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Play4Palestine
Fundraising for Ummah Welfare Trust
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Local brothers from East London who have been playing football together for many years have decided to come together and raise much needed emergency funds for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.
insha-Allah, we aim to use our connection (brotherhood) and football to do what we can for the people of Palestine.
The people of Palestine are having to deal with continuous nights of airstrikes due to ongoing killing. Now is the time to help Gaza and its people.
Tensions are high and the people of Palestine are fearing for their lives. Recent air strikes on the Gaza Strip and terrible violence in Jerusalem at Al-Aqsa have left hundreds wounded and nearly 200 lives have already been lost. Palestine and its people are today dependent on outside aid.
Occupation of the land, the barrier constructed along and within the West Bank as well as land, air and sea blockades on Gaza, has strangled Palestine and its people.
Around 4 in 5 Gazans rely on donations for survival. Originally refugees, they are imprisoned behind concrete walls and humiliating military checkpoints. Despite the empty rhetoric, the suffering of the Palestinian people continues.
Ummah Welfare Trust delivers a range projects in Palestine, particularly in the Gaza strip. Orphans and hifdh students are sponsored; food vouchers and water programmes are implemented; and seasonal programmes always take place. Alhamdulillah, the charity’s trauma centre also provides free counseling and support to thousands of children.
The example of the Believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion for one another is like one body; if one limb complains then the whole body responds to it in restlessness and fever.’ [Sahih Muslim]The balance of wealth and justice remains absent in the world today. For at least three quarters of the world’s population, poverty is a fact of life. Hunger, sickness, homelessness and more cast a heavy shadow over their lives as they struggle to survive with little or no support.Ummah Welfare Trust formed as an NGO in 2001 with the goal of challenging this state of affairs. Inspired by the Islamic teachings of empathy and selflessness, the charity would strive to support and uplift the impoverished through the beautiful act of charity.