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Charity of the year

cOnTEnTsAssalamu Alaikum

The 12 months ending March 2016 have

proved to be another challenging and

momentous year for Islamic Help. Your

support, sacrifices and generosity allowed us

to improve the quality of life for nearly 1.3

million people in Asia, Africa, Europe and the

Middle East.

It ranged from delivering emergency aid to those

affected by natural disasters, like the Nepal

and South Asia earthquakes, to delivering the

essentials of life to the refugees of Syria and the

persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar (Burma).

Our long term programmes continued to help

communities combat poverty and deprivation, and we

launched one of our most ambitious and rewarding

programmes - Umrah for Orphans. With your backing,

650 Palestinian refugee orphans from Jordan were able

to go on the most blessed journey of their young lives.

The efforts of our staff, volunteers, supporters and donors

received recognition when we were handed the British

Muslim Awards accolade of Charity of the Year 2016.

To all of you who made this possible, our heartfelt and

sincere thanks and prayers. Long may you continue

supporting us in improving the lives of people in need

across the world.

Islamic Help

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Our Jordan team is the centre of our Middle

East operations. Over the last few years, it has

helped hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees

in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey; organised

our Umrah for Orphans journey for Palestinian

refugee orphans (see pages 24-27) and provided

aid and support to thousands of local beneficiaries.

syRian &

PalEsTinian REfugEEs

In March 2016, we

organised - via

our partner White

Hands - the delivery

of emergency food

packs and infant

milk for 100 starving

children and their

families in the

besieged Syrian town

of Madaya.

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During the last year, they helped an estimated 80,000 Syrian

refugees with:

2 major distributions of clothing at camps

for the equivalent of 48,000 people

Qurbani meat for 6,575 and canned meat for

2,000 beneficiaries at Irbid refugee camp

Winter clothes, shoes and blankets to 5,000

refugees in camps and from poor families

Further clothing distributions for another 3,000

families (15,000 individuals) in Ma’an

Ramadan food packs for 1,750 people in camps at

Irbid and Badia, plus another with the Jordanian

Red Crescent for 500 at Badia camps.

A clinic and medical facilities resulting from

our Birth campaign to help Syrian refugee

mothers and their babies is due to be fully

operational by mid-2016.

As well as Syrian refugees, there was help

for the people of Gaza. In collaboration

with the Jordan Hashemite charity, an

ambulance was equipped and sent to

Palestine as well as canned meat supplies.

A partnership with the Jordanian

Hashemite Fund for Human

Development (JOHUD) involved

distributing clothes and shoes

to more than 3,000 families

(15,000) people in need.

Islamic Help also financed several

medical treatments and operations

for poor people who could not afford

them, including a Syrian refugee girl

whose face was burned in the conflict.

Additionally, emergency medical kits

were distributed in partnership with

the Jordanian Red Crescent for 2,500

people near the Syria-Jordan border

area, and surgical kits and equipment

provided to hospitals in Ma’an.

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Our Jordan team cares for nearly 800 Palestinian orphans as part of our orphans and childcare programme.

As well as the Umrah for Orphans programme, it has provided aid and support to meet individual needs - this has included repairing an orphan family’s home to providing a new wheelchair for a disabled orphan.

We have also supported 20 disabled and poor students at universities by paying their fees, and paid for 5 students from Palestinian refugee camps to complete their studies and graduate, thereby increasing their employment prospects.

Increasing employment prospects has also been the principle for taking part in a programme with the Jordan Tourism Board and The Hashemite University. It aims to tackle unemployment by helping educate 600 students about boosting tourism and how they can be part of that market.

Other activities by the IH Jordan office have ranged from providing emergency food aid to 500 people affected by floods in Al Goor to helping adults with access to English and IT courses.

Children and young people - including Syrian and Palestinian

refugees, orphans and locals - have been the focal point of many of the

programmes. We have provided:

school bags and stationery to 1,340 refugee and poor students

a collective breakfast for 40 children at the alamal kindergarten

for syrian refugees in ma’an

Two iftar dinners for 100 orphans and their mothers in irbid

a supplementary school in kurayyimah in north Jordan for 100 Palestinian

refugees (girls) to memorise the qur’an, and a ceremony with gifts and prizes

for 300 qur’an hafiz in al shajarah.

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As well as Syria, civil conflict continues to

devastate neighbouring Iraq.

The United Nations estimated that nearly

19,000 people had been killed in a 21-month

period since the start of 2014, and more than

3.2 million were displaced during that time.

In early 2016, a new refugee camp was set up

at Kirkuk. With our partners, Islamic Help was

among the first to provide food supplies to

desperate civilians at the camp.

Food packs were distributed to

500 families – 3,500 beneficiaries.

Each pack was designed to

last a family for several weeks

and contained essential foods

including rice, flour, sugar, beans,

tinned meat, oil, dates and dry

milk among other provisions.

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A generation of children

in Iraq have lost their

parents to violence or

have been struck by

disabilities or crippling

illnesses. A lack of social

and medical facilities has

made their struggle for

survival even harder.

it’s estimated that 100 children in

iraq are orphaned every day

figures on the number of orphans

in iraq range from just under

1 million to 4.5 million

In 2016, Islamic Help launched a major

programme to sponsor 500 orphans and

support 200 disabled children who would

otherwise have nowhere to turn to.

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children around the world.

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During the last year we continued

providing immediate aid and

implemented or consolidated long term

programmes following the 2014 conflict

which devastated Gaza.

These initiatives helped nearly 450,000

Palestinians in Gaza.

gaza

Our supporters showed even greater

generosity by going on to raise another

£300,000 for a new desalination

plant at Al Shifa Hospital. It is due to

go online in 2016 and provide clean

and safe water for drinking, medical

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Winter relief aid including blankets,

mattresses and rechargeable lights to 625

families (approx. 3,000 individuals) including

155 blind and visually impaired people.

The delivery of medicines and medical

supplies to the Al Karama and Dar Essalam

charitable hospitals to help 6,000 patients

A speech therapy unit at the Al Basma

Society to help 180 children with cerebral

palsy who have speech difficulties

As part of our Gaza 100 Challenge,

our generous donors raised

£100,000 for a new water plant to

replace a facility destroyed in the

2014 conflict. In June 2015 that

new plant became operational

and serves 9,000 people in the

community of Wadi Al Salqa with

their daily domestic water needs.

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We were involved in the rebuilding and re-fitting of facilities, including

administration and laboratories, for the benefit of IUG’s 20,000

students and 100 staff

We covered fees for 36 needy students at IUG for at least one semester, and provided iftar meals during Ramadan for 5,200 students and their families

We distributed Qurbani meat at the time of Eid ul Adha to a further 250

households – at least 1,000 individuals.

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Our supporters continued to help us support 530 orphans and 30 teachers at the Dar Al Fadelah Private School for Orphans in the Gaza Strip. It included the provision of free education and care, food and health services.

We also set up two computer labs at the school to improve the quality of education provided to the orphans, all from poor and needy families.

Another aspect of our orphan and childcare programme was the sponsorship and support of 84 orphans. Many, aged 2 to 10 years, have lost their fathers in the Gaza conflicts or their parents due to disease and illness.

Our work in Gaza during and after the 2014 conflict in which our donors provided aid for 1 million Palestinians was recognised in November 2015 with a special award from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

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As well as Myanmar, Islamic Help

provided aid and support for 1,700

refugees at the Bayeun refugee camp in

Aceh Timur, Indonesia. It included:

A communal kitchen at the camp, which

is run by UNHCR - the United Nations

High Commissioner for Refugees – and

served hot food and fresh fruit juices

Milk and nutritional support for

70 infants and toddlers identified

with signs of malnutrition

20 medical professionals with volunteers

provided medical care and free first aid

500 medical tests were carried out to

diagnose serious illnesses and conditions

like diabetes and kidney problems

200 refugees at risk of these serious

conditions were provided with free medicines

374 children without parents were given

counselling and trauma support

Eid gifts in the form of clothing

for women and children

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With the generous support of our donors in the UK and

Australia, our teams provided food aid to 5,000 people in

rakhine State in Myanmar and rohingya refugee camps in

Asia.

It included ramadan distributions in Myanmar for 365 families

in Da Paing Camp in the Sittwe region of rakhine State, and

110 widows and their families in ohndaw Gyi village.

our programmes in Myanmar benefited at least

3,300 individuals.

In 2015 we launched an emergency appeal for one of the

world’s most persecuted and oppressed minorities, the

rohingya Muslims of Myanmar (burma).

The rohingya, estimated to be about 1.5 million, are

denied citizenship, confined to camps and barred from

accessing crucial services like medical aid and free

movement. Many have undertaken hazardous sea

journeys to flee as refugees to other countries.

We have also launched

programmes for water, shelter

and school buildings for

Rohingya communities.

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BangladEsh

As well as teaching the art and discipline of cricket, the youngsters receive non-formal education giving them the basis to build future careers and improve their lives.

Education is also at the forefront of our orphan and childcare programme. 80 orphans in the programme receive regular education, while 90 needy students were the beneficiaries of a schools book distribution programme.

The provision of food and water has helped tens of thousands of beneficiaries, including Rohingya refugees from Myanmar (Burma).

In the last (calendar) year, the installation of 1,308 hand pumps and

102 wells has provided quick, safe and clean water for 61,056 individuals.

Ramadan food packs and iftars were organised by our Bangladesh team for 2,700 beneficiaries, while

Qurbani meat was distributed to nearly 35,000 of the most vulnerable

and poorest people along with Eid gifts for 150 children.

Our Cricket Academy for Street and Underprivileged Children was set up in 2011 and continues to grow from strength to strength. Based in Saidpur in Nilfamy District, it uses sport and education to transform the lives of youngsters with limited opportunities.

Several of the 50 children (including orphans), who might otherwise have fallen into a life of crime, are now playing in professional cricket leagues while Mohammad Imran has played for the Bangladesh National Disabled Cricket Team.

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The importance of providing and

improving access to education for girls

was demonstrated with a range of

projects. They ranged from installing

water and sanitation facilities to computer

and science labs, at 17 schools for the

benefit of 3,005 female pupils.

The schools are in District Gujranwala,

Hafizabad, lahore, jhelum, Toba Tek

Singh, Khushab, Dera Ismail Khan and

Mirpur Aj&K. The works included:

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In District Jhang, still reeling from

the devastating floods of 2014,

200 hygiene kits were provided to

10 primary schools and awareness

campaigns held for 1,035 students.

As part of this project, 200 hand

pumps were also installed to provide

clean and safe drinking water for 1,675

people in villages and schools.

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Two new classrooms

Six fully equipped computer labs and a science lab

Installation or/and renovation of toilet, sanitation

and ablution facilities, plus five new washrooms

Water coolers and purification units at 2 schools

7 nursery equipment kits including LCDs

and DVD players as audio visual aids

Provision of school furniture including for

pre-schooling (early learners) classes

Schools were also at the

forefront of short and long

term programmes to help

restore normality for survivors

of natural disasters.

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Emergency food aid was distributed to hundreds of people in the wake of the October 2015

South Asia earthquake. Later, a month-long relief programme saw the distribution of emergency

winter aid with our partners to approx. 800 people from the most vulnerable households

in District Shangla in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

- In District Jhang, a recovery response programme including provision of livelihoods and

employment helped 3,304 people whose lives were affected by the devastating 2014 floods.

Ramadan and Qurbani programmes targeted the most vulnerable and poorest, including

the disabled and orphan families, by providing food and meat to more than 3,100

families (approx. 22,000 beneficiaries).

Survivors of acid attacks have to live with the physical and psychological damage inflicted by this most horrific of crimes. Many find it difficult to re-integrate into society.

Our livelihood restoration programme has helped 4 of these survivors in Multan set up their own businesses, so they can move towards self-sufficiency, provide for their families and be active members of their communities.

The business ventures were identified in keeping with the talents, abilities and aptitude of the beneficiaries. Grants in kind were given to help set up 3 grocery shops and 1 mobile clothes shop for the survivors.

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As part of our work with The Mountain Trust, we started reconstruction of Jiven Joyti School, in the Gorkha district, which was destroyed in the quake. The school serves the predominantly Chepang community and had 72 pupils.

Due to open in the summer of 2016, the school - with four new classrooms - was rebuilt using the Adobe method which has been proven to be twice as resistant to earthquakes as traditional construction methods.

Local residents were engaged in the project and as part of our work in the Gorkha district, a housing construction programme was launched for 57 families (approx. 300 people) along with local distributions of winter clothing and blankets.

nEPal

At least 100 families (approx. 550 people) who had lost their homes in the quake were provided materials ranging from corrugated metal and concrete to toilet pans and gas pipes for the construction of semi-permanent homes.

On 25 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. At least

8,000 people were killed and 8 million – nearly a third of Nepal’s

population – was affected.

As part of a coalition of charities, we provided essential supplies including

emergency food packs and shelter kits to more than 8,000 beneficiaries.

Working in partnership with The Mountain Trust, a UK-based NGO with

field officers on the ground in Nepal, we also provided emergency food parcels

and shelter/NFI (non-food items) to 142 families (nearly 800 individuals).

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We care for more than 2,000 children, including

the disabled, across the world as part of our

orphan and childcare programme but hundreds

more desperately need our help. From just £1 a

day, our orphan sponsorship provides them with

a secure and stable upbringing, ensuring they

receive food, water, education and healthcare.

from only £1 a day

Be One with the Orphan

sponsor an orphan today

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As part of providing psycho-social

support, in 2016 we embarked on

Umrah for Orphans by taking 650

Palestinian orphans from Jordan

on Umrah. With the help of our

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As well as orphans, we have special

provisions to help disabled children

in the Middle East whose needs

are even more specialised.

Caring for an orphan is not just

about meeting their physical needs

- food, water, medicines, shelter

- but also providing psycho-social

support ranging from education and

welfare to spiritual guidance.sponsor an Orphan

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UMRAH FOR ORPHANSAs well as performing Umrah at Islam’s holiest site, the Masjid Al Haram in Makkah, the youngsters had the blessed opportunity to pray in the beautiful Masjid ul Nabawi in Madinah shareef on the area known as Riyadh ul Jannah - which extends from the Rawda, or tomb of the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wassalam) to his pulpit and is regarded as part of Jannah (Heaven).

They were accompanied by 137 guardians, including widowed mothers, plus Islamic Help staff and volunteers from the UK and Jordan.A convoy of 18 coaches ferried the boys and

girls from the Jordanian capital Amman to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah shareef.

The orphans made multiple Umrahs for their family members and their late fathers.

They also made duas (prayers) for the donors who so kindly sponsored them.

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i feel that umrah has helped me overcome my sadness. i prayed for my father, for mercy and forgiveness, and allah has given me patience. i don’t feel lonely as there are lots of orphans like me, they are like brothers here and that makes me strong.

Ahmed

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The third eco home at our Children’s

Eco Village near Dar es Salaam was

completed thanks to the sponsorship of

the Parker family from Australia, who

also sponsored a bee-keeping livelihood

project in Pangani to benefit 100 women.

Tanzania

Another major donor of the mosques

programme has been the Burque

East Africa company which also

supported us with the distribution

of three small trucks of baby and

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With the support of Lancashire Group, the

4th eco home is under construction. It is the

third house being sponsored through the

generosity of the UK-based insurance group.

Each home houses 10 orphans and their

guardian/carer. The pioneering Eco

Village, a model of sustainability and

green energy with a permaculture farm,

Eco Mosque and community facilities,

is planned to house 160 orphans and

vulnerable children when complete.

A major construction programme

will see 42 mosques for the benefit of

nearly 30,000 Muslims in 34 villages

in the districts of Pangani, Muheza

and Handeni in the Tanga region.

As well as medium and small mosques,

2 large mosques have been funded by

Muslim donors in Panama. These will

be capable of regularly holding 500

worshippers and 1,500 at Friday prayers.

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The generosity of our donors allows us to continue delivering a core aspect of

our programmes - the provision of water hand pumps and wells in areas of need.

In the Pangani and Muheza districts, three villages and three schools are benefiting from

the installation of water wells made possible through donors like Nabil Alhaj and Mohammad

Derrar, from Panama.

The projects will provide clean and safe drinking water for:

2,280 students and teachers at Kilimangwido, Kigombe and Funguni

Schools

Three villages with a total population of 5,460

Another six wells also funded by Panama donors will benefit a further

3,000 people in Pangani district

Hundreds of families headed by women in numerous villages across Pangani have been helped out of poverty through livelihood programmes and income-generation opportunities.

Donors from Panama helped provide 600 families with: 400 bee-keeping sets, 600 goats, 100 dairy cows and 100 solar panels, the latter to mostly disabled beneficiaries.

A £40,000 grant from the Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission (GOAC) provided long term opportunities for 300 women households in seven villages by:

Training on livestock and beekeeping management

Distribution of 300 goats

1,200 chickens for poultry farming

200 bee-keepings sets

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In total, 2,400 of the poorest and most vulnerable people in Tanzania have benefited directly and indirectly from these livelihood projects.(see also pages 44-45 livelihoods)

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With the protracted ethnic and religious conflict in the Central African Republic showing no signs of abating, Islamic Help is running two major facilities to help refugees and the displaced.

Together, the two projects help support more than 3,000 victims of the CAR conflict - the refugee camp at Garoua Boulai in Cameroon houses 1,450 individuals and the IDP camp at Yelwa, CAR, cares for 1,700 individuals.

Each camp features 200 semi-permanent wooden shelters; a health centre; a school; a mosque; solar power for electricity; toilets and showers

Every family has received monthly food packs throughout the year

Fresh and cooked meat has also been provided to 11,000 people at and around the camps as part of Qurbani, Aqiqa, Sadaqah lillah and Walima programmes.

BOsniaAs well as economic struggles, many Muslims in Bosnia still face religious, social and national discrimination. To alleviate some of those burdens, we worked with partners to benefit the most vulnerable sections of society.

Provided daily meals for 73 people, including children and the elderly,

for three months at the free public restaurant “Život” in BosnaskaDubica.

This donation also ensured the restaurant, a crucial facility for the poor

and disadvantaged, survived closure

During Ramadan we delivered food packages to last the month to more

than 500 beneficiaries and held large and small iftars for 570 beneficiaries

Distributed Qurbani meat to more than 1,200 beneficiaries

Set up livelihood opportunities in the form of raspberry growing ventures for 5 families (20 beneficiaries) who had no

source of income, and the first beekeeping/apiary project for a family-of-six

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yEmEnHealth and hygiene to prevent and combat disease and illness was at the forefront of our programme partnership with the United Nations.

An agreement with UNICEF to deliver a £550,000 WASH emergency response programme including household water filters, hygiene kits and promotional campaigns to more than 20,000 families (approx. 140,000 individuals)

Further aid to another 12,000 families (84,000 people) in Amran governate in partnership with UNOCHA (the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs). This included fuel to local water corporations; providing public water tanks; ceramic water filters for domestic use and hygiene kits.

With Yemen torn apart by civil strife, the need for humanitarian aid has

never been more acute. During the course of the year, Islamic Help and

its partners delivered emergency programmes to benefit more than

350,000 people in the war-torn nation.

It included a £1.5 million partnership programme with the United Nations

for emergency food distributions and WASH (Water, Sanitation

and Hygiene) programmes.

£1 million partnership with the UN’s World Food Programme to benefit

more than 18,000 families (nearly 128,000 individuals) in three of the

most conflict-affected governorates, Al Jawf, Amran, and Taiz

A further 38,000 vulnerable people in and around the capital Sana’a received food parcels, designed to last a family

for a month, as part of Islamic Help’s work with the Islamic Development Bank.

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Ramadan quRBaniThe needs of impoverished or struggling

communities is especially highlighted during Ramadan, with our supporters

helping provide essential food packs to tens of thousands of people in need.

The packs are designed to last families for the entire month. They consist of

essential items in line with international nutritional standards. As well as food

packs, collective iftars are held, bringing together communities to share in the

blessings of this special month and Eid gifts are distributed to children.

For many beneficiaries, Qurbani is one of the few times of year – sometimes the only occasion - when they can supplement their diet with meat. In 2015, we provided fresh meat for nearly 170,000 people across the world.

Bangladesh 34,920 beneficiaries including Rohingya refugees

Pakistan 20,230 of the most vulnerable and poor

Jordan 6,575 Syrian refugees at the Irbid camp, Al Mafraq

Somalia 6,000 internally displaced people and children at risk of malnourishment

Bosnia 1,200 people in Derventa who still face religious and national discrimination

Other countries where we distributed Qurbani meat included Myanmar (Burma), Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gaza and India.

2015 RAMAdAn bEnEficiARiEsFood Packs & IFtars

BanGLaDESh 900 1,800

BoSnIa 500 570

BURma 3,300

RohInGYa (IndonesIa) 1,700

CEntRaL aFRICan REPUBLIC 1,700

CamERoon 1,450

JoRDan (syrIan refugees) 2,250 400PaKIStan 1,925

tanZanIa 1,000

TOTAL 17, 495

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missiOn POssiBlEit was genuinely the hardest thing i have ever done in my entire life. i had to tell her that she cannot provide more for her family, that her life is going to stay hard, that her children are going to go without and that little bit of hope i gave her was now taken away.

Ian Yunus Daley

By expanding the crop field it has given the pupils a future. They now have food to eat and can concentrate on their education instead of worrying about when their next

meal will be and if they will eat or not.

Khaleda Shummi

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The people i met, the ones i got to know and love as my own, will forever stay with me. it didn’t take them long to find a place in my heart, i will always remember them. i told myself, this was not the end, only the beginning of my journey.

Zaynab Chhitra

Mission Possible is our flagship volunteering programme, the humanitarian experience of a lifetime. Volunteers fundraise for the

cost of their deployment and the aid they deliver but also meet the beneficiaries

face-to-face and, using needs criteria, make decisions on how to allocate the aid.

The 10-day deployment in 2015 to Meka and Mwembeni villages in Pangani district

distributed aid to benefit more than 2,050 villagers and 480 students.

Provided three milk cows and 60 goats, plus three shops for livelihoods

to poor and disabled people

supplied and installed three rainwater harvesting systems, in

two schools and a dispensary

carried out renovations and construction of toilets at mwembeni school

supplied stationery to pupils and raised environmental awareness by planting 400

trees and a kitchen garden at the school

Three solar panels were installed at the school along with environmental awareness training

distributed more than 350 mosquito nets to help combat malaria

Mission Possible has changed not only the lives of the beneficiaries but the volunteers on deployment as many recorded on their blogs for our website.

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VOlunTEERsThroughout the year, our volunteers sacrifice

their time and effort to help improve lives around the world. They devote their energy to raise funds for our programmes and help others.

Our volunteers have undertaken activities ranging from helping Syrian refugees at Lesvos and

Calais to meeting their own personal challenges, ranging from bungee jumps to skydives or

bootcamps to scaling the heights of Snowdonia.

Volunteers are the heartbeat of Islamic Help. To all of them, we say many, many thanks..

One Islamic Help volunteer who touched so many lives was Muhammad Junaid Arif, affectionately known as Jedy. Sadly, he lost his life in a motorway car crash in January 2016.

Jedy had raised £11,100 for Islamic Help’s water projects around the world following the death of his friend Nabeel Hussain, enough to benefit up to 2,000 people in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Islamic Help donated a water hand pump in Bangladesh in honour of Junaid’s efforts and many of his friends and colleagues have continued to honour his legacy by taking part in other fund-raising ventures.

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‘We don’t want the best volunteers; we want our volunteers to be the best.’

Our core volunteers also received recognition for their work over the years when they

were honoured at the Balsall Heath Forum’s Dynamic Youth Awards. The five were Usama Mohammed, Akeel Iqbal, Hassnain Sultan,

Muhammad Tasadiq and Naz Abdul Wahid.

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WaTER WASHAllied to our water projects is the delivery of WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) programmes which have benefited nearly 240,000 people in the last year.

In Yemen, a partnership with UNICEF delivered a WASH emergency response programme to 140,000 individuals. A further 84,000 people benefited from our partnership with UNOCHA (the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs).

In Pakistan, a WASH emergency response programme was carried out to help internally displaced people in Bannu District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province. In total, it benefited 1,564 families (10,952 individuals).

Water is the most abundant natural resource but in parts of the world the scarcest. In Africa

and Asia, our supporters help provide long term solutions in the form of household and communal hand pumps; medium and large water wells for villages, plus solar powered

deep water wells in Tanzania and water filtration & purification plants in Pakistan.

In the last year, we have provided clean and safe drinking water to more than

100,000 beneficiaries (based on an average of 5 members per family).

In Bangladesh alone, more than 61,000 individuals have benefited

from our water programmes and we have started installing hand pumps

for the disenfranchised Rohingya population in Myanmar (Burma).

support our Water One50 campaign.

Provide clean water for a small village from just £150.

Our Mission Possible volunteers on deployment to Tanzania supplied and installed three rain water harvesting system in two schools and a dispensary and constructed toilets at Mwembeni School as part of their work in helping improve facilities for 2,050 local villagers.

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liVElihOOdsProviding livelihoods can be a platform towards self-sufficiency for those affected by natural disasters and those instigated by their fellow human beings.

In Bosnia, raspberry growing ventures were set up for 5 families (20 beneficiaries) who had no source of income, and the first of a series of planned beekeeping/apiary projects was implemented for a beneficiary, Faruk Ibiševića, and his family-of-six.

In Tanzania, livelihood opportunities and the empowerment of women have gone hand-in-hand with support to hundreds of families headed by women.

Our Mission Possible team provided livestock (3 dairy cows and 60 goats) and 3 shops for poor and disabled, while the Guernsey Overseas Aid Commission (GOAC) and donors from Panama have helped establish long term business ventures to benefit, directly or indirectly, 2,400 people.

For many communities struggling against adversity, the key to overcoming poverty is economic opportunity. During the last

year, we have helped hundreds of families take that step towards self-sufficiency.

In Pakistan, 322 families (approx. 2,400 people) were given temporary employment

through Cash For Work (CFW) activities and 150 small & medium enterprises (SMEs)

restored to activity as part of a floods recovery programme in District Jhang.

Four survivors of acid attacks in Multan, Punjab, were given help to set up their

own businesses, with grants in kind for establishing 3 grocery shops and 1 mobile clothes shop for the survivors.

In Nepal, local residents hit by the April 2015 earthquake were employed on projects

to help with reconstruction of homes and the rebuilding of a primary school.

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Help combat climate change while providing the means for communities to move towards self-sufficiency. Support our Trees for Change programme and our #TreeTuesdays social media campaign.

nOOR allah VillagE gOing gREEn

In August 2015 the inauguration took place of our showpiece Noor Allah Village

on the island of Aklan in the Philippines. The project was part of a long term recovery programme following the

devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

Noor Allah Village is a partnership of Islamic Help, the Islamic Development Bank and Abdullah Emad Al Muhaidib

and Noura Khalid Al Moajil.

It is not just about providing shelter, however, but establishing a legacy for a new community with 99 new family

homes housing more than 500 people, a masjid, a community centre and a library.

In August 2015, Islamic Help was among international representatives from across the Muslim world to launch the Islamic Climate Declaration calling for international action to combat climate change.

Our representation at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Turkey included a display showcasing our ‘green’ initiatives including our pioneering Children’s Eco Village in Tanzania.

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The work of our staff, supporters and volunteers received national

recognition when Islamic Help was honoured with the accolade

of Charity of the Year 2016 at the British Muslim Awards.

The annual awards honour the success, achievements and contribution of Britain’s Muslims and their role in

contributing to a better Great Britain.

A host of international stars took part in two major tours in support of our campaigns to help Syrian refugees and orphans.

In May 2015, a star-studded bill took part in our 10-city United We Stand tour in aid of our Birth campaign for Syrian refugee mothers and their babies.

The tour was met with national acclaim, and featured the UK stage debut of social media star Zaid Ali T, alongside Mesut Kurtis, Saif Adam, Harris J and hosts Preacher Moss and Rahim Jung.

Preacher Moss returned in March 2016 to headline our unique Public Convert No 1 comedy tour which took in 6 cities in support of our orphans and childcare programme. The internationally renowned stand-up comedian and writer was joined by comedian Aatif Nawaz, social media star Ali Official and spoken word artist Tommy ‘A-Man’ Evans.

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The inspiration for islamic help has been young people, our volunteers and staff, who have continued to drive our work through their inspirational efforts, and our supporters who have generously sacrificed their money and time to help others.

We can only extend our thanks to all of them for having helped so many people across the world and we pray their sacrifices and efforts are rewarded in this life and the next..

Muhammad Shafiq,

Islamic Help executive director

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Our work in the UK community included helping the most vulnerable, from the young

to the homeless and the elderly. Among other things, our staff and volunteers:

Distributed winter food hamper packs to elderly and vulnerable

residents in partnership with the Balsall Heath Forum

Joined with the SIFA Fireside charity to prepare and serve meals at its drop

in centre where it serves more than 3,000 breakfasts and lunches daily to

the homeless and vulnerable adults

Held an assembly and organised fund-raising plans for 635 pupils at Iqra primary school in Slough

who are supporting our Children’s Eco Village programme

Renewed our commitment to Attock Cricket Club as its

chosen charity of choice.

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