Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Garage Sale ... Proceedings to go to ICNA Relief Dallas Food Pantry ...

Assalamu Alaikum WRH Brothers & Sisters,

When one intends to help an individual or an organization and makes an earnest effort, our beloved creator Allah swt opens many avenues to choose. Our respected sisters from East Plano & Murphy choose one such avenue using which they would galvanize the community's help into donating house hold items which are gently  used or are in excess or in no use at all.

This effort of collecting items started in the first week of this month, and Shukur Alhamdulillah, we were able to stack a decent variety of items. More is anticipated down the line. Insha Allah, under the leadership of Sr. Shazia Al Hasan, the garage sale event will get conducted this month end. If you would like to donate the items in conditions mentioned above, please feel free to call Sr. Shazia Al Hasan (
832-279-5893), and drop them at the venue mentioned by her.
 
~*Zahid Hussain*~

ICNA Relief USA ~ Dallas Chapter
Operations Manager - DFW Area
220 E. Spring Valley Rd
Richardson, TX 75081
Office: (972) 669 9625

If there is a will there is a way..

Assalamu Alaikum WRH Brothers and Sisters,

Couple of months back, a group of our sisters formulated a plan to help an organization. Rather than directly helping financially they conducted a 
GARAGE SALE. They received tremendous support from the community and Shukur Alhamdulillah, they made a decent collection and thus ended up helping the organization. It ended up as a Win Win situation. As said, If there's a will, there is a way.

Now, the same sisters want to repeat this noble exercise. This time, they want to help ICNA Relief Dallas Food Pantry.

What started as a help providing food for the refugees along with rental / utility assistance, ICNA Relief Dallas opened a food pantry, in a place surrounded by 
400
 refugee families, facilitating them with much needed food help. We are currently serving every week 30 families of various ethnicity from Burma, Iraq, Nepal, Bhutan, Tunisia, Somalia, Sudan, Ghana, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Liberia. Every week approximately 1500 lbs of food gets distributed evenly. We have a proper procedure in place and everything is audited neat and clean. 

Shukur Alhamdulillah, Not a single grain goes waste.

Helped So Far in 2012:

93 Families (May 1st - May 31st)            5385 Lbs 
95 Families (April 1st - April 30th)       5000Lbs
30 Families (March 11th - March 31st) 1585 Lbs

We need your help. On the sister's behalf, I am requesting you to provide them full support. Drop in the items which are excessive in your home, not being used and are in a good condition at the address & contact# posted below. If you need any help, feel free to call me. Please call the contact# before dropping the items.

Also please spread the word ...

Venue:
309 Holly Court, 
Murphy, TX.
 
~*Zahid Hussain*~

ICNA Relief USA ~ Dallas Chapter
Operations Manager - DFW Area
Food Pantry: 7317 Holly Hill Drive, Dallas TX 75231.

Youth - A blessed phase in one's life ...


Assalaamu Alaikum WRH Brothers & Sisters  
Pray to our beloved creator Allah swt that everyone would be in His safest custody, and enjoying a good health. Aameen.    
  
All praises are to our beloved creator Allah swt without His mercy, we would not be where we are now.    
    
With the advent of summer holidays, Masha Allah, its a wonderful sight to view our youth's population in the masajids is on the increase. It gives me immense pleasure to view our future generation participating in all the novel programs, the DFW metroplex masajids have devised to engage them.
ICNA Relief Dallas Food Pantry is one such novel program made available to our DFW metroplex youth. They can volunteer in our food pantry, in a pristine environment which we cater to our youth. Shukur Alhamdulillah. 
To help us channelize the contributions received from donors, help is certainly needed. And our beloved creator Allah swt blessed us with YOU, Youth.  
Jazak Allahu Khairan for the blessed parents who motivated their youth and now they are already part of our food pantry program.   
  
Please call the contact# to schedule your volunteer hours soon.    
  
So Far Served in 2012:  
93 Families (May 1st - May 31st)            5385 Lbs 
95 Families (April 1st - April 30th)       5000Lbs
30 Families (March 11th - March 31st) 1585 Lbs
  
  • Donate us your hard earned $s, your donation will be put into best use.
  • Donate your time, an hour , and you can help serve healthy nutritious food to many families.
  • Donate us the food, every item of food we receive from you, helps our efforts in fighting the hunger more better.

Need of the Week: 
Salt
Cooking Oil (small Size) 
Sugar 4lbs
Flour (5 Lbs pack) 
Eggs (12 / 18)   
Sanitary Pads & Tampons  
Diapers (Size 3 - 5)  
Dishwasher Liquid (Medium Size)
 
Toilet Paper
Laundry Detergent (small size) 
 
  ___________________________________________________   
Make "Giving" your regular act of kindness
Become a partner with ICNA Relief Dallas in
"Fight Against Hunger"
Volunteer your time - Donate food or cash    
Make Dua for our donors & volunteers.    
 ___________________________________________________ 
Food Pantry's Address:
 7317 Holly Hill Drive, Dallas, TX 75231.
Hours of operation: 
Saturday / Sunday 10 AM - 2 PM            

Mail your checks (ICNA Dallas) to the following address with a foot note as "Food Pantry" 

ICNA Dallas
220 E. Spring Valley Rd
Richardson, TX 75081.

Or Donate Online 
 
                         
           
 
~*Zahid Hussain*~
  
ICNA Relief USA ~ Dallas Chapter
Operations Manager - DFW Area
7317 Holly Hill Drive, Dallas, TX 75231.