The Ramadan Trust Initiative has given out 200 cartons of Spaghetti and the sum of 20,000.00 naira each to seventy (70) orphans to start small-scale businesses as a means of sustaining their lives.
The Executive Chairman of the initiatives Professor Ahmed Ibrahim Yakasai disclosed this while presenting the food items and the money to the seventy (70) orphans and their children held at the office of the initiative in Alfurqan Mosque, Nassarawa GRA Kano state.
According to Ibrahim, the donation is made for them to start small-scale businesses so that in a year they can be able to support others.
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He said ten (10) centers would receive twenty (20) cartons of spaghetti each totaling about two hundred (200) while another three (3) Centers were fed with finished food daily during the Ramadan period.
The chairman said the initiative would also procure uniforms for primary and secondary school children to Carter for their education and support them in their daily lives all to support less privileged in society.
Yakasai assured that the association will continue to work in all the twelve months of the year unlike previously when it worked only during the Ramadan period.
In a remark, the chairman of the board of trustees of the initiative and chief Imam Alfurqan Juma’at Mosque Professor (Dr) Bashir Aliyu Umar highlighted different verses of the Holly Qur’an which encourages Muslims to support less privilege in society as a means of upholding the teaches of the holly prophet Muhammad(S.A.W).
According to Bashir, Islam encourages wealthy individuals to support less privilege in society, a development that promotes peace among people in various local communities and the country at large.
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“If we are gathering in a place of warships like our historic mosque here in Alfurqan, and we are helping each other, then we are upholding the teaching of the prophet Muhammad,” said Dr. Bashir.
“You were chosen to benefit from this gesture not to change your bed sheets or cook food for your children, but it’s mainly for you to start a business with a small amount of capital, whopping that in some years to come you have a strong capital with big busses to support others,” he said.
Some of the beneficiaries thanked the association for the gesture and promised to make judicious use of the items.