The Zakat Foundation of America

For generations the Navajo Nation, along with practically all of the surviving Native American tribes, have been remanded to secluded areas on reservation land where their grandfathers’ grandfathers were displaced by European settlers.

Zakat Foundation sees these people as no different from other refugees in the world; their plight is largely overlooked and often neglected. While the Navajo Nation is the most developed and well-established of all existing tribal nations in the US, 56% of the Navajo people live in poverty (according to the US Dept. Indian Affairs).

In 2002 The Zakat Foundation rushed to the dire need of food supplies and our December distribution helped over 200 families with immediate food aid. Our continued efforts provided for 500 additional families and distributed winter clothing and blankets. The Navajo were in such desperate need that families came from as far as 90 miles away from the distribution site to receive some help.