The "Gift of Vision" Fundraising Dinner 1st May Leytonstone

Dear social followers,

Our forthcoming "Gift of Vision" Fundraising Dinner will be taking place on 1st May 2014 in Ivory Mansion, Leytonstone. To book your place visit our microsite: 

http://thegiftofvision.almustafatrust.org/fundraising-dinner/

@almustafawti #giftofvision

Al Mustafa Welfare Trust - The "Gift of Vision" Country Tour 2014

There are approximately 285 million people worldwide that live with low vision and blindness who cannot participate in day-to-day activities and are unable to earn their livelihood due to poor eye sight or temporary blindness. This country wide tour is to help restore sight to as many people as possible.

Your support and donations can help blind and partially sighted people experience the world with their own eyes. With your support these people can educate themselves and earn their livelihoods. Al-Mustafa Welfare trust has been involved in setting up free eye camps on an emergency basis in many developing countries since its formation. Our free eye camps have been previously setup in the following countries:

- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Bangladesh
- Palestine
- Somalia
- Kashmir

Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust has carried out over 5,000 eye operations in 2012-2013. Our target for 2014 is achieving 10,000 eye operations to those that need it the most. A cataract operation costs as little as £35 per person. The "Gift of Vision" Country Tour will help us achieve this target and help make a difference to many people in the developing world.



Our Tour Dates are as follows:

London - Sunday 9th February
Birmingham - Friday 21st February
Manchester - Friday 28th February
Blackburn - Friday 7th March
Bradford - Saturday 8th March
Leicester - Sunday 9th March

You can book your place by clicking on any of the events listed below or visit our Eventbrite page:

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/al-mustafa-welfare-trust-5895097833 or visiting our website page:http://www.almustafatrust.org/countrytour2014/

@almustafawti #countrytour2014 

AMWT organized a one day Social Welfare Training Workshop

Al Mustafa Welfare Trust organized a one day Social Welfare Training Workshop for all of its employees and office staff around the country on Sunday Dec 22nd at 10.00 am at Hamdard Hall, Lyton Road, Lahore. The Chief Patron of Al Mustafa Welfare Trust, Haji Haneef Tayyab, presided over the event.

Haji Haneef appreciated the efforts made by AMWT’s workers situated across the country and made a special appeal to highlight the role of social workers in the current circumstances which has been critical more then ever especially with the global economic austerity period. The chairman of Al Mustafa Welfare Trust Abdul Razzaq Sajid said "AMWT will continue its services for the benefit of entire humanity".

Winter 2013 Appeal

Keeping Humanity Warm This Winter

Winter is approaching fast in war-torn Syria, Burma, Gaza, Somalia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines with potentially fatal consequences for vulnerable families and those living in make shift conditions without adequate shelter, bedding or warm clothes. Families are already fragile from the stress associated with conflict and displacement. Many are to face the torrential rains and sub-zero temperatures in the forth coming winter months.

Thousands of families are desperately need of warm clothes, blankets and food supplies to protect them from the freezing winter temperatures.

Summer is easy to survive in conflict and emergency zones but winter is a serious threat for ill equipped families in the icy weather. People living in temporary shelters with no warm cloths and blankets are less likely to be able to escape winter although they survived conflicts bombs and natural disasters.

HOW YOUR DONATIONS COULD HELP

£15 could help to buy a blanket, warm clothes, socks, hat and scarve.
£20 towards the cost of food pack for a family for winter season

Make your donation online by visiting www.almustafatrust.org or call our donation hotline: 0208 569 6444.

#winter2013appeal

Al Mustafa Welfare Trust wins 'Pakistan Achievement Awards UK and Europe 2013

Al Mustafa Welfare Trust wins 'Pakistan Achievement Awards UK and Europe 2013' with the chairman of the charity Abdul Razaq Sajid receiving this prestigious award. A big thank you to all of our donors and supporters that nominated us for this award. This award was in recognition of Al Mustafa's immense contribution for humanitarian services in Pakistan as well as many other parts of the world.

Global Vision Aid Launch

AMWT launches ‘Global Vision Aid’ for blindness

October 30, 2013

LAHORE (PR) - Al Mustafa Welfare Trust (AMWT), a worldwide charity organisation based in UK, has launched ‘Global Vision Aid’ (GVA) project for blindness. During this campaign AMWT would arrange free eye screening facilities and operate cataract surgeries through eye camps, eye clinics and medical centers. This campaign has launched from Pakistan and later it would be introduced in Asia, Africa and Middle East countries.

Chairman Al Mustafa Abdul Razzaq Sajid said in a statement that Trust would operate 10,000 cataract surgeries and screening 100,000 eye patients in next year. He said under Global Vision Aid free eye camps are being organized in backward and far-flung areas of Pakistan.

He further said that recently Trust has organised free eye camps in Kallar Syedan district Rawalpindi, Khanewal, Jhelum, Lahore, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Shorkot and different parts of Kashmir. A ten-day free eye camp would continue from October 25 to November 3 at Basic Health Centre Chak 14 of district Chiniot where more than 400 cataract surgeries would be conducted. This eye camp campaign would continue from October to December 2013.

Sajid said that according to a world estimate visually impaired people were 285 million, of whom 39 million are blinds. The major reasons of blindness are damage of retina caused by complications of diabetes, age-related muscular degeneration (AMD), a medical condition which usually affects older adults and results in loss of vision. Corneal opacities, a serious vision problem and cataract, clouding of lens inside the eye, are most common causes of blindness, conventionally treated by surgery. Glaucoma was another serious threat in which the optic nerve was damaged in a characteristics pattern. It was also called silent thief of sight because loss of vision often occurs gradually over a long period of time. Once a lost vision could not normally be recovered, he added. So treatment was aimed at preventing further loss. Trachoma, he said, also called granular conjunctivitis leading cause of infectious blindness in the world, he concluded. 

Urdu Times