Subject: Thank you for your support Friend

 

Assalamu alaykum Friend


I hope you're doing well insha Allah. I'd like to express my sincerest gratitude for having trusted NZF with your Zakat & Sadaqah. Despite the concerns of COVID19, we have had tremendous support from people such as yourself and received $3.15 million in Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitr and Fidyah this Ramadan. This is about a 40% increase since last year Alhamdulillah.


Allah is the Best of Planners. As we've highlighted before, we are also seeing an increase in the number of cases due to the pandemic. In April, our cases where triple the number compared to last year. May seems slightly lower but still more than double. We expect the effects of COVID19 to last well through the next year and the hard-work continues for us. As you have put your trust in us we assure you that we will do our best to assist all those in need both in the short term as well as more sustainably in the longer term insha Allah.


I also wanted to give you some insights into what our plans are this year. As a reminder, our vision at NZF is for Islam to flourish in society as a source of prosperity and harmony for all. Our mission is to distribute Zakat in a transformative manner within Australia.

Our five key focus areas

  1. Our Team: To have an engaged, experienced and motivated team.

  2. You the Donor: To continue the education of Zakat, including; obligations, benefits, calculations and local need.

  3. The Receiver: To increase our reach of receivers and to provide an efficient, friendly and compassionate service.

  4. Programs: To support or implement programs that are effective and beneficial for the welfare of the overall community. 

  5. Sustainability: To establish mechanisms to ensure the on-going operational sustainability. 

 

As we mature as an organisation, we are now expanding beyond just providing emergency relief into establishing or supporting existing programs that encompass the overall well-being of our community.


Our programs


In the past, we have been running programs such as Qurban, Quran Schools, Back to School Support, Crisis Accommodation, etc. which we are continuing to grow. In addition, this year, we have identified 14 more programs below that we are keen to either start or partner with organisations to establish them in our community insha Allah.

  1. Muslim Foster Care & Support for Australian orphaned children

  2. Mental Health for Men & Women

  3. Muslim Refugee advocacy and support

  4. Muslim Disability awareness and support

  5. Domestic Violence advocacy and support

  6. Counselling for families & individuals to educate & build self-confidence

  7. Burial affordibility support service

  8. Support for families of In-mates

  9. Zakat Research & Development

  10. WAQF program for sustainability

  11. Sponsorships for sustainability - Corporate & Individual

  12. Strategic partnerships with other community organisations

  13. Zikkies expansion to other states

  14. Drug addiction rehabilitation support program

Friend I know you are someone who believes in supporting our local community. I would be very grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to review our list of programs and provide us with some feedback.

  1. If you had to prioritise the programs, what would be your top 3?

  2. Do you have other programs in mind that you believe we should look at

  3. Are you interested in assisting in any way with any of these programs?

You can either reply to this email or click below to submit your feedback.

Click here to choose top 3 programs

I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you once again for your support and I hope you find the above update useful to understand what NZF is aiming to do in our local community in the coming year.


As always, please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions.


Wassalam,

Abu Muneer

 

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