING PAGES

$1,381,450 TOTAL RAISED

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Thank You! Your donations are not just another transaction. They reach those in need in the form of medicines, education, food, water, shelter, and so much more. Your support is so often the gift of life itself and we take special care to reach those who are most at risk. We’ve seen with our own eyes how their lives have been uplifted and transformed by what you give.

We could not have done it without you, thank you.

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