2022 Annual Report

Our Partners

Still, the global need for urgent humanitarian relief has rocketed to unprecedented levels.

THE HUMANITARIAN TRAGEDY

• 362 Million Impoverished

• 240 Million in Critical Daily Need

THE DISPLACEMENT CRISIS

THE CHILD REFUGEE CATASTROPHE

THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING:

HIGHEST HUNGER SPOTS

Such is a gift that you have certainly given to thousands each year through Zakat Foundation's multiple vocational, skill, placement, and husbandry furnishing, support, and training programs for widows, vulnerable adults, refugees, and orphans coming into adulthood.

Yet it has grown increasingly difficult for people who can and want to earn but cannot find work or cannot gain proper employment due to preventive circumstances and lack of training opportunity.

THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING:

Regional Impact of Work Deficit

Cooperatives & Animal Husbandry

Mating pairs of dairy livestock put wealth at the fingertips of farmers and rural household heads, while creating, equipping, and training cooperative and family associations creates jobs and multiplies incomes, especially for women.

Yet the prevalence and rampant growth of children losing their fathers, mothers, and God­given right of a just, home-community familial integration is far and away the defining calamity - and indictment - of humanity in our time.

The world's orphan and separated child population now totals an inconceivable 267 million children - a number that would make orphans the fifth largest nation on earth.

Consider for a moment the human self-portrait (and that of our Ummah, since so many of these children are of us) that these underestimated reports tell us:

The Orphan Catastrophe

Covid-19 Mortality

The Price of Orphanhood

There is no limit on sadaqah in Islam - save that it be from the lawful, for the lawful, and given with the intent to seek the Face of God, meaning it is bequeathed only for His sake and pleasure. Whatever good thing one may "freeze" in its functional giving to help others on earth - human, other creatures, or creation - can be a sadaqah jariyah.

In our time, building mosques (often with schools and water wells) for communities, especially remote, poor ones, that have none, or digging water wells and providing sanitation for similar populations - these are the most common forms of sadaqah jariyah.

Indeed, your charity ever-flowing washed over more than half a million truly needful people in the world, and God willing it will continue to do so in perpetuity.

Mosques, Schools, Community Center/Orphanages Built

Water Wells, Hand Pumps, and Water Systems

Mosque Construction

In 10 impoverished countries, among the most needful and grateful communities - in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, and Uganda - your charitable gifts on behalf of loved ones constructed, or are in the process of erecting, purpose-built mosques for the communal gathering, worship, spiritual edification, and celebrations of tens of thousands of men and women, boys and girls, many in remote regions whose prior prayer spaces were simply open, outside areas with tent canopies, or who had to travel far to pray in a mosque.

Mosques also form vital centers of literacy and learning and safe spaces of wholesome assembly for a community's youth. They exert a profoundly positive force of family harmony, neighborly connection, and communal self­organization strengthening social cohesion and brotherhood. In addition, most of these mosques have associated water wells with clean running water that serve the entire community's healthful hydration, hygiene, and sanitary living. The mosques you build, moreover, are increasingly environmentally green, employing efficient (often solar) energy, sustainable materials, with maximal water-saving usage, and managed air quality.

One who builds a mosque on earth, God builds for that person a palace in paradise. So our Prophet, on him be peace, exhorted us. The number of mosques needed in rural and remote communities today has never been greater or more important. Build your palace.

Schools Built

CAMBODIA

Your sadaqah jariyah, ongoing charity, built the Sister Yaghmour Academy in the remote, rural village of Trea in Tboung Khmom Province, inaugurated in January 2022. The three-classroom, fully furnished school has 120 almost evenly split male and female students, additionally providing educational benefit to another 160 in the community. Before Yaghmour Academy, students attended school in an open space beneath raised house of the village's lone teacher.

They sat on ground mats, within thin plastic frame barriers as walls for privacy. "Today, my friends and I are thrilled with having a school and sitting in its classrooms," said Tasnim, a student. "It has been our dream and the dream of our parents. We send profound thanks to our donors and pray for you."

RWANDA & THE PHILIPPINES

You also built a vocational center in Rwanda for girls who have opted out of high school to begin acquiring employable skills in six-month courses. In addition, the school also has a two-year Quran studies program. In the Philippines, your perpetual charity constructed the communal Education Center in the Darra Lund Khawar Village for both youth and adult learners. For the village young people, in particular, it is an alternative education center for more expansive studies, since they mostly attend weekend government-supported vocational centers for skills training.

Community & Orphan Centers

GHANA

Many communities in Ghana have no common place to meet, study, and carry out other important social activities, including physical activity for health.Your sadaqah jariyah gifts built the Multi-Purpose Community Center for the Bamboi community in the Savana Region, directly benefitting at least 4,500. It holds (I ) a 300-seat capacity multipurpose auditorium, that also accommodates congregational prayers, and hosts state examinations for the Junior High School students of IO surrounding communities; (2) a library; (3) a conference/indoor game hall; (4) an urgent care area; and (5) a gymnasium for both exercise and physical therapy.

PAKISTAN

Zakat Foundation donors have long supported the Khubaib Foundation orphan projects in Sargodah, specifically its girls' orphanage and school. Orphan girl numbers have sharply increased with Pakistan's catastrophic climate-change ­calamities, creating a special need for new accommodations, particularly for the Khubaib Girls College. The new nearly 3,000 sq. ft. facility that your ongoing charity is now building will create additional dormitory and living space for 60 girls.

Water Wells & Hand Pumps

Zakat Foundation is now a recognized humanitarian leader in providing clean water access to hundreds of thousands every year. Your ongoing charity, sadaqah jariyah, makes this possible, including digging 688 motorized submersible pump and hand pump water wells that gushed with the blessing of fresh water for more than 368,000 in 2021-22. In hundreds of communities that previously had no access to pumped water, often rural and remote - where thousands of human miles a year are walked, often by women, to a water source to haul thousands of pounds of water for daily use back home - your running charity has eased the burden of tens of thousands of families in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Ivor Coast, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, the Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, and Uganda. And the blessings flow daily to your loved ones and await them in the Hereafter.

Water Filtration

GHANA

Many communities in Ghana have no common place to meet, study, and carry out other important social activities, including physical activity for health.Your sadaqah jariyah gifts built the Multi-Purpose Community Center for the Bamboi community in the Savannah Region, directly benefitting at least 4,500. It holds (I) a 300-seat capacity multipurpose auditorium, that also accommodates congregational prayers.

That means a mere 3%+ of the water Gaza's 2.37 million people have access to is drinkable, leading to endemic levels of waterborne diseases, cancer, and a raft of other illnesses.

In the face of this, Zakat Foundation of America has funded - with your 2021-22 ongoing charity, sadaqah jariyah - a Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System that provides a sustainable source of clean and safe water, as well as enough electricity to power IO preschools across all five Ghana governorates with basic services. At least 1,079 children under age 5 - including children with disabilities - and their 85 teachers and staff benefit directly from your precious charity on behalf of your loved ones.

In addition, your donations have outfitted the Reverse Osmosis system, and each of the preschools, with solar panels that ventilate, light, and run the electronic devices of the schools, significantly reducing operating costs. Thousands of hearts flow with gratitude for your compassionate provision for these children and, God willing, pray for you each day.

NEPAL

In impoverished rural Nepal, few have access to treated water sources or sanitation services.You sent your sadaqah jariyah, charity ever-flowing, in 2021-22 to change this reality for children at two orphanages and another school. Your funding through Zakat Foundation - working with its humanitarian partner Millat Educational and Welfare Society Nepal - installed three water filter plants at the Muslim Orphanage Nepal for Girls, the Muslim Orphanage Nepal for Boys, and at the Nawa Jyoti English School in lnaruwa to safeguard the health of 500 children, and to ease the half-day job everyday of family and staff members retrieving water. That is a gift that will stream to the benefit of your passed loved ones into the next life.

Independent Auditor's Report