by admin | Mar 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
From the Chairperson’s desk Ramadan Mubarak 1444 ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ At the outset, we wish to express our gratitude to Allah SWT for having blessed us with the glorious month of Ramadan 1444. Over the past three years with the COVID pandemic, we suffered from loss of lives and livelihoods for many families. We pray that Allah grants all our departed Marhooms Jannatul Firdaus Insha’allah. Families remain destitute and many are slowly recovering from the loss of lives and livelihoods. May Allah continue to show His infinite mercy on us and may we derive the maximum spiritual benefits of this auspicious month of Ramadan. During this difficult period, the JHESS fraternity has shown tremendous solidarity with the less fortunate and supported our initiatives with the highest commitment and sincerest empathy. We remain thankful and acknowledge your continued support. Whilst we have resumed some degree of normalcy we still remain cautious and have limited our social engagements. However, we have continued with our programs namely the provision of bursaries; distribution of food parcels; and assisting the orphans. This year we have sponsored bursaries again to 12 beneficiaries that we supported last year and 11 new applicants for the year 2023. Our Food Parcel campaign target for this year 2023 is +/- 1,500 food parcels. As you are aware the full amount contributed is distributed as we do this on a purely voluntary basis. We do not apply any administration fee. May Allah reward you and our members. Our Orphan committee provides provisions to +/- 220 orphans throughout the year in the form of school clothing; learning aids and stationary; food and...
