Our Work
Zakat Foundation of America embodies the inclusive beauty of Islam through programs that reach the destitute of all faiths both at home and abroad.
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Help families in refugee camps keep safely warm from the bitter chill of the season.
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Your ZAKAT is powerful. We use it as a vehicle for social change.
Our life’s work has been to channel the spirit of zakat into a global vision for giving. Rest assured that our resources are here to help you give your zakat where it can have the most impact.
Water
An ever-flowing charity, Sadaqah Jariyah provides clean water so communities can thrive.
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Providing access to education & creating powerful antidotes to unrest, distrust, & war.
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Additional opportunities to provide more aid throughout the world.
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Emergency Relief
It’s Cold in the Camps
The young girl moves slowly ahead through the camp, bent forward, bobbing, torn sweater pulled over tattered shirt and worn pants. But even coats and layered clothing can’t stop its relentless chill. Give the gift of steady warmth this winter to a Syrian refugee family today. Protect exposed women, children, and the elderly from deathly cold and sickness.
Give Warmth to Families
Orphan Care
In An Instant, You Can Lose A Parent
Did you know that every day, 10,000 children become orphaned? A child can lose a parent in an instant from war, natural disaster, or calamity. With our Orphan Care Program, we provide orphaned children with hope, love and prospects for the future.
Donate to Orphan Care
Emergency Relief
In An Instant, Your Home Can Vanish
The uncertainty and anguish that comes from losing a home due to climate disaster or violent conflict is immeasurable. This is the terrifying reality for so many. With our Emergency Relief Program, we take your gifts of compassion and turn them into immediate relief in the form of emergency housing, protective shelter, food, and more.
Give to Emergency Relief
Sadaqah Jariyah – Water
In An Instant, You Can Lose Clean Water
Imagine not having access to clean, safe water. Did you know that 200 million hours are spent collecting clean water by those without access to clean, safe water? With our Water Program, we dig and install hand pumps and wells that provide a source of safe, clean water to communities worldwide.
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What Are the Types of Zakat You Can Pay?
There are two types of Zakat that Muslims are obligated to pay: Zakat Al-Mal, or Zakat on Wealth, and Zakat Al-Fitr, the Zakat of Fast-Breaking, for the completion of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Zakat Foundation’s Halil and Donna Demir Win ARISE Chicago Award
ARISE Chicago, a workers and faith-community alliance for workplace justice, honored Zakat Foundation of America’s Executive Director Halil Demir and its Health Advisor Donna Demir, RN, with its highest annual honor, the 2020 Arise Chicago Faithful Leadership Award.
It’s Cold in the Camps
Give the gift of steady warmth this winter to a Syrian refugee family today. Protect exposed women, children, and the elderly from deathly cold and sickness.
