Birmingham’s Young People make every penny count for Gaza
Sunday 1st March 2009 10am – 6pm
Over one hundred young volunteers will be out on the streets of Birmingham in an attempt to raise money for victims of the Gaza conflict this Sunday.
The young people will be around Birmingham city centre from 10am to 6pm in posts including Corporation Street, surrounding of Bullring and Victoria Square
Through simple bucket collections, they’re aiming to raise £5,000 for victims of the Gaza conflict – to provide them with much needed food and medicine supplies. The kind youngsters will be giving up their time for victims of the Gaza conflict which lasted 23 days, claiming 1400 lives, a total of 5450 wounded and over 14 000 homes were either part or fully destroyed.(Figures obtained from UN Survey).
The money raised will be sent to Gaza through The World Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities (which is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.)
The event has been organised by young people from the Abbasi Youth Committee from the Clifton road mosque in Moseley, in conjunction with The World Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities and The Council of European Jamaats.
Organiser Ali Dharamshi said: " We want to make every penny count and are urging the people of Birmingham to spare their change for this valuable cause. We aim to help the children who are now orphans, women who are now widows, and the elderly without shelter in the midst of winter. We want to raise as much as possible to provide medicine and food to those in desperate need.”
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Notes
- There will be photo and interview opportunities on the day with the volunteers and young people who organised the event.
- For more information please contact
Ali Dharamshi: ali.dharamshi@
GulamReza Datoo: gdatoo@tiscali.co.uk, 07968276381
- Useful links: www.ksmnet.org, www.coej.org or www.world-federation.org
