Zakat Foundation of America issued its annual report for the year 2017 on its activities, effectiveness, revenues and expenditures, and it states: Thanks to donors, the American Zakat Foundation was able in the year 2017 to help millions of poor and needy people in more than 43 countries around the world in Bangladesh and India, and refugees in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and widows and orphans. Trapped in Gaza and Mauritania, and affected by storms in Houston and Puerto Rico.
The report pointed out that Zakat provided food during Ramadan for millions of fasting and needy people from the hungry, sick, wounded, homeless, widows and orphans as a result of drought or war in Yemen, as well as sacrifice for millions of poor people in Somalia, Cambodia, the Middle East, Asia, and aid to the Rohingya Muslim who were subjected to genocide. Water wells were dug in Asia and tried to alleviate the suffering of the Horn of Africa. Zakat efforts were not limited to providing in-kind aid only, but also helped take care of mental health in civilized America and aid persecuted girls in Kenya.
According to the 27-page report that was published on its website, the aid and activities were as follows:
Middle East region
To whom
The American Zakat Foundation prepared and distributed enough foodstuffs to feed 3000 Yemeni families, in partnership with Mercy Corps, it helped 1,305 Yemeni sesame farmers, which increased their yields by 25 percent and increased cooking oil production to ensure food security in the future and benefit victims. Hunger in Yemen, where more than 17 million Yemenis are threatened with starvation as a result of the war.
The statement referred to sending zakat winter clothes to 5,000 victims of the earthquake that struck the Iraqi-Iranian border in 2017 and claimed more than 530 lives, and accelerated aid to 575 families from Sri Lanka and Nepal after millions were affected by floods and landslides.
Jordan
The statement said that its vocational training center in Irbid had enrolled 397 women, most of them Syrian refugees, and participated in 17 majors to increase income, ranging from soap production to the English language, and 245 women graduated from sewing and knitting courses and ICDL (computer skills certificate), and web design Internet, handicrafts and fashion.
Rebuilding Gaza
He added that Zakat cooperated with UNRWA in 2017 to rebuild 64 family homes in Gaza providing housing for 364 people whose homes were bombed in 2014. It had completed 20 additional homes by January 31. That's 147 homes since 2016.
Sudan
The statement indicated that it launched a new maternity care program in Sudan's maternity hospital, which aims to reduce infant mortality, and free health care and medical services were provided to 47 women before and after childbirth ... in 2017.
Turkey
Muhammad Ali Building
Established by the American Zakat Foundation in the city of Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey, on the Syrian-Turkish border, the Muhammad Ali building, called the (Safe House), consists of 40 rooms hosting 44 families, equivalent to 200 people, each refugee family has its own apartment, and $ 50 monthly salary For every child.
Education and knowledge
Zahra University has six colleges: Economics, Computer Engineering, Education, English Language, Arabic Language, and Islamic Studies, located in Gaziantep, Turkey. It provides education to Syrian refugees in the Arabic language and helps Syrians who have been forced to stop education because of the war, as they can restore their educational attainment from During it, and obtaining certificates to ensure the future of the Syrian people
Syrian refugee schools
The Zakat Foundation provides support to five schools for Syrians.
Three in Syria to educate internally displaced people, and two in Turkey are registering refugee children and youth. It pays the salaries of 115 teachers and administrators and provides textbooks and uniforms for its 2,000 students.
Orphans
Zakat sponsors 879 orphans in Iraq, Jordan, Palestine and Syria, orphans from Syrian refugees in Turkey, and thousands of children at risk.
