Orphans and children’s charity

Orphan Charity: Save a child’s life today

Every child deserves the best start in life: a happy home, a safe place to play and access to quality education, medical care and nutrition.

However, for the 1 in 5 children worldwide living in extreme poverty, many of these simple necessities and rights are out of reach. Instead, their life is incredibly challenging, with the risk of illiteracy, disease, child labour, lifelong poverty and even death. Donate to orphans and children today and help save lives.

Meet Amina from Bosnia

When Amina first came to Islamic Relief, she was very young. Her family were like most other families in the region – they were struggling with poverty and needed support.

Amina’s father had died in the war when she was just seven months old.

“All those things [troubles] do affect, you but over time you can’t let that hold you down. You have to overcome the pain” says Seherzada, Amina’s mother.

However, having lost their only breadwinner, the family had no income and were struggling to survive.

That’s where our orphan sponsorship programme helped to change their lives for the better. Through our sponsorship scheme, Amina’s family received enough money to allow her to carry on studying at school.

Orphan charity: Creating brighter futures

Now 20 years old, Amina has finished International High School and is studying economics. She loves drawing, reading, and learning new languages and speaks four: Arabic, Turkish, English and – of course – Bosnian. In her free time, she works as a translator.

What’s more, Amina’s brother Ahmed was also sponsored by Islamic Relief and now runs his own business, whilst her other brother Mustafa also attends university.

“I would like to thank you [Islamic Relief] for the regular help I have been receiving from you. It’s very helpful for my family and me”, says Seherzada. 

Thank you for your continued generosity. It’s due to your donations that we’re able to help children and young people like Amina and her brother across Bosnia and all over the globe.

With your continued support, Islamic Relief has helped 85,595 orphans across 27 countries. We’re not only transforming futures; we’re saving lives.

Read more about the way your orphan charity is changing lives for children in Mali and Yemen.

Supporting orphans and children

At Islamic Relief, we don’t believe in simply providing one-off care to support children and orphans in need. We instead invest in children’s long-term futures, supporting their families, carers, and local communities to provide long-lasting safe sustainable solutions to poverty and inequality.

We use your orphan charity to provide child-friendly safe spaces, empower communities, and develop long-term solutions to poverty and critical issues such as human trafficking (child labour) and child marriage.

We support children across the globe in a variety of ways, including:

• Sponsoring orphaned children across the globe, providing schooling, regular meals, and financial support for carers/families
• Providing Syrian refugee children with critical education, housing, and nutritional support
• Offering critical food aid to severely malnourished children in conflict-fuelled Yemen
• Ensuring that children living with disabilities and the trauma of war in Gaza can access critical medical and psychosocial care
• Developing integrated child-friendly villages in Mali, offering new classrooms and teaching materials, latrines for both boys and girls, water wells and micro dams to provide a source of clean safe water for everyone and critically: the means to earn an income

With your continued support, Islamic Relief have created over 85,000 orphan sponsorships and supported overs 200,000 orphans in need across 27 countries with our projects.

By providing nutritional services, health care, water solutions, education and family livelihood support, as well as striving to tackle critical issues including gender-based violence, child labour and climate change with affect local communities and in particular young girls, we’re not only transforming futures; we’re saving lives.

Save a life today, help orphans and children in need today.

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By providing nutritional services, health care, water solutions, education and family livelihood support, as well as striving to tackle critical issues including gender-based violence, child labour and climate change with affect local communities and in particular young girls, we’re not only transforming futures; we’re saving lives.

Save a life today, help orphans and needy children today.