Our Current and Future Projects
Fight Against Hunger In Our Own Backyard Campaign
"Muslims Against Hunger Project " has launched its "Fight Against Hunger in Our Backyard" campaign by organizing special "Muslims Serve Day" in various parts of the NY/NJ metropolitan area. Volunteers will gather to prepare hot meals and serve the hungry, working poor and homeless.
It is an important time in the metro New York and New Jersey that Muslim volunteers have joined hands together for a local charity project, it is an Islamic tradition to feed the poor and needy on any kind of memorable occasion in our life. This time of the year the crowd in soup kitchens is larger than usual because bad weather has put many day laborers out of work. Also, seniors on fixed incomes are running low on cash as the month wears down.
Hunger Awareness Week School Program
Schools are provided a hunger awareness training packet to have activities in every class and children 13 years and old are given an opportunity to work in a soup kitchen to help prepare meals and serve the guests of the soup kitchen.
Hunger Van Project – Soup Kitchen on the Wheels
Volunteers from Mosques to help collect/ prepare food and Provide food directly to the needy, ill, or children in the form of meals or food boxes as an ongoing part of the program.
Ramadan Food Drive for your local Food Bank
Emergency Shelter for Domestic Violence Families
Halal Soup Kitchen and Social Service Center -- Our Place/Chez Nous/Hamara Ghar/Baytuna
Muslims Agianst Hunger has started a multi-phase project to establish Halal Soup Kitchens and poverty-relief Social Services Community Center in Newark, New Jersey and Morne-a-Bruler, Haiti. These projects will be the first Halal Soup Kitchens in the Americas. Muslims Agianst Hunger will raise the seed money and provide the management services to the proposed Halal Soup Kitchens and Social Services Centers named Our Place/Chez Nous/Hamara Ghar/Baytuna.
The Halal Soup Kitchen and Social Services Center will implement vast array of programs that would provide all the basic human needs vital to day-to-day survival; Daily Soup Kitchen with hot meals, showers for the homeless, and free medical care; job training; classes in English as a Second Language, literacy, computers, office skills and sewing; tutoring for kids in math, reading and science; and a community wide adopt-a-needy family program. The community center will be dedicated to relieving the poverty by taking a holistic and humanitarian approach with the underlying goal of lifting the needy out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.
The center’s underlying mission will be to provide the means and the path to self-sufficiency... to “break the bonds of poverty.” It will provide opportunities and support essentials to reducing, and hopefully, eliminating reliance on public and private assistance. And, it will all be done in a manner that maintains the dignity and self-esteem of recipients.
To make this project sustainable we are looking for Masajids to make commitment for supplying meals which will be served every day at this soup kitchen in Newark. Our vision is to create a model soup kitchen with a social service community center and as a result of this pilot project open similar social service centers with a soup kitchen all over north America where ever there is a need to feed (Muslim) hungry and homeless. This project will provide Muslim community an opportunity to practice charity by spending Zakat and Sadaqa by helping the needy in our backyard. Our goal is to find Masajid willing to sponsor 1 to 4 weeks per year.