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Blessed dates for Syrian Refugees

$31,975

raised of $30,000 USD goal

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This campaign will collect all funds raised by January 18, 2017 at 6:45 AM EDT

Sending Nutritious Dates to Syrian Refugees


Update - 20,000 Families Fed

With all your help and support we raised enough to distribute 45 tons of dates which fed over 20,000 families during Ramadan! Please continue your support so that we can distribute even more dates!


Offer A Date and Save A Life!

Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are starving. A numerous number of children and older people have died in the last a few weeks because of lack of food. "Syrians are suffering and dying across the country because starvation is being used as a weapon of war by both the Syrian government and armed groups," said Philip Luther, the Middle East director for Amnesty International.

It is, in away, a cruel forced fasting! We need to help these innocent civilians break the fast in order to gain energy on their way to achieving a healthy life again. in the spirit of the fast-approaching fasting month of Ramadan and following on the steps of our beloved prophet we will offer the starved and hungry people a very rich and nutritious Algerian dates.



Noour Inc and United Muslim Relief are joining hands to provide, deliver and distribute nutritious dates to the starved people of Syria. 

Noour inc. is the largest Deglet Noour dates importer, and distributor in the United State. Its Date farms and packing houses are located in southern Algeria.

United Muslim Relief is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. It is one of the fastest growing NGO’s in the United States. 

Dates for Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Syria

Our goal is to raise enough funds to cover the cost of six 40 ft containers of dates (market value of each container is $20,000 plus shipping charges). Using Noour's own packing houses in Algeria, we will be able to reduce the cost of each container to less than $25,000 shipping charges included). We can deliver all these containers in about 30 days to refugee camps in Turkey and then to refugee camps inside Syria.

Why Dates?

  • Offering dates to the hungry will bring much needed physical help to them and unlimited blessings to you.
  • So many rewards for offering Iftar to the fasting in Ramadan…...

( من فطر صائماً كان له مثل أجره غير أنه لا ينقص من أجر الصائم شيئاً ) 

The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever gives iftaar to one who is fasting will have a reward like his, without that detracting from the reward of the fasting person in the slightest.”

  • Just Imagine the reward you achieve in offering Iftar to the people who are forced to fast because of lack of food…….

في حديث مسلم عَنْ عَائِشَةَ -رضي الله عنها- قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ- صلى الله عنه وسلم :"يَا عَائِشَةُ بَيْتٌ لَا تَمْرَ فِيهِ جِيَاعٌ أَهْلُهُ، قَالَهَا مَرَّتَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثًا." ، هذا الحديث يتضمن إشارة بينة على دور التمر في منع الجوع، فالحقيقة العلمية تثبت أن للتمر أثرا كبيرا في رفع منسوب سكر الدم (الجلوكوز) ،  والذي يمتاز بسرعة امتصاصه في الجهاز الهضمي، الأمر الذي يظهر الحكمة في الإفطار على التمر لتعويض الجسم الانخفاض الحاصل في سكر الدم خلال ساعات الصيام.

In a Hadith narrated by Muslim, Prophet Mohamed ( PBUH) said to his wife Ayesha: "a house that has no dates is a house that has hungry people ." He repeated two or three times.This Hadith underscores the benefits of dates in overcoming hunger.

  • One of the many physical benefits of breaking the fast with dates is that our body benefits from the date’s high level of natural sugars. Dates are an ideal and healthy choice for fueling an empty body.
  • Dates are easily digested, making them a quick source of energy and nutrients.
  • Dates are also an excellent source of fiber, sugar, magnesium, potassium, and have carbohydrates which will aid the body in maintaining health. 



How You Can Help

# Imagine only $20 (cost of one USA meal) of your money can feed a family of seven for about 13 days.

# Your $50 can feed the same family for about one month.

# Your $100 can feed the family for about two months.

# While you can the same family for a whole year by donating only $600.

# Ten starving families  (70 human beings) can be fed for a whole year for only $6000.

## Please donate whatever you can and save a life!




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Updates 10

Gaddoor Saidi7 years ago

www.launchgood.com/dates2017

Asalamualikum,

Brs/Srs

I hope you are enjoying theses last 10 days of this blessed month of Ramdan.

May Allah accept your fasting,prayers,charity and other good deeds.

Soon the month of Ramdan will depart leaving us with whatever good deeds we earned in these blessed days of the holy month.

Please add to your score board of good deeds, helping the helpless people of Syria.

Here is your chance again:

https://www.launchgood.com/project/blessed_ramdan_dates_for_syrian_refugees_2017#/

www.launchgood.com/dates2017


May Allah reward abundantly,

JAK,

Wasalam,

Dr. G. Saidi






 

Gaddoor Saidi7 years ago

www.launchgood.com/dates2017

Asalamualikum,

Brs/Srs

Ramdan Mubarak to you and your family. May Allah accept your fasting, prayers, charity and other good deeds.

Alhamdillilah , we are back again in trying to help the helpless. Unfortunately, the Syrian problem is nowhere close to a resolution. More refugees... More suffering...almost everyday.

I ask you again in this blessed month to join me in securing & delivering dates to our Syrian brothers and sisters in the refugees camps along the Turkish and Jordanian borders.

https://www.launchgood.com/project/blessed_ramdan_dates_for_syrian_refugees_2017#/

or go to:

www.launchgood.com/dates2017

We actually need the charity much more than they do. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said “Give the Sadaqah without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.” (Tirmidhi #1887).

Remember:

“The likeness of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allaah, is as the likeness of a grain (of corn); it grows seven ears, and each ear has a hundred grains. Allaah gives manifold increase to whom He wills. And Allaah is All-Sufficient for His creatures’ needs, All-Knower."

May Allah reward you in this Dunia and in the hereafter.

Wasalam,

Your brother,

Dr. G. Saidi

Gaddoor Saidi7 years ago

Thank you and May Allah bless you & you family

Friends,

We are just 14 hours away from closing out the current new old campaign to support our displaced Syrian brothers and sisters.

Alhamdulilah, we have exceeded our current target of $30,000. Jasak Allah Khiran for all your generous contributions. 

Obviously, you can still contribute towards the campaign beyond the current stated goal before the end of the campaign later today. As you know ,the need is much bigger than these limited stated goals.

InshAllah, we will be back with a new similar campaign before the upcoming month of Ramdan.

Thank you and May Allah bless you & your family. May Allah grant you Ajar in your way to Aljannah! Ameen!

Dr. G. Saidi


Gaddoor Saidi7 years ago

Update - 20,000 Families Fed With all your help and support

Update - 20,000 Families Fed With all your help and support we raised enough to distribute 20 tons of dates which fed over 20,000 families during Ramadan! Please continue your support so that we can distribute even more dates!

Please do not forget the Syrian refugees with your last 2016 tax deductible donations.

With your continuous generous help the Syrian people will overcome the hunger and endure for a better tomorrow.

Sadaqah (voluntary charity) is  a proof of one’s eeman (faith).

The Prophet (S.A.W.S)  said: “Cleanliness is half of faith. Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah) fills the scale. SubhanAllah (Glory be to Allah) and Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah) fill up what is between the heavens and the earth. Prayer is a light. Charity is proof (of one’s faith). Endurance is a brightness and the Qur’an is a proof on your behalf or against you. All men go out early in the morning and sell themselves, thereby setting themselves free or destroying themselves.” (Muslim, 432)

JAK,

Dr. G. Saidi

Gaddoor Saidi7 years ago

Aleppo is burning !

Aleppo is burning ! more than 50,000 are still trapped inside the city. Thousands more are running for their life towards Turkish border. Government forces and their allied Militias are killing people and preventing them from leaving to the safe areas outside the city. The situation is very bleak! No food! No shelter! No medical help!  

NGO's  are contacting us for help. Dates and water are enough to sustain people till the international community mobilizes its resources.

With your former donations we were able to deliver containers of dates to the refugees inside Syria.

We are calling on you again!

The desperate people of Aleppo are counting on your generous help again.

It has been narrated that our beloved prophet  Mohamed ( PBUH) said:

"....Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgment. Whosoever alleviates [the lot of] a needy person, Allah will alleviate [his lot] in this world and the next. Whosoever shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the next. Allah will aid a slave [of His] so long as the slave aids his brother. ...."

Children, women, the sick and elderly of Syria needs us NOW to alleviate their griefs.

Our collective help is needed more than any other time. Please donate generously!

JAK

Gaddoor Saidi8 years ago

Photos of dates distribution inside Syria

Dear friends,

Some of your funded dates being distributed inside Syria . Alhamdillilah!


https://www.facebook.com/SyrianForum/posts/832614863540133

Wasalam,

Dr. Gaddoor Saidi 

Gaddoor Saidi8 years ago

Update

Update

WOW !! Throughout this campaign, We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of so many donors who have come together to make a huge impact on the lives of the Syrian refugees. In response to this generosity, We have raised the goal of this campaign several times... We have accumulated close to 400 donors MashAllah. We are very close to our final goal of $25,000.

Three (40 ft each) containers of the finest Algerian dates have already been delivered to the Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey and inside Syria. Your generous contributions were a major part of this effort. We are very proud of all who contributed regardless of the quantity contributed be it $1000 or even $1.

The final bill of the three containers including delivery charges exceeded $125,000.

Alhamdillilah! We are almost done covering all said charges due to your generous contributions and other private contributions that were collected outside this platform. 

I would like on your behalf to thank our friends at our favored charity organization namely United Muslim Relief (UMR)  for their generous contributions in matching all money collected by you.  

May Allah accept your fasting, prayers, charity and other good deeds. May Allah grant you Al Jannah!

Please donot forget to pray for all refugees displaced everywhere!

Please pray for all of us!


Wasalam,

Dr. Gaddoor Saidi


Gaddoor Saidi8 years ago

Last 15 days…….Recharge your spirit…….Ride with us to the final goal line.

The blessed month of Ramdan is past halfway already! Fasting days go so fast…..The count down to the end of the this blessed month is on! 

Recharge your Ramdan spirit by giving more to the Syrian refugees !

Soon the month will be over but your good deeds will be there for you when you need them most in the hereafter.

Please complete the journey with us towards achieving our goal in the next few days.

May Allah reward you greatly for your generous contributions.

JAK,

Wasalam,

Dr. G. Saidi

Gaddoor Saidi8 years ago

update

Asalamualikum,

Friends of the needy,

Alhamdillilah by the grace of Allah, We have reached our initial target of $15,000 . Thank you/ Jasak Allah Khiran  to all of you.

One container of dates is already in the sea heading to your brothers and sisters in the refugee camps. 

Project management decided to extend the campaign to the end of Ramadan inshAllah with a new target of $20,000. More money is needed for shipping and other distribution costs and the possibility of sending more containers of dates.  Please share within your network and encourage your friends to be part of this nobel cause.

Remembering always,

( من فطر صائماً كان له مثل أجره غير أنه لا ينقص من أجر الصائم شيئاً ) 

The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever gives iftaar to one who is fasting will have a reward like his, without that detracting from the reward of the fasting person in the slightest.” 

JAK,

Dr. G. Saidi

Gaddoor Saidi8 years ago

Thank you. We are almost there! Dates ready to be shipped.

Friends,

On behalf of the hungry and displaced Syrian refugees, I salute you.

Thanks to your generous contributions, we are more than 2/3 of the way into achieving our goal. 

Good news to share with you: Dates have already been packed in Algeria and ready to be shipped out.

May I ask you to please run with us for the last mile. Spread the word and share the campaign with family, relatives and friends now..

One more small push and will be there. Just imagine a hungry refugee breaking his fast on your dates and praying for you.

Ramadan is just around the corner and closing in very fast!

May God bless you & your loved ones.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. G. Saidi







  

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