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April 3rd, 2014

South Shore Residents Have Insurance Thanks to Zakat Foundation of AmericaCCC Event

South Shore residents got last-minute help signing up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act on Sunday, March 30.

March 17th, 2014

Combating Human Trafficking Through Education at Home and Abroad

But AbdelRahman Murphy addressed the Zakat Foundation of America Teahouse with an attitude that said we are not powerless before this evil.

March 17th, 2014

Young Ghanaians Beat U.S. Peers in Friendly Virtual Spelling Bee

Students at a Muslim school in Ghana and an Islamic Sunday School in Chicago found that in March, the Ghanaian students beat their U.S. peers in a video conference spelling bee.

March 13th, 2014

Medical Aid to Somali Clinic Saves Lives of Mothers and Children

From December, 2013, to February, 2014, the Dr. Hawa Abdi General Hospital in Afgooye, Somalia, treated 1,515 patients, the huge majority of whom were women and children

March 6th, 2014

COO Safaa Zarzour visits Palestine and Jordan

Zakat Foundation of America Chief Operating Officer Safaa Zarzour traveled to Palestine and Jordan in February to assess Zakat Foundation of America sponsored programs.

February 28th, 2014

North Sumatran Villagers Roll Up Sleeves to Clean Volcanic Ash

Villagers in the North Sumatran region surrounding Mt. Sinabung, which erupted in early February, are returning home to face the task of cleaning inches-deep deposits of ash off their roads, gardens and homes.

February 28th, 2014

Top 10 Things You Need to Know About the Conflict in Central African Republic

Read about the 10 things to know about the conflict in the Central African Republic.

February 15th, 2014

Even the Poor Can Give: Lessons from MLK Day of Service at Zakat Foundation of AmericaCCC

On a frigid Martin Luther King Day those who helped Zakat Foundation of America Community Center Chicago (Zakat Foundation of AmericaCCC) give coats to shelters got a different kind of gift for themselves.

February 15th, 2014

Mobile Health Clinics Ease Kenyan Health Crisis

In the last week of January the doctor’s union in Kenya raised the alarm that doctors had received unexpected pay cuts as the country’s public health system goes through a massive upheaval.

February 15th, 2014

Zakat Foundation of America Distributed Winter Kits

Zakat Foundation of America distributed 1,200 winter kits to the elderly needy, both men and women, in Dharwad and Belgaum City on Feb. 2 and 3, 2014.

February 8th, 2014

Homeless and Volunteers Warmed By Athens, GA, Food Distribution

When Chama Ibrahim decided to drive from Delaware to Athens, GA, to serve a hot meal to the homeless, she did not expect that she would learn so much from it

February 2nd, 2014

Zakat Foundation of America and Amnesty International Shine a Light on Syrian Crisis

As Ameenah Sawwan, a 23-year-old student from Moadamiyah, Damascus, spoke to the capacity crowd at the Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, her voice shook slightly and her words felt like wounds being opened again.
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