Dear HOPE Friends,

🏔️ Our Much Awaited Ramadan in Kashmir Pics are Finally Here!

✏️ Our Kashmir posts are always popular, and for good reason. Below you’ll find students from our 35 Home Schools across Azad Kashmir being treated to new Eid Clothes along with a biryani meal in Ramadan 2023.

🎓 HOPE USA has revived the pragmatic, yet underutilized concept of home schooling in Pakistan. Home schooling addresses both the barriers to supply and demand in the Pakistan education crisis.

📚 Altogether, HOPE USA educates 11,000 students via Home Schools throughout Pakistan; 2,000 of them are in the remote mountaintops of Azad Kashmir, and 80 percent of these students are girls who would otherwise face challenges in attending school.

✅ We are still collecting donations for all our Ramadan Activities - It’s not too late to get rewards:

     🔹 Website: www.hopecharityusa.org

     🔹 Zelle: hopeusa@hope-ngo.com (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

     🔹 Mail a Check: HOPE USA, PO BOX 786, Newark, CA 94560 (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/pakistanzakat

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/foodrations

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/EidClothesforChildren

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/door-to-door-iftar

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/pakistansadaqa

🌹 Much appreciation to all our supporters for bringing ease to the lives of the poor in Pakistan with your donations!

Warm regards,

The HOPE USA Team

Dear HOPE Friends,

Check It Out - We've Been Doling Out Food Rations, Door-to-Door Iftars, Sit-down Iftars, and Eid Clothes All Across Pakistan

Although we've been putting out updates regularly in Ramadan, by the Grace of God, there is so much more HOPE USA activity that we could not cover all bases without overwhelming our supporters with posts:

    Sit-down Iftars: (2,100 total students in Korangi, Thatta, Muzaffargarh)

    Eid Clothes: (Yes, even some adults as there's a smiling kid in all of us)

    Food Rations: (Villages and urban slums)

    Door-to-Door Iftars: (Villages and urban slums)

 It's not too late to donate towards any of these causes:

    Website: (Click on the blue buttons above or below)

    Zelle: hopeusa@hope-ngo.com (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

    Mail a Check: HOPE USA, PO BOX 786, Newark, CA 94560 (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

    LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/pakistanzakat

    LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/foodrations

    LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/EidClothesforChildren

    LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/door-to-door-iftar

    LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/pakistansadaqa

Here you'll find an assortment of pictures of various activities during Ramadan 2023:

https://www.hopecharityusa.org/post/check-it-out-we-ve-been-doling-out-food-rations-door-to-door-iftars-sit-down-iftars-and-eid

Thank you for your much needed support during this blessed month.  

Warm regards,

The HOPE USA Team

Dear HOPE Friends,

Standard Chartered Bank Teams Up with HOPE USA to Host Grand Iftar for 1,500 Underserved Students

🇵🇰 On Thursday, Standard Chartered Bank collaborated with its longtime partner, HOPE USA, to host a Grand Iftar for 1,500 underserved students in Korangi District, Karachi, Pakistan. Students enjoyed breaking their fasts in a community setting, networking with professionals, and also received Food Rations and Eid Clothes during the event.

You can check out a video of the event here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aXQe2xOe4O93mdrGSfXxfzw1YVw1P1kO/view?usp=sharing   

🎯 Events such as these are part and parcel of HOPE USA's efforts to tackle poverty from all angles, physical, mental, and psychosocial.

📈 Due to staggering inflation in Pakistan following two consecutive crises (the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2022 Pakistan Floods), families in Pakistan are especially struggling to make ends meet.

🍔 We have been inundated with requests, especially for food rations. HOPE USA is one of just a handful of organizations in Pakistan which is distributing food rations this Ramadan (due to soaring food costs).

✅ You can step up to the plate to help deserving families by any of the following methods:

     🔹 Website: https://www.hopecharityusa.org

     🔹 Zelle: hopeusa@hope-ngo.com (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

     🔹 Mail a Check: HOPE USA, PO BOX 786, Newark, CA 94560 (Be sure to include a donation category and your email address for a tax-receipt.)

     🔹 LaunchGood: https://www.launchgood.com/pakistanzakat

     🔹 LaunchGood: https://www.launchgood.com/foodrations
   
     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/EidClothesforChildren

     🔹 LaunchGood: www.launchgood.com/door-to-door-iftar

     🔹 LaunchGood: https://www.launchgood.com/pakistansadaqa

💝 Thank you for your generosity during these last few blessed days of Ramadan!

Warm regards,

The HOPE USA Team

**Please note that this sit-down iftar was sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank.  HOPE USA does not use Zakat funds to pay for sit-down iftars as they are not a Zakat-eligible cause.  The Food Rations and Eid Clothes donated were sponsored by HOPE USA and these are both Zakat-eligible causes.