Ramadan TV SKY 192 Appeal 25/07/13

We are doing a live appeal for four projects today on Ramadan TV Channel 192. We are raising funds for Cleft Surgery, Hifz Sponsorship, Rohingya Muslim Food Pack and Clean Water Project.

Hifz-e-Quran:

The Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) said, 'The best among you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it to others (Bukhari) £15 a month or just 50p a day can help a poor student memorize the Qur'an. This is one to one sponsorship where you are updated on a regular basis about the child's progress.

Ramadan 2013 Target:

Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust wants to raise funds to help sponsor 30 Hafiz-e-Quran this Ramadan.

£540 for full sponsorship of a child to memorize the whole Quran for three years.

http://www.almustafatrust.org/content/Our-Work/What-We-Do/Our-Sponsorship-Schemes/Hafiz-Sponsorships/index.htm

#supportachildhifz

Cleft Surgery:

Children with cleft lip and palate are likely to face bullying or teasing. Sufferers with cleft lip or palate are less likely than non-affected peers to marry. In Uganda babies with cleft are called 'Ajok' which means sadly means 'cursed by God' In many parts of the world babies with cleft are killed or abandoned after birth.

Every year more than 170,000 children are born globally with clefts.

Abdul's Story:

Abdul Basit was borne with Cleft palates, unlike normal children he was unable to eat and smile. He had cleft surgery at our hospital and now looks like a normal baby.

With generous support from donors like yourself we are able to carry out this free surgery which costs just £150 to help children like Abdul Basit smile.

It cost just £150 to give Abdul his smile back.



Ramadan 2013 Target:

This Ramadan we aim to generate funds to carry out 100 Cleft Surgeries.

By donating the amounts below we can achieve our target!

£150 for one cleft surgery

£300 for two cleft surgeries

£600 for four cleft surgeries

£750 for five cleft surgeries

£900 for for six cleft surgeries

http://www.almustafatrust.org/content/Our-Work/What-We-Do/Our-Health-Projects/Internal-Medical-Services/Free-Cleft-Surgery/index.htm

#givethemachancetosmile

Rohingya Muslim Food Pack

Over 100,000 Rohingya from Burma are displaced, thousands of their Mosques and homes have been burnt, hundreds killed, women dishonored and children killed

The Burmese Rohingya Muslim's are 15 recognized as one of the world's most persecuted minorities, stateless and living in constant fear. Living in make-shift camps on the border between Burma and Bangladesh, they are in desperate need of food, shelter and medical aid.

The AMWT team visited Burma to supervise the delivery of aid first hand and and met many Muslim refugees living in no-mans land. As was clearly evident, our children and elderly were suffering the most. Please help them.


The Need:

• Food and water
• Clothing and other non-food items
• Medical care
• Shelter

Text BRMA10 £10 to 70070 to donate to Al Mustafa Welfare Trust and make a difference today http://www.justgiving.com/almustafawelfaretrust

Help the Rohingya Muslims:

£175 can help feed a whole family during Ramadan 2013.

For more information on the Rohingya Muslims visit our website:

http://www.almustafatrust.org/content/Our-Work/Latest-Appeals/Burma/index.htm

#helpthepeopleofburma #ramadanfoodaid

Clean Water:

People are suffering and lives are lost every minute and every day needlessly because of a lack of safe water and sanitation.

With your support we help local communities have easy access to clean water to end this global crisis and transform lives. According to the UNOCHA only 30% of the population in Somalia has access to safe drinking water sources. Our water-well projects are helping people to access clean water at their door step.

Omer and family from Somalia are happy

Omer is 43 years old from Somalia and father of 5 children and living in Belet-Alkarim village where we have installed a well.

"The main problem in the area is lack of clean water. People have to travel very far and our children have to help us to collect water. The whole village and especially children suffer from time to time from various diseases mainly, typhoid, diarrhoea, bilharzias and malaria which are caused by unclean water. I am happy now we have a well near our house."

Over 6000 people are benefiting from this well.

Zain, his cousins and friends having fun

Zain is from Shikarpur,in Sindh, Pakistan, where underground drinking water has been contaminated since the disastrous 2011 floods. We have installed hundreds of hand pumps in flood affected areas to help children like Zain to have access to clean water at their door step.

 £6000 can build a water filtration system
 £1000 could help install a agricultural tube well
 £2500 could help dig a community well
 £300 could help install an electric pump
 £200 could help fix a water pump

http://www.almustafatrust.org/content/Our-Work/What-We-Do/Water-Sanitation/index.htm

#givethemcleanwater

Ways to donate:

1. Visit our website - www.almustafatrust.org
2. Donation Hotline: 0208 569 6444 / Studio: 0208 634 5888
3. Bank:

Bank Name: Natwest Bank
Account Name: Al Mustafa Welfare Trust
Account No: 20366027
Sort Code: 60-11-18
BIC: NWBKGB2L
IBAN: GB10NWBK60111820366027

Free Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery Appeal

Problem

Cleft lip and palate are birth defects and are the most common congenital facial deformities. A cleft is a fissure or opening—a gap. A cleft lip can be either unilateral or bilateral. With a unilateral cleft lip, the gap is only on one side of the lip under either the left or right nostril and might extend into the nose. Babies born with a bilateral cleft lip have a gap on both sides of the lip, and they may have a deep split in the lip that extends into both nostrils. A person with a cleft could have only a cleft palate, only a cleft lip, or both a cleft lip and a cleft palate.

Every year more than 170,000 children are born with clefts. Cleft lips and palates occur in approximately 1 per 500-700 births, the ratio varying considerably across geographic areas or ethnic groupings. Clefts occur more frequently among Asians (about 1:400) and certain American Indians than Europeans. Clefts are relatively less common among Africans and African Americans (about 1:1500). Cleft lip alone and cleft lip with a cleft palate occurs more often in boys, while cleft palate without a cleft lip occurs more often in girls.

(Source: World Health Organization International Collaborative Research on Craniofacial Anomalies)

• 170,000 children are born with clefts every year
• 1 in 700 children born have a cleft lip or cleft palate
• 10,000 babies are born with clefts in Pakistan every year
• 300,000 cleft lip and palate sufferers in Bangladesh
• 35,000 children in India are born with cleft every year
• 90% sufferers can't afford surgery

Causes

Cleft lips and palates are due to the non-fusion of the body's natural structures that form before birth. Generally, facial clefting results when medial, lateral, and maxillary nasal processes on either left, right or both sides of the forming craniofacial complex do not fuse completely. Suspected causes include genetic (inherited) and environmental factors (like maternal diseases due to certain medications or vitamin deficiencies).

Cursed and Isolated

Children with cleft lip and palate may have had to cope with bullying or teasing. Sufferers with cleft lip/palate are less likely than non-affected peers to marry. In Uganda babies with cleft are called Ajok which means “Cursed by God.” In many parts of the world babies with cleft are killed or abandoned right after birth.

Also, children with cleft lip and cleft palate also difficulties with eating, hearing loss, dental problems, such as cavities and missing or malformed teeth, speech and language delay.

How We Work

AMWT organises free plastic surgery camps for treatment of children born with cleft lip and palate once a year. Camps are arranged in the poorest parts of the world where the higher number of clef lip and palate cases are located. Such as Pakistan, Kashmir, Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda. Each camp carries out up to 50 surgeries. The surgeries are carried out at camps and complex cases are referred to the network of Al Mustafa medical centres or nearby private hospitals.

AMWT also organize seminars and public lectures for awareness of this issue. These events help to increase the interaction of cleft patients with the society and reduce their feelings of deprivation and isolation.

It Just Costs £150 to give Smile

£750.00 can provide cleft surgery for five children

£450.00 can provide cleft surgery for three children

£150.00 can provide cleft surgery for one child

£75.00 can help train a surgeon

£30.00 can cover costs for an overnight hospital stay

We will welcome any contribution

Free Eye Camps

Al-Mustafa Welfare Trust is offering Free Eye Camps on an emergency basis that will offer free checkups, medicine and glasses to the needy such as orphans, poor people and the elder;y. We are building free eye camps in many countries including Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Gambia. For more information visit our website: http://www.almustafatrust.org/

Cleft Surgery TV Appeal