As coronavirus spreads to millions across the world, thousands of people in the UK are experiencing severe hardship. Fast Money is your chance to do a little extra good to help them, during the month of Ramadan. This year we've partnered with National Zakat Foundation (NZF) to support their Hardship Relief Fund. Simply give up your lunch money, or unspent travel expenses, to help people suffering hardship from the Coronavirus.
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In 2019, Muslims in Rail members raised over £4,000 to support the education of abandoned street children and orphans in Dhaka (Bangladesh), in Muslim Charity’s ‘School under the sky’ project. Helping poor children benefit from education in a pop-up school in a railway station.
Every year thousands of children across the UK, India and East Africa run away or are forced to leave homes that have become unbearable through poverty, abuse, violence and neglect. MIR members will be swapping their warm bed at home for the cold floor of a railway station for just one night to help raise awareness as well as vital funds to support the hundreds of children who face this ordeal every day around the world.
A total of 7,484 people were seen rough sleeping in London during 2017/18. With the winter months set to bring further harsh weather into the capital, MIR are supporting charities Rhythms of Life and Merton Faith in Action with regular food distribution and a Winter Night Shelter respectively.
Tour de Salah, the biggest organised bike event of its kind, was a unique physical and spiritual challenge like no other! Cycling across the capital stopping at iconic mosques and enjoying wonderful scenery along the way, three members cycled 100km raising £100 for Barnardo’s Young Carers.
MIR made a difference by helping renovate a school that will benefit generations for years to come! MIR members helped decorate an Islamic School prior to its re-opening under new management.
Established by a group of British-Syrians, looking for how to help Syria, Hand in Hand for Syria has grown to become one of the leading humanitarian charities serving Syrian communities in Syria and neighbouring countries. MIR members supported filling a container with food and clothes for transportation to Syria.
As part of our follow-up Fast Money Ramadan campaign, we encouraged members and their colleagues to donate their ‘Fast’ money saved from skipping lunch, snacks or indeed the whole day’s food. £1,102 was raised from 65 donations for Barnardo’s and a cheque presented during our Eid Dinner.
For the first time ever, Muslims in Rail members came together to support our first ever Ramadan Charity Campaign, known as Fast Money. We encouraged members and their colleagues to donate their ‘Fast’ money saved from skipping lunch, snacks or indeed the whole day’s food. £1,724 was raised from 79 kind donors for Network Rail’s charity of choice CLIC Sargent, supporting children undergoing cancer treatment.
