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In Today's Newsletter
Help HDF Fight Poverty & Helplessness in Pakistan- NOW!
Make Your Ramadan ZAKAT Donation!

Feel For Poor & Hungry
Live Poverty for a Day!
10 Things Families can Do to Fight Poverty
Jihad Against Wastage: How Tos
Quran and Hadith on the Poor and Needy
Living on the Edge: Many Families still Struggle
Hunger & Poverty Stats in America
Poverty USA Tour

Assalamu alaikum,

The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That's more than last year. More than ever before.

Everyday in the United States, many families have to make difficult choices when it comes to the basic necessities of food, shelter, healthcare, and childcare.

Fasting in Ramadan helps us feel the pains of deprivation and hunger. This powerful experience makes us much quicker than anybody else in sympathizing with the oppressed and needy around the world, and responding to their needs.

This week we invite you to educate youreslef about poverty in America and Pakistan. Learn some ways you can fight poverty as a family, how you can cut down on food wastage at home, and what the Quran and Hadith say about caring for the poor. Live poverty for a day!

Help HDF elimate poverty, ignorance, and disease in Pakistan through your Zakat this Ramadan, one person at a time. Please read Dr. Shehnaz Khan's special message to you!

Peace,
HDF Team

Help HDF Eliminate Poverty & Helplessness in Pakistan- NOW!
?Allah does not change the condition of people unless they change what is within themselves.?
Quran 13:11. This is the way God wants us to help people. This is the sunnat of the prophet. This is the only way we can uplift our people. We know you believe in this too! [read more]

Make Your Ramadan ZAKAT Donation!
Ramadan is the best time to pay your annual due, Zakat, to the poor and needy. HDF stretches every dollar of your Zakat to a perpetual benefit to entire communities! [read more]

Live Poverty for a Day!
From the relative comfort of middle-class life, it's hard to imagine how each day for poor people can become a struggle to survive. Try this simple exercise. How well do you survive? Then narrate your experience to others. [read more]

10 Things Families can Do to Fight Poverty
Wouldn't it be great to give charity as a family? You can do this in a systematic way by setting up a family Sadaqa box in a particular spot of the house. Then, convince each person to put a portion of their allowance or salary in this box. [read more]

Quran and Hadith on the Poor and Needy
Those who spend their wealth in the way of Allah and do not follow up their spending by stressing their benevolence and causing hurt, will find their reward secure with their Lord. They have no cause for fear and grief. (2:262) [read more]

Living on the Edge: Many Families still Struggle
Michelle Stewart dreams of spending just one day at a store without peeking at a price tag and having to tell her kids, ?No.? ?My husband gets paid every Friday, and by about Tuesday, after paying rent and some bills and doing the shopping, there?s about $60 left,? she said. [read more]

Hunger & Poverty Stats in America
The numbers are staggering. Today 37 million Americans live in a state of poverty, hunger and hardship. That's more than last year. More than ever before. [read more]

Help a Family Achieve Dignity for Just 50 cents a Day!
Your tax-deductible donation of just $15 per month will help us provide services for a family of eight. $30 per month supports two families. That?s just a dollar per day to help two families reach for dignity and well-being. Won?t you take a moment to donate now?

HDF is an organization of Pakistani-Americans.

Please forward this newsletter to all who care for Pakistan & America

The mission of HDF shall be to facilitate a non-political movement for a positive social change and community empowerment through mass literacy, enhanced quality of education, universal primary health care and grassroots economic development.

Date/Time Last Modified: 6/28/2002 5:32:02 PM

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