Project ID: APPEC-2014-04-29
Proposed by: Adnan Khan Niazi (University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg France)
Location: Layyah and Mianwali
Contact: adnan1753 AT yahoo DOT com

Summary of the project:
This project is to provide food for 1 year to families who lost their working person recently (orphans and widows) by providing them wheat sufficient for 1 full year. We are running this project successfully for last few years. Those who belong to villages can imagine the importance of wheat for poor families. It is the one and only source of food for them. If they have wheat flour than they can eat with something.
Funds needed: 1100 euros
End Date: Preferably till 20 May 2014
Number of families who need help: 6
Number of persons who will be benefited for 1 year: 32
Wheat needed: 37 Stacks (3700 Kg)
Expected Price of wheat in May: Rs. 3500/Stack (Now it is around Rs. 4300/stack)
Religious importance of the project:
Narrated Sahl bin Sa’d (RA):
The Prophet said, “I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides food for him, will be in Paradise with me like this,” putting his index and middle fingers together.
(Sahi Bukhari, The book of good manners, Chapter: The superiority of the one who looks after an orphan)
Narrated Safwan bin Salim (RA):
The Prophet said “The one who looks after and works for a widow and for a poor person, is like a warrior fighting for Allah’s Cause or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all the night.” Narrated Abu Huraira that the Prophet said as above.
(Sahi Bukhari, The book of good manners (adab), Chapter: The superiority of the one who looks after the widows)
Details of the project:
We were running this project for last few years with the help of some HEC scholars mostly from Strasbourg. But know most of them have been shifted to Pakistan so cannot continue. We need help from APPEC and you people to continue this project.
In this project we help the families who recently lost the person who was earning for the family leaving behind the widows and orphans. The life becomes very hard if the main working person is lost especially in first few years after his death. For this project we look around us for the orphans and widows who really need our help.
As wheat is the main food in Pakistan and it is cheap during May. We help these families to buy wheat in May for the whole year so that they have something to eat all along the year.
Every year they are different families as the others somehow manage themselves in a year time. You will be amazed to know that with small amount of money, we are providing food to many families for the whole year. This small contribution is a real blessing for them. The assessment of need is based on our experience through this project, opinion of some people in that area and asking from the affected families themselves.
In this year we want to help these families:
First Family: Family of Gul Muhammad (RIP) from Chhidroo, Mianwali
Number of person: 1 widow, 4 orphans
Elder child is around 10 years old
No real source of income. Gul Muhammad was a daily wages worker. The children are so young that the widow can’t go out for any kind of work. No one in the family to take care the orphans.
They need 8 sacks. (one sack=100 Kg)
Second Family: Family of Noor Khan (RIP) from Chhidroo, Mianwali
Number of person: 1 widow 80 years old, her daughter (divorced) about 40 years old with one orphan
No real source of income. They have some land but other people have occupied this land and now they are unable get it back from them.
They need 5 sacks.
Third Family: Family of Shafa ullah (RIP) from Chhidroo, Mianwali
Number of person: 1 widow, 4 orphans, her mother in law (also widow)
Elder child is around 10 years old.
After the death of Shafa ullah, his widow and her mother are trying to earn something by working around in the fields but it’s seasonal. Cropping of wheat, picking of cotton etc but not sufficient.
They need 8 sacks.
Fourth Family: Family of Muhammad Younas (RIP) from Fateh Pur, Layyah
Number of person: 1 widow, 4 orphans
Elder daughter is married and the marriage of second was planned but he died before this marriage. It will be in coming few months.
No real source of income. Younas Marhoom was earning by running a Motor Rikhshaw.
They need 6 sacks.
Fifth Family: Family of Muhammad Ramzan (RIP) from Fateh Pur, Layyah
Number of person: 1 widow, 3 orphans (girls), one son who is married and has 5 children
The widow (Nazeeran bibi ) is working in the peoples home to earn for living. She has a son who was supporting the family but recently he got an accident and now his legs can’t bear his own weight. Her daughter in law is also working with her in people’s home. But money they earn not sufficient for the medicines of the son, and for living of family members.
They need 6 sacks. (They will manage the rest i.e. 9 sacks by themselves)
Sixth Family: Family of Nawab Khan (RIP) from Chhidroo, Mianwali
Number of person: 2 orphans
Trying to earn something by working around in the fields but its seasonal. Cropping of wheat, picking of cotton etc but not sufficient.
They need 4 sacks.
Please contribute as much as you can. Your small contributions of 5, 10, 20 and 50 euros will help us to feed these orphans and widows for the whole year.
If some one wants more informations or want to contact directly with any of these families, feel free to ask me and my email address (adnan1753@yahoo.com or phone number 0033665932923).

Donations Eligibility:
This project is eligible to receive Zakat, Sadaqah and other forms of donations.

Fund Raising:
Target: 1100 EUR

Deadline: till completion

Current status of total funds:
EUR 1015.55 (update: 19.05.2014) [Funds released: EUR 1015.50 (on 20.05.2014) + PKR 15000.00] [Remaining funds: EUR 0.05]
EUR 1006.14 (update: 17.05.2014)
EUR 688.14 (update: 14.05.2014)
EUR 638.14 (update: 12.05.2014)
EUR 619.07 (update: 08.05.2014)
EUR 119.07 (update: 04-05-2014)
EUR 69.07 (update: 01.05.2014)
EUR 19.07 (update: 30.04.2014)
EUR 00.00 (update: 29.04.2014)

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