Often times, children raised in homes without a father or male role-model, grow up feeling different or ‘missing-out’. This can lead to resentment towards the family and the Muslim community for simply not being able to grow up like a ‘normal’ child and constantly having to compromise on their wants and needs. Often, a contributing factor here is inadequate income, lack of finances and support from their mothers who can barely support themselves, thus causing an abandoned feeling among these children.

With the right support, we believe this will empower the Yateem children to feel more included in our community and seen by the people around them as ‘normal’ children. This will help minimise the effects of not having a father-figure present in their lives to a certain extent. Furthermore, the support will allow them to reach their potential which otherwise would always remain painful, regrettable excuses in the long term.    

Our Brighter Futures Program has positively impacted lives of Muslim orphans living in Australia by giving these children opportunities they wouldn’t have had normally due to the lack of finances and resources. To participate in this program, orphans attend regular Quran classes run by our service partners, they also have the choice to attend activities such as sports, extracurricular classes, mentoring and more. Currently we have 20 orphans in our program, on average it costs us just over $3000 a year to support one orphan, our aim is to expand this program and cater for at least 200 more Inshallah!

Orphans are amongst the most vulnerable in society. We need to ensure they can progress; are being adequately looked after and they enjoy life, like other children. 

Our Prophet (SAW) said “Myself and the caretaker of an orphan will be in Paradise like this,” and he held his two fingers together. (Al-Bukhārī 5659)

Abu Hurairah (RA) reports that the Messenger of Allah (SAW) stated "Whoever caresses the head of an orphan (in affection), solely for the sake of Allah, a good deed will be written to his account for every hair over which he passed his hand. 

Children are our future and our leaders of tomorrow, we need to make sure they are supported, grounded, and feel confident in who they are as Muslims. There’s no doubt that there are many orphans around the world that need help and support however Islamically it's our duty first and foremost to help those living amongst us in our own communities. 

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May Allah bless your Ramadan and accept from us all, Ameen!

If we raise a minimum of $50,000, Crescent Wealth/Crescent Foundation will support our campaign with up to an additional $10,000! 

Help us reach our target so we can help the Orphans here in Australia!