Feeding The Poor This Ramadan

RAMADAN comes again with thousand of goodness, thus we as a muslims should grab this chances for our prosperity in the world and the hereafter. One of the ways can be done by contributing your money to Islamic Relief Malaysia (IR Malaysia) Berhad that will devide those charitable property to unlucky people. They are hoping that more people can benefit from its food distribution programme this year.To be able to do that, the non-governmental organisation is banking on contributions from the public so that the poor could have enough to break fast like everyone this month. Called the “Feed the Fasting” food aid programme, this is carried out annually during the Ramadan month, in which Malaysians can donate RM50 to help a poor family sustain for at least a week. The fluctuation and increase of food prices have affected the amount of foodstuff they can pack with RM50. Besides, all people are considering the same facts that they should manage their money properly due to the increase of food prices. But this will not break their effort to accomplish this harmony vision in order to help unfortunate people. This is based on the principle in Islam that encourage us to help others. However, each package this year will still consists of the basic foodstuff like rice, flour, oil, and sugar. It is difficult to tell if those boxes could sustain the poor throughout Ramadan, generally IR Malaysia’s primary aim was to ease their burden. They hope to continue the campaign even during Hari Raya so that they have proper meals to eat during the festive period. In addition, IRM also help in building a library fo an orphanage . They also distribute food for the orphans to break fast.They hoped people could come forward to pledge cash contributions rather than second-hand books as they believed orphans should still receive the best in education. A medical health check-up was also provided for the recipients in Chemor during the distribution campaign.They also hoping more corporations can sponsor them with cash or kind. From this article we can conclude that each person has the responsibilities to help each other although we are not recognizing each other but as a muslims we are siblings in our religion with the same faith and stage. Therefore, there is no excuses to neglect them in our life, and be careful that Allah will ask us what have we done for our religion, if we have done nothing in our life we may be facing diffculties in the hereafter. So, donate your money in the right path rather than wasting them in bad path.
Those who wish to contribute can log onto www.irm.org.my or call 03-8948 6334.


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