Community champions are preparing to distribute essential food items and warm meals to underprivileged and needy families across the kingdom ahead of Ramadan.
The Pakistani Women’s Association (PWA), a registered charitable organisation, for example, is working with leading restaurants to provide free or discounted Iftar meals, including biryani, curries and samosas.
The group will also distribute dry food provisions, such as rice, sugar, oil, dates and spices, as well as groceries to deserving families and workers in their camps and participating mosques.
“We aim to bring relief and support to families and workers across the kingdom who may be struggling at this time,” the club’s president Shahmeen Islam told the GDN. “Not only do we have the opportunity and privilege to give something back to Bahrain, but Ramadan is also a reminder of embracing charity and community service. It brings us all together.”
Non-registered community groups are also planning to offer helping hands. Lights of Kindness will extend its assistance across the island to labourers and workers as part of a Ramadan drive.
“We start distributing food to needy families around 10 days before Ramadan so they have time to prepare meals before the start of the holy month,” said the group’s founder Syed Haneef.
Items such as vegetables, fruits, oil, milk and rice packets have been handed out to low-income workers too. Warm Iftar meals will also be distributed to camps in Askar, Sitra and Riffa,” Mr Haneef said, adding that it was crucial to give back to those in need and spread kindness.
OneHeartBahrain, another unregistered not-for-profit charity group, has launched its Together We Eat campaign which aims to distribute Iftar meals and special food parcels to families and workers in labour camps throughout the holy month.
“Based on the principles of breaking fast together in unity, the campaign sets out to foster social inclusion,” said OneHeartBahrain’s founder Birthe van der Heijden.
People continue to donate prayer mats, biryani meals with snacks and Eid food parcels for the occasion.
“Through shared meals and meaningful interactions, participants will come together to embody the true spirit of Ramadan and create lasting connections that transcend cultural and social barriers,” she added.
Likewise, Miro Dole, who founded the unregistered charity called ‘A Box of Goodness’, has launched a Ramadan Food Drive and aims to distribute packages of non-perishable products to families and individuals with her band of volunteers for the eighth year.
“We aid both locals and expat workers without any discrimination, and we aim to help those who need it the most,” she said, adding that it was a ‘humbling experience’ to assist needy families during the holy month, and they hope to do more each year.
Donations are being dropped off at the Bahrain Rugby Football Club, St Christopher’s School’s Saar campus, Nadeen School in Dilmunia, The British Preparatory School in Saar and other locations, until the end of Ramadan.
The Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS) has already distributed 100 Ramadan boxes filled with dry ration goods to numerous workers in Umm Al Hassam and Manama, to provide migrant workers and other underprivileged people with Ramadan essentials. The Southern Governorate also began its annual charity campaign for Ramadan by distributing nearly 2,000 boxes to underprivileged families.
n People can donate by contacting the MWPS on 17827895 or 39276646, for more details about the PWA initiative reach out to @p_w_a_bahrain on Instagram and the other groups can also be reached through their social media accounts. And the other groups can also be reached through their social media accounts @oneheartbahrain and @aboxofgoodness.
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