بريطانيا: حملة إسلامية لمساعدة المحتاجين في الشتاء

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعلن اتحاد الجمعيات الإسلامية في "بريدبريدج" بالعاصمة البريطانية "لندن" - عن انطلاق حملة جمع التبرعات والمساعدات؛ من ملابس وأطعمة لمساعدة الفقراء والمشردين، بعد أن حققت حملة العام الماضي نجاحًا واسعًا.

ويؤكد "محمد آصف" - المدير التنفيذي للاتحاد - أن أزمة المشردين تعد مشكلة كبرى بالمنطقة مما يستوجب مواجهتها؛ حيث يشارك المسلمون في التصدي لهذه المشكلة بجمع التبرعات، والمبادرة في بذل الصدقات، وإخراج الزكاة، في تطبيق عملي لتعاليم الإسلام، ومتابعة النجاح السابق الذي حصد آلاف الجنيهات الإسترلينية بحملة أخرى وشيكة النجاح؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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UK Muslims Prepare for Winter Appeal

Muslim community leaders in the east London Borough of Redbridge have launched a campaign to collect clothes and food for the homeless after the huge success of last year’s campaign.

“The issue of homelessness continues to be a major problem in the borough of Redbridge as well as nationally,” Mohammed Asif, the chairman of the Federation of Redbridge Muslim Organizations (FORMO), told Ilford Recorder on Thursday, December 5.

“This has been made a further challenge in the current economic climate with austerity measures taking their toll on ordinary households.”

Announcing the launch of this year’s campaign, Asif said that the new items will be collected over the coming weeks before being taken to the Salvation Army in Clements Road, Ilford.

The items collected will include clothes, toiletries and tinned food.

The items will be collected over the coming weeks before being taken to the Salvation Army in Clements Road, Ilford.

The FORMO campaign is not the first.

Last year, the federation collected two truckloads of goods as well as raising almost £2,000 for rough sleepers.

Witnessing an increase in homelessness and the success of the campaign last year, the Muslim leaders were inspired to repeat the campaign.

Britain is home to a sizable Muslim minority of nearly 2.7 million, mostly of Indian, Pakistani and Bengali backgrounds.

In July 2012, a report by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex found that Muslims are the most likely of all groups to be identified with the concept of ‘Britishness.’

In 2011, think tank Demo found that Muslims in the United Kingdom are more patriotic than the rest of population.

Responding to the statement “I am proud to be a British citizen”, 83% of Muslims said they are proud of being British.

The percentage came higher than average across the population which scored only 79%.