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Your donations are helping vulnerable families around the world. Throughout the winter months, WF-AID in collaboration with our Regional Federations as well as our trusted partners on the ground, have been distributing life-saving winter essentials to families living in poverty around the world. You can see the impact your donations have had below. However, winter...

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and restrictions, people around the world have lost their jobs and their incomes. People who were working non-contract jobs, such as labourers, and people with their own businesses have been hit even harder. To help get people back on their feet, we have worked with...

At WF-AID, we want to make a long-lasting change in the lives of the people we help. We aim to run sustainable projects, which can make people self-sufficient, changing not only their own lives but the lives of generations to come. One such project is our self-employment project in Pakistan. Through our local partners, we...

As part of our aim to lift families out of poverty, we have been implementing microfinance projects across the world. In Karachi, Pakistan, we are working with our partners to provide small business loans to 1500 members of our Khoja community. These loans will allow people to build and expand their businesses, through purchasing stock,...

Throughout 2020, your donations have been providing urgently needed support to some of the millions of people in need across Yemen. We have been working with our partners, who are based in the capital city Sana'a, to ensure we reach as many people as possible, from the young to the old, in several areas, providing...

Every year, Muslims across the world mark the occasion of Eid al-Hajj by performing the ritual of Qurbani, where the meat is then distributed among the needy and poor. At WF-AID, we work with Africa Federation to facilitate your Qurbani orders in East Africa. This year, we also worked with our partners in Yemen to...

Since the coronavirus pandemic began, we have been trying to provide much-needed support to families around the world. In South Africa, as with many places around the world, families are struggling financially. The lockdowns, job losses, and reduced income have had a particularly strong impact on the families who were already living paycheque to paycheque....

From January to May 2020, The Rufiji village in Tanzania was hit with extremely strong rainfall and flash flooding, causing social and economic disasters affecting the poor communities in the area. In total, 66,000 hectares of farms were swept away, leading to loss of harvest and a poor business environment. 3,500 homes were demolished. Families...

In November 2020, our newly appointed representative in Pakistan, Mustafa Hemani, visited seven jamaats in Sindh, Pakistan where he saw the work being done by the dedicated volunteers to repair houses that had been damaged by flooding in the area. In total, Mustafa visited seven jamaats, including Mirpur Bathoro, Nindo Shehr, Talhar, Tando Bhago, Kadhan,...