Ramadan Food Project for Needy Families

Campaign objective

We need your support to provide Iftar food to 300 families and 10 mosques in the Bugisu Region of Uganda during Ramadan.

 Namakwekwe Muslim Development Organisation, is planning to distribute food packages to 300 families and 10 mosques in the Districts of Bugisu Region in Uganda during Ramadan. You may donate any amount and indicate the type of gifts you wish us to deliver to needy families. 

Your donation will help to provide food to the most impoverished and less fortunate families in the rural areas of Eastern Uganda. We will also provide Iftar dinners to ten mosques in rural areas to enable travelers, widowers and other needy Muslims to break their fast.  We plan to purchase food items like rice, posho flour, cooking oil, sugar, dates and beans. Each food package will include the following items:

Rice = 10 kg, posho =10 kg, dates = 1 kg, sugar = 5 kg, cooking oil = 5 liters.

Safwan ibn Salim related that the Prophet said: “Anyone who looks after and works for a widow and a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah’s cause, or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all night.”_ (Bukhari)

Namakwekwe Muslim Development Organisation team and volunteers will establish a central cookery at the Masjid; thereafter, food will be prepared and served to fasting brothers and sisters at Iftar time.

Ramadan

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims around the world. It is the month when the Quran was revealed to the prophet (Peace Be Upon Him), hence fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. It was made obligatory upon every mature Muslim, male and female. Muslims across the globe cerebrate Ramadan by fasting, reciting Quran, giving donations and purifying themselves from all sins by seeking forgiveness and mercy from Allah. 

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Many Muslims in rural areas practice fasting during Ramadan, but they face a lot of challenges because they lack what to eat to break their fast. Some of them look for wild fruits like raw mangoes and any other wild game, which are not healthy for a person who has spent a full day without eating anything. Others end up losing faith and hope, and failing to observe fasting due to financial constraints. It is worse for orphan families as they are more likely to lack basic necessities to enable them observe the obligatory fasting.

Therefore, this project intends to focus on families like orphans, widows, widowers and poor households. These families will be provided food packages that will sustain them for the whole month.

We need your donations to enable us to reach out to these selected families with food packages. Alhamdulillah, Jazakh' Allah khyran to whomever shall donate to our project.