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Will You Donate for Hundreds of Such Children?

 

March 5, 2008 

 

As Salaamu Alaikum (May Peace Be Upon You), 

Husna Begum (48) has been a widow for the past five years, and struggles to provide for her three orphaned children,  Rabia (14), Amjad (12), and Salman (10).  Working as a house maid earning a meager 500 Rs per month (approx. $8/month), her family is barely scraping by.

Husna and her children live in a home that consists of two deteriorating rooms.  The roof is in such awful condition  that she fears that it may fall over her children at any moment while they may be sleeping.

All three children are fortunate enough to be in school and attend classes regularly.  They all dream of one day attending  a university, but due to a life of poverty that would not likely come true.

Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org), under its No Orphan without Education Project, is now supporting over 700 hundred orphan children and 300 widowed mothers including Husna and her children by paying for all of their educational expenses (such as tuition fees, examination fees, textbooks, school supplies, etc.) as well as giving a monthly stipend  to help pay for basic necessities such as food and medicine. Additionally, Hidaya is providing in-kind support such as
clothes, shoes, blankets and more to provide some comfort in their lives.  With this new support, Husna’s children can continue to dream big, and inshallah these dreams can become a reality.

For more information or to view photographs of this project, please visit:

http://www.hidaya.org/orphaneducation.htm

Would you like to be part of this great effort of helping the weakest group of society? Please donate online by check or credit card via the following link:

https://donation.hidaya.org/donation.aspx?projectId=77

You can mail checks payable "Hidaya Foundation" to: Hidaya Foundation, P.O. Box 5481, Santa Clara, CA 95056


Sincerely,
Waseem Baloch
Hidaya Foundation
(866) 244-3292 Toll Free

 

Hidaya Foundation (www.hidaya.org) is a US based non-profit 501(C)(3) charitable organization, with Tax ID# 77-0502583. Its mission is to implement projects in economically depressed areas of the world.
 

Sitara-e-Isaar Awarded to Hidaya Foundation

Hidaya Foundation was awarded Sitara-i-Eisaar (Star of Sacrifice) by the Government of Pakistan, in recognition of the results-oriented relief efforts during the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, during a special ceremony held at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2006.

 

Hidaya Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and charitable organization with FEIN 77-0502583. Your donations are tax deductible. Hidaya Foundation puts it’s best effort to utilizie the funds donated for a specific project, sometimes circumstances dictate we use funds otherwise.