The aim of the social welfare field is to enhance quality of life and empower individuals within the community. The current focus of our projects is the socially weak and vulnerable. These sectors of the community are typically socially marginalised and suffer from lack of empowerment. By improving their living standards and via community awareness of these groups' needs these projects will enable the community to have greater access to equal social rights thus enabling specific social groups to engage more fully in British society.

Contact: Sara Kabil, Abu Baker Elbanna
 

Many Muslims are put off the concept of fostering children in the UK due to the many rules and complications regarding this issue in Islam.  Adoption, in its literal sense is haram, however fostering is not and many Muslims do not know this. The issue is that there are many Muslim orphans out  there who need to be taken care of and brought up by a Muslim family in a healthy Muslim community, but there are not enough Muslim families willing to raise them. This results in Muslim children being adopted/fostered at a very young age by non-Muslim families and are brought up knowing nothing about their religion or background, thus growing up as non-Muslims.

Our scheme aims to raise awareness of fostering issues within the  Muslim community by working with mosques, community groups, voluntary organisations and Islamic institutions.

We also intend to run a campaign to inform Muslims of the rules etc. and linking up anyone who would consequently be interested in fostering a child. This will help increase the number of parents/families that are willing to become foster carers and hence helping to lessen the problem.

It is also imperative that we work closely with leading bodies in the fostering field to ensure that the Muslim voice is heard. The long-term goal of the project is to establish a Muslim adoption/fostering home.

To begin after Ramadan.
 

This project involves committed and caring individuals visiting an elderly home/hospice to spend time with elderly members of the community and children's homes to spend time with children who have lost their parents within the community.
As more and more people live longer, the numbers of those with both hearing and sight loss grows. This renders older people vulnerable and adds to their feelings of loneliness and isolation. With this project we intend to create regular visits to cultivate friendships with the elderly and help provide them with an emotional link that is often missing from their lives.

Similarly, Children's homes are usually one of the first stops on the foster care journey for many children, or it could be a stop in-between different foster homes. Children's homes are often looking for volunteers to do many different duties. Some may include simple tasks such as wrapping gifts, sorting through donations, reading to the children, or even playing games. This project intends to help these children feel that they are part of a bigger family and that they have a friend that they can trust and rely on.

Aiming to begin during Ramadan.
 

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