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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Sudan Battles Floods
Unrelenting floods hit Sudan hard making hundreds and thousands homeless and at risk of contracting water-borne illnesses.
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Karachi is devastated
We are on the ground in Karachi, ready to provide swift relief to those most affected.
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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
Beirut Blast Pushes Lebanon to the Brink
Lebanon has the highest per capita refugee ratio in the world. These families already struggle for food, as the preceding statistics show. High-nutrition foods, like lentils and labneh (a highly concentrated yogurt), stave off starvation. Vegetable and fruit availability is rare. Meat — at $33 a kilo (2.2 lbs.), up 300% from $11 in October 2019 — a few can purchase by the gram. For most, it is unthinkable.
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Emergency Relief
Karachi Drowns in Record Rains
Torrential monsoon rains have flooded Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, killing tens of people, mostly the elderly and disabled. Some have drowned in their homes, others electrocuted under damaged power lines, and others caught under collapsing infrastructure.
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Sadaqah Jariyah – Water
What is Sadaqah Jariyah?
The Short Answer
Sadaqah Jariyah literally translates from its original Arabic as “flowing,” or “running” (jariyah) “charity” (sadaqah), meaning charity that one gives in life that continues to provide charitable benefit to its designated recipients and, therefore, divine reward to its giver, after its donor passes away from this life.
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Stories From The Zakat Foundation 9 Myths About Muslim Charities
Fear and mistrust surround Muslim charities in American society. This is neither natural nor an accident. In this book are stories from Zakat Foundation of America’s founding director unraveling blatant myths and fallacies about Islam – and charity – from its defining sources, showing us what’s at stake if we continue to let partisans with self-serving agendas trick us into acting on these fears. A critical read for all who work in, donate to, or concern themselves with the giving world.
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In An Instant, Your Life Can Change
As the world faces catastrophes due to climate change, heartbreaking accidents like the recent Beirut explosion, and conflicts, we are reminded that nothing is guaranteed in life. Your life can change in an instant.
Hispanic Heritage Month with Food Relief to Chicago
Zakat Foundation of America is honoring Hispanic Heritage Month with farm-fresh produce and dairy goods giveaway in pandemic relief for Latinx families in and around Chicago.
Will We Abandon Shattered, Starving Yemen to Rampaging COVID-19?
COVID-19 is badly affecting the people of Yemen. Three causes have converged to crush Yemen’s people and allow coronavirus to run incalculably rampant and deadly among them. Learn more and how you can help.
