Iftar Ramadan ( 13233 fasters at the Iftarsto the needy and orphans’ families):

 

The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: “Whosoever feeds a fasting one, he will be rewarded”. “Men fatar sae’man kan laho mesla ajraho, gheir anaho la yanqous min ajer al sae’m shaye’”.

 

Ramadan is the month of mercifulness and intercommunication between the Muslims; it is the month of generosity and open-handedness. In fact, the Islamic Welfare Association (ISWA) confirms this through Fasting Dinners (Iftars) Project that is implemented as follows:

 

1- Ramadan Dinner Meals (Iftars):

 

Ramadan dinners are held by ISWA in Saida, Tyre, Iqlim Al Kharoub villages, villages of the liberated South and the Palestinian camps at South Lebanon. ISWA sponsored persons and others from different areas of action participate in these dinners during all Ramadan days .

 

2- Hot meals:

 

ISWA distributes hot meals to the needy families in Saida city, to about 3100 meals 

 

 

 

 

 

Food Package (928 food packages):

 

ISWA offers food packages to its sponsored orphans and to the needy within its areas of action in cooperation with the charitable people, foodstuff benevolent traders in Saida, and the foreign associations.

 

 

Fiter Zakat (279 families):

 

ISWA distributed the Fiter Zakat to the orphans and the needy aiming to have a united and consolidated society, where every Muslim pays his Zakat which will be distributed among the orphans and the needy to enable them to buy the Eid necessities.  

 

  

Qurbani (855 Qurbanies to 8550 beneficiary families):

 

The Almighty Allah said: “therefore to thy Lord turn in Prayer and Sacrifice”. ISWA is always concerned about the commemorating of the Prophet’s Honourable Sunnas in the Muslim society and one of these Sunnas is Eid Qurbani.

 

ISWA receives the Qurbanies, and then they are slaughtered and distributed in the first and second day of Eid to the sponsored individuals and the needy people. By commemorating this blessed SUNNA, the spirit of contribution between the poor and his wealthy brother in Islam is clearly revealed and as a result of all that, everybody will have the chance to enjoy these blessed days.

 

 

 

 

Eid Clothes (5288 new clothes to the sponsored orphans in both Eids, Al Fiter and  Al Adha):

 

ISWA offers new clothes for the sponsored orphans in both Eids (Al-Adha and Al-Fitr) and collects financial donations and aids from the shops in Saida and from the foreign associations in order to enter happiness into the children’s hearts and to let them feel  and enjoy the atmosphere of the Eids like the other children.

 

 

School Aid Program (helping 2205 students: scholastic fees, books, stationery and 1131 bags with 478 stationery):

 

-          Offering school bag containing all the students’ stationery needs as: pens, copybooks and pencils according to his school level.

-      Offering school books, uniforms, discount of scholastic fees, school loans and financial aids to the orphans and the needy students at the official schools.

 

 

 

Supporting Scholastic Courses Program (learn … practice … innovate) to 207 students:

    -    ISWA organizes continuous sessions as supporting scholastic fees in 3 centers in Saida city and its surrounding.

   -  The sessions offer extra lessons in the main subjects: Science, Math, Arabic and English to the students of the primary, intermediate and secondary levels (from Monday till Thursday about 3 hours daily). The total number of students enrolled in these centers reached 207 students distributed among the following centers:

                   1-  Abu Oubaida Bin Al Jarah center at Al Tameer and  Al Vilat/ Siada from Grade 4 till Grade 8.

                       2-  Al Rahma Center for Community Service at  Saida, Abra, Al Hilaleya and the surrounding  from Grade 4 till Grade 12.

                         3-  Zou Al Nourain Center/ Saida  at the old town of Saida from Grade 3 till grade 6.