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Response to Humanitarian Crisis

Pakistan faces a complex humanitarian crisis from floods, climate shocks, food insecurity, and ongoing Afghan returns. The 2022 floods affected millions, while 2025 localized floods and border hardships intensified the need for shelter, food, and protection. Zakat Foundation of America responds holistically, delivering food security through meals, food packages, meat, and rice; providing emergency relief, including winter kits; supporting infrastructure and development like low-income housing, mosques, and orphanages; nurturing orphans; and revitalizing communities with water and sanitation projects. These efforts restore dignity, stability, and hope for millions during ongoing crises.

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Our Impact in Pakistan

(2022-2026)

Our Work in Pakistan

Building Masjid Rahma in Pakistan I Sadaqah Jariyah 2026

Emergency Aid for Monsoon Survivors

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Our 10+ Years in Pakistan


Serving Communities Across Pakistan

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Education

We bring out-of-school children back to the classroom, starting with rural Sindh, where dropout rates are highest, especially for girls. We remove the barriers that keep children out, including: 

  • Enrollment and re-enrollment: helping children who dropped out or never attended school return to class  

  • Learning essentials: school uniforms and supplies so every child can start ready to learn 

  • Family and community engagement: working with parents, teachers, and local education officials to keep children in school 

Putting a child back in school is a step towards a brighter future. 

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Emergency Relief

When disaster strikes, we move quickly to reach families with what they need most. We have responded to annual monsoon landslides and flooding, church fires, and harsh winter emergencies, providing: 

  • Immediate relief: food packages, clothing, and medical care 

  • Safe shelter: tents, and one-to-two-bedroom housing for families who lost their homes 

  • Path to recovery: support transitioning into homes of their own 

Providing relief brings hope and security to families facing tremendous losses.  

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Food Security

Hunger is a daily reality for 11 million people facing acute food insecurity. We respond with food that reaches families facing poverty, to displaced communities, and disaster survivors, including: 

  • Meals and food packages: nourishment for families who have run out of options 

  • Meat packages: fresh meat for families who rarely have it 

  • Rice bags: a staple that stretches across many meals 

No family should choose between food and everything else. 

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Health and Wellness

Our medical services reach underserved and rural communities across Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and Azad Jammu & Kashmir. We respond quickly and tailor support to each person’s situation including: 

  • Medical care: treatment, eye surgeries, and emergency health grants 

  • Disability support: standard and electric wheelchairs that restore mobility and independence 

Access to medical care is a foundation for a healthier, more stable life. 

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Orphan Care

Every child deserves to grow up knowing they are loved and never alone. We stand beside children who have lost one or both parents, as well as the single mothers fighting to keep their families whole. Through sponsorship, each child receives: 

  • Food and health care: nourishment and treatment to grow strong 

  • Education: a classroom, a future, and the chance to dream bigger 

  • Safe shelter and celebrations: a secure home and moments of joy 

A child who loses a parent has not lost their future. With your support, they gain a family. 

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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

We bring clean, safe water to rural communities, especially drought-affected areas and those recovering from disasters. The impact goes beyond water: 

  • Hand pumps and wells: reliable access to clean water close to home 

  • Hygiene and health: protection from waterborne diseases for families and children 

  • Time and opportunity: hours returned to women and girls who once spent them fetching water 

Where clean water flows, communities thrive. 

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Livelihoods

We help women and youth build skills, confidence, and lasting income by pairing practical training with the tools to put it to work, including: 

  • Digital entrepreneurship: training and a one-year online store for women-led businesses 

  • Skills and tools: sewing training and a sewing machine to launch tailoring work 

  • Rural agriculture: kitchen gardening and high-value crop training for women in Chakwal 

  • Career readiness: resume and interview workshops for university students 

These skills create independence and a more secure future. 

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Seasonal Islamic Giving

We deliver food packages, hot meals, and nutritious meat to families in poverty, displaced communities, and disaster survivors when they need it most. Throughout the year, we provide: 

  • Ramadan food packages and warm iftar meals: nourishment for fasting families 

  • Udhiyah meat packages: fresh meat shared with those who cannot afford it 

  • Year-round giving: Aqiqah for newborns, Fidyah for those unable to fast, and Kaffarah for atonement 

Every gift is a step toward comfort, dignity, and hope for families in need. 

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Infrastructure Development

We build the foundations that families and communities depend on, from places of worship and care for children to safe homes for flood survivors. Our work includes: 

  • Mosques: built to serve local communities as places of education and worship 

  • Orphan care: a new orphanage, alongside ongoing support for thousands of orphaned children 

  • Low-income housing: homes for families displaced by flooding 

We create stability and a sense of belonging from one person to entire communities.  


Stories of Change

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Mr. Ilyas Ahmad struggles to provide for his family of eight in remote Azad Kashmir on a modest income. Harsh winters made daily survival especially difficult, leaving his children vulnerable to freezing temperatures. Zakat Foundation of America’s winter relief, warm bedding, and essentials brought comfort, protection, and renewed hope when his family needed it most. 

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Zainab Mai, a widow caring for her daughters and grandchildren, faced Ramadan with constant worry over food. With no steady income, her family often ate once daily. Zakat Foundation of America’s Ramadan Food Pack lifted that burden, providing nourishment, peace of mind, and the ability to focus on prayer throughout the blessed month.


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Water

A Sadaqah Jariyah that provides clean water to communities.

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Emergency Relief

Help victims of disaster & violent conflict recover and heal. Give $100 for Emergency Relief.

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Health & Wellbeing

Leading critical projects to heal bodies, minds, & souls.

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Education

Providing access to education & creating powerful antidotes to unrest, distrust, & war.

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Food Security

Delivering urgent food in Ramadan & year round to relieve starvation. Give $50 for Food Security.

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Sadaqah Jariyah

When you give Sadaqah Jariyah, you are providing a lifeline that keeps on giving.

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Seasonal Islamic Giving

Additional opportunities to provide more aid throughout the world.

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Orphan Care

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