FUND

SPONSORSHIP AMOUNT

1.    AL QA’IM SPONSOR OUR SENIORS PROGRAM

Since 2003, The World Federation provides welfare assistance to 110 senior citizens in Bihar and 50 seniors in Sri Lanka living in severe poverty. These are elders of our community who either have no children, or who have been abandoned by their children or whose children are financially struggling and cannot care for their aged parents. These seniors have no income to support themselves in their old age. The financial aid we provide them each month allows them to purchase basic items such as food, medicine and clothes.

Monthly: 10 GBP / 20 USD-CAD

Yearly: 120 GBP / 240 USD-240

2.    ALI ASGHAR WATER APPEAL (AAWA)

Water is the very symbol of life. The Ali Asghar Water Appeal (AAWA) provides struggling families with easy access to clean water and adequate sanitation facilities in developing countries. In Pakistan, where an estimated 30% of the population has no access to clean drinking water, The World Federation is constructing deep bore wells and restoring water hand pumps destroyed in the July 2010 floods that caused havoc across Pakistan. Village by village, families have easy access to clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing and even performing wudhu. A small drop makes big ripples. If you wish to sponsor a full well or water pump and would like a donor or memorial plaque made,  please email relief@world-federation.org

Water Hand Pumps:

· $650 USD (Rocky Areas)

· $550 USD (Plane-level Areas)

· $250 USD (Indus River border)

Deep Bore Wells:

·          £1,680 GBP / $2675 USD-CAD

Latrines:

·          £300 GBP / $485 USD-CAD

3.    DELIVERING THE FUTURE:

ISLAMIC SCHOLARS FOR ISLAMIC CENTRES

For the past 2 years, our activities in Pakistan’s flood affected areas have focussed on delivering the future –a balanced approach to building strong, sustainable and spiritual communities. Donations to this program fund the placement of desperately needed religious guides in the 105 newly built Islamic Centres across Pakistan. This initiative ensures that the centres are well utilised and that children and youth are educated in Islamic teachings. This project is underway and the results are outstanding. Already we are making a real and lifelong impact on thousands of men, women and children who are rediscovering the light and guidance of the Ahlul Bayt (as).  

Cost of sponsoring one Islamic Scholar in one Islamic Centre for one year:

£965 GBP / $1,540 USD-CAD

4.    HADITH E KISA BLANKET DRIVE

The Hadith-e-Kisa Blanket Drive provides warm blankets to individuals living in and affected by the severe cold temperatures of their homelands. These families cannot afford fuel to heat their homes or warm blankets to stay warm in the winter months. Year after year, they suffer the icy clutch of winter which grips the children and the elderly the hardest. In March 2012, another appeal was launched to raise funds to purchase and distribute 2,000 warm blankets to families living in Mazar Sharif, Afghanistan. Here, severe winter weather is excruciating for families living in poverty who are affected by frostbite. Distribution of these blankets is scheduled for Winter 2012/13.

Cost of one blanket:

$20 USD / £13 GBP

5.    ZAINABIYA CHILD SPONSORSHIP SCHEME (ZCSS)

Children exemplify one of the best opportunities for overcoming

poverty. Through the Zainabiya Child Sponsorship Scheme, The World Federation is committed to eradicating the root causes of poverty through education. ZCSS provides quality education to 5,309 children across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania and Haiti who otherwise cannot afford school fees. Our education objective is to empower communities to become self-sufficient. This is already creating a generation of skilled individuals who are working together to lift their communities out poverty.

Cost of sponsoring one student:

PRIMARY EDUCATION:

Monthly:  £10 GBP / $20 USD-CAD

Yearly: £120 GBP / $240 USD-CAD

HIGHER EDUCATION:

Monthly:   £55 GBP / $90 USD-CAD

Yearly:  £660 GBP / $1,080 USD-CAD