Alongside the 6 years of political unrest, Yemen has been devastated by one of the worst famines in the last 100 years. Furthermore, the corona virus pandemic is killing one in five people. The health facilities have been destroyed, international funds have been cut, leaving the people to survive on next to nothing.

In April 2018 myself and Amer Nazir (who cycled across the world for Mercy Worldwide charity) and 10 others trekked to Everest Base camp with your support.

In November 2018 with your kind donations and support Mercy Worldwide built and opened a bakery in Yemen to provide daily bread to needy people. Currently the bakery is providing for 3005 individuals on a daily basis. 

With your help we would now like to expand the capacity of the bakery to provide for 5,250 individuals per day. Cost £3,500.

Any excess above £3,500 will go to installing 4 water tanks around different camps and distributions points in Yemen to provide clean drinking water. Each tank will provide 3,000 liters of water per day and cost £560 per tank including all the costs.

Mercy Worldwide will be working with the team on the ground in Yemen like previously and oversee the project til the end.

To raise money I pledge from 1 to 31 July 2020 to walk and run 450km which is the equivalent distance from London to Paris.

It is also the distance from Madina (where Prophet Muhammad saww and members of his holy household are buried) to Makkah (where.the holy Kabaa mosque is) completing this challenge on Eid Adha to mark the Hajj celebration on 31 July 2020.

Each day I will tick off a different km to ensure 1-30km is done each day. So far I have done:

1km - fri 3rd july

2km - fri 10th july

3km- mon 6th july

4km - sun 5th july

5km - fri 17th july

6km - sat 18th july

7km - thurs 9th july

8km - wed 8th july

9km - Tues 7th july

10km - thurs 23rd july

11km - wed 15th july

12km - sat 4th july

13km - thurs 16th july

14km - sat 25th july

15km- sat 11th july

16km - fri 24th july

17km - tues 14th july

18km - sun 12th july

19km - mon 20th july

20km - sun 19th july

21km - tues 21 july

22km - Sun 26th july

23km - tues 28th july

24km- wed 22nd july

25km = Thurs 2nd July

26km = mon 13th july

27km - mon 27th july

28km - fri 31st july

29km - wed 29th july

30km - thurs 30th july

Please donate kindly and encourage others.

Any extra money raised above the targets will go towards the running and up keep of the bakery.

As always, Thank You for allowing us to carry out this work on your behalf.

Ali 

on behalf of Mercy Worldwide Trust.

*The boxer Amir Khan meets Amer Nazir at the completion of worldwide cycle- https://youtu.be/IX9LhQx923E

** Amer Nazir documentary on Ahlhlbayt TV - https://youtu.be/SVtGx-8Hfzo