Join us as we work to provide people in Puerto Rico food and water!

Me and a group of 45 people will embark on a journey to Puerto Rico.  We will be doing an adventure challenge across the island.  But our real challenge will be to help those going to bed hungry.  Help us raise funds for those in need in Puerto Rico.  

Sponsor a family in need with a food box. Help restore hope to our neighbors in need, these families need our support. They are struggling due to disaster, poverty, or job loss. Islamic Relief has been supporting the island by rebuilding homes after disasters, providing school supplies and building water infrastructures. 

I plan with the rest of TEAM BLUE to continue the work. Inshallah I hope to pack these boxes myself in Puerto Rico, and not on any day, but on a Friday. Know that on the best day of the week as I am packing this box, I will be praying for you, and so will the whole team, and the congregation at Friday prayer. 

By donating to my cause you can help ease the burden of hunger for families in Puerto Rico. Send a family a nutritious food box by donating today.

Learn more below and support today!

Why Puerto Rico?

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and part of the United States. It has struggled with poverty long before the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 43% of Puerto Rico’s population, live in poverty, majority of them children. The island has also endured multiple disasters, the most recent being Hurricane Maria and COVID-19. These hardships have weakened Puerto Rico’s economy, infrastructure and health systems and have left vulnerable groups even more susceptible to poverty. The country’s vulnerability to severe hurricanes has perpetuated poverty in Puerto Rico. The most recent hurricane was also the most destructive in nearly a century. 

Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico in 2017, and its destruction created lasting consequences. In addition to destroying thousands of homes and causing infrastructural damage, Maria wiped out about 80% of the island’s agriculture. Immediately following the hurricane, 100% of the island lost power for months and lacked access to necessary items including water, food, medicine and fuel.   Between the repairs of its infrastructure and the return of tourism, this has helped boost the economy.  Hence why we chose to visit Puerto Rico, just being here doing our adventure is helping the local economy.  

Puerto Ricans have demonstrated remarkable resilience and current efforts like this are helping to improve this situation. That's why we picked to go to the beautiful island of Puerto Rico.  We want to raise awareness and also help feed families in need. But we need your help.

Efforts by nonprofits like Islamic Relief have also helped bring attention to the issues, and have helped with short-term and long term solutions. Islamic Relief has been in Puerto Rico, rebuilding homes, supporting a clinic by building a water infrastructure to provide clean water, distributing food and clean water, and also handing out school kits to children before the school year.     

ONE IN EVERY NINE still go to bed on an empty stomach each night. Every day too many men and women across Puerto Rico struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal.  Even more – one in three – suffer from some form of malnutrition.  

Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is one of the great challenges of our time. Not only do the consequences of not enough – or the wrong – food cause suffering and poor health, they also slow progress in many other areas of development like education and employment.

Every day, Islamic Relief works to bring us closer to a zero hunger world. With our humanitarian food assistance, we provide nutritious food to those in urgent need. Meanwhile our programs address the root causes of hunger, building the resilience of communities, so we don’t need to keep saving the same lives each year.

I will not eradicate hunger on this trip, but imagine the life me and you can change, even for a short while for that family we support.   You never know if its our food box that might save a life.  

Please DONATE today and help me not only reach my goal, but change a life!