Published May 1, 2012

Students completing their projects as part of their final exam

While many students in the U.S.A. and around the world worry, study and sit for this semester's final exams, a very special group of women are doing the same in a small village in Pakistan. The Ranta Village in the Sindh region of Pakistan is home to a community of families whose homes and livlihoods were devastated after the 2010 floods. After the floods destroyed their school, homes and livestock Baitulmaal responded by providing not only emergency disaster relief, but by implementing sustainable projects to provided full restoration to their lives.

One of the ways in which we have done that is by opening a vocational training center for women that teaches them a valuable trade to use as a means by which to help provide for their family. 

Published April 20, 2012

Students of the primary school in Ranta, Sindh, Pakistan

In 2010 the devastating floods in Pakistan claimed the lives of thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands, In a small town called Ranta, located in the Sindh region of Pakistan, a local primary school was damaged beyond repair. The government had no plans to rebuild or even reopen the school leaving an entire village without the hope of an education. Some of the town council reached out to Baitulmaal's staff members in our Pakistan office for help. Baitulmaal made a committment to this village that we would not let these children lose hope and would do whatever it takes to get this school up and running.

Published April 12, 2012

Gaza has been an area of focus for Baitulmaal for several years now. We have supported them with millions of dollars worth of food supplies, basic necessities, and orphan sponsorship funding to help them in their desperate living situation. The time has come however to focus more heavily on sustainable development within this region. It is not enough to send a box of food that will cover a family for a couple of weeks, we must do our best to provide solutions that will give them the opportunity to provide for themselves after our relief teams have left.

One of the ways that Baitulmaal plans to do that is by funding a community bakery that will create jobs for local citizens there, provide local bread making facilities thus reducing the import costs from other areas, generate income to introduce the self-sufficiency these humble people desire so eagerly. This project will be considered Project #1 for "The Gaza Project" our newest initiative to assist the people of Gaza. Please review the details of our project below and consider donating to be a part of the relief effort.