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Ramadan personal care packages made by pre-K teachers and students at Al Falah Academy
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Ramadan Mubarak to all! Alhamdullilah, we would like to thank pre-K teachers from Al Falah Academy sister Maajida and sister Sanda and the pre-K students who made personal care packages for families in need in our local community. These will be delivered the first few days of Ramadan, In sha’ Allah.
Throughout the year we have families who need these items on a monthly basis so we know how grateful and appreciative all the families who will receive them will be. May Allah Subhana wa Ta’Ala bless and reward both sisters, all parents and anyone who donated items for these personal care packages and all the children for their efforts in making them.
Madinah Food Pantry & Family Services Pre-Ramadhan Food Drive 2018
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Madinah Food Pantry & Family Services Pre-Ramadhan Food Drive 2018
Insha’Allah, in preparation for the blessed month of Ramadhan we are starting our food drive early so our pantry will be filled and better able to assist families in need. Alhamdullilah, Madinah Food Pantry delivers food year around to Muslim families in need and some items are very quickly depleted once they are donated. Please see our list of items most needed and if you are able to donate, please contact us. Insha’Allah, we can also accept cash donations that will go towards food purchases through PayPal on our website.
Canned food: Soups (vegetable, tomato or mushroom), tuna fish, salmon, diced tomatoes, spaghetti sauce.
Proteins: Peanut butter, beans (pinto, kidney, split peas, black, lima or garbanzo).
Grains: Basmati rice, pasta (spaghetti, elbow macaroni), flour (all purpose or self-rising).
Oil: Vegetable or olive oil.
Juices: 100% (canned or bottled or in cartons) –apple juice, orange juice, mango juice or grape juice.
Fruit: Fruit cups, dried fruits, raisins, dates.
Tea: Green, herb (peppermint, spearmint, chamomile), ginger tea, black tea and coffee.
Sweeteners: Sugar, raw honey, syrup.
Cereal and breakfast foods: Cereal (all types), granola, raisin bran, sooji, grits, pancake mix and oatmeal, strawberry jam, apple jelly and grape jelly.
Wholesome children’s snacks: Granola bars, nuts, trail mixes, graham or animal crackers, pudding or Jell-O, fruit snacks, crackers (unsalted), cheese crackers, sugar free cookies and snacks.
Diabetic foods: Sugar free foods (jams, jellies, snacks, desserts).
Low sodium foods: Foods that contain no salt or are low sodium foods (vegetables, crackers, soups).
Milk: Evaporated milk, almond milk, coconut milk, rice or hemp milk.
Condiments: Mayonnaise, salad dressing, hot sauce, or salsa.
Spring water (please no distilled or purified water).
Bread: Whole wheat or pita.
Produce: Onions, potatoes, oranges, bananas, tomatoes, watermelon, mangos, eggs and butter.
Meats: Halal beef, goat or lamb, lunch meats. Fish (salmon or tilapia).
Personal care baskets made by our local Muslim Girl Scouts
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Alhamdulillah! We would like to thank our local Muslim Girl Scouts from the North Fulton County area (Marietta through Alpharetta) for their hard work and efforts in making 24 personal care baskets for our local seniors, homeless and disabled families under the guidance of their troop leaders Rasha Hassan and Mona Shamma.
These personal care baskets were delivered to families who greatly appreciated them and all filled with items that the families needed. Jazak Allah Khair again for doing this very worthwhile project to assist our families. May Allah Subhana wa Ta’Ala bless and reward you all.
MONTHLY SPONSORSHIPS NEEDED FOR MADINAH FOOD PANTRY
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Hunger remains as one of our greatest social problems (if not the greatest social problem) globally. In the United States, it is hard for some of us to fathom that there are people who are hungry or food insecure on a daily basis. Through our mobile food pantry services at Madinah Food Pantry we see firsthand the situations many families are in currently in which they must struggle each month to get food to survive since we started our mobile food pantry service in the spring of 2011. Many of the families we serve no longer receive food stamps, or if they receive so little food stamps (sometimes as little as $30 per month) that they must have food packages delivered monthly just to sustain themselves. Many of our local seniors, disabled and widows are expected to live on these very meager amounts of food stamps each month. Our single parent families have also seen reductions in what they receive through food stamps as well and are in need of food items to feed their families (many have large families). This situation is NOT getting any better but worse. We are seeing dramatic increases in elders needing food, homelessness among Muslim families (especially senior sisters and single parent families) and refugees in our area needing food.
We encourage all who can to sponsor Madinah Food Pantry on a monthly basis, In sha’ Allah. You can sponsor for $25, $50, $75, $100, $200 $300, $400 or $500 per month ($100 per month is $25 per week and $500 per month is $125 per week). Monthly donations can be set up through PayPal on our website at www.madinahfoodpantry.org or through direct deposit for the Madinah Food Pantry bank account through Bank of America. With these much-needed funds it will help tremendously with the following:
Purchase of food items needed (these are mostly food items we don’t receive from donations which many families need such as fresh produce, milk, eggs, foods for families on restrictive diets—no salt, no sugar foods and foods for those with allergies;
Crisis situations when different families we serve need assistance due to homelessness, disconnection of bills, death in the family, hospitalizations, etc.…;
Gas funds for our travel expenses to make deliveries (we travel up to 75 miles from our location in Lawrenceville) to deliver food packages each month so our expenses are much greater most pantries since we are a mobile food pantry.
Below is a testimonial from a single disabled sister with 4 teenage children that we have worked with for the past 4 years through our mobile food pantry service to assure you that your donations are indeed making a difference in the lives of others:
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