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Rahat Welfare Trust
Registered
under the Bombay Public Trust’s Act, 1950. Regn. No E 13435
Registered
with the Ministry of Home Affairs, under F. C. R. A., Regn. No 0837780680
Registered
Office: Unit 8 , Grd. Floor, Liberty Shopping Centre, Hill Road, Bandra
(West), Mumbai 400050. INDIA
Tel.:
91 22 26552256 * 91 22 22914676 Mobile 98923 09785
Administrative
Office: Row House 5 A, Asmita Hillviev CHS, Srikanth Dhadway Road, Mira
Road 401107
Email:
rahat786@hotmail.com rahat@rahatwelfaretrust.org www.rahatwelfaretrust.org
Light Up The Sky
Rahat in Perspective: Rahat
Welfare Trust was established in 1992 with the primary objective of
promoting the welfare of Muslim women and children, particularly that of
widows and orphans. While Rahat started working in 1992, some of us
associated with Rahat have a grassroots level community-service
background of almost thirty years. Due to this exposure we discovered that
there was no organsiation in Mumbai that offered timely help to women on a
timely basis. Particularly to widows, divorcees and deserted women and
their children. From this perspective Rahat is a need based
organsiation and in September 2007 has over 3000
applications from such bereaved and deserving families.
Welfare literally means well-being.
And well-being is defined as a state of good health, happiness and
prosperity. We feel that the well being of a poor community can be
achieved ONLY by educating the children of the community.
Untrained and uneducated these widows and divorcees, when they come to Rahat
for help, when they sob and cry and plead, almost universally they all
want to educate their children. Rahat is helping them do just that.
Left on their own to struggle to earn a livelihood, and bring up and
educate their children. The world can be a cruel place for such women. We
cannot really express the tragedy, the misery and the anguish that we face
when we encounter these women. Their only hope for a better life is
through the education of their children.
Total Support: Rahat is now helping 250
such families on a continuing basis, under its Total Educational
Support Scheme (TESS), sponsoring about 350 children.
Essentially TESS is a sponsoring scheme under which a student once
selected is provided with almost everything required by a child to go to
school. Bus, computer and school fees, text-books, note-books, work-books,
uniforms, stationery, raincoats, shoes, socks, ties, badges,
extra-curricular activities expenses - everything is provided by Rahat.
Rahat provides total support to the family to ensure that
the child goes to school properly. Educating the sponsored children is now
Rahat’s responsibility
Rahat also gives a small monthly
allowance for food and ration to several families. Rahat provides
nearly four hundred uniforms to poor students, going mainly to
Municipal schools at the beginning of every academic year. And now after
fifteen years of work at the grassroots, in the slums and the chawls,
scores of Rahat scholars have become self-reliant, earning a decent
livelihood, supporting their families and volunteering to
help others. These are the role models who have shown that a better world
is possible. These are the shining stars who have enriched our efforts and
have given a meaning to our work. Tempered with Islamic values and
characters, we hope, that these shining stars will not only light up their
own world but the sky itself.
We cannot really express the tragedy, the
misery and the anguish that we face when we deal with these hapless women.
ZAKAT COLLECTION. Rahat activities are
funded mainly through the Zakat collection in Ramzan every year.
And Rahat does need funds on a consistent and larger level if it is
to convert into a movement. We therefore request you to send Rahat
a part of your Zakat this Ramzan. (Donations are also welcome). No
amount is too small not to be of help. Please ask at least two other
persons to do the same. Zakat/Donations may be sent by a payee’s
account cheque/draft in favor of Rahat Welfare Trust to our
Administrative Office address at: Row House 5 A, Asmita Hillview CHS,
Srikanth Dhadway Road, Mira Road 401107. Donors in Mumbai may contact us
on phone 26552256 or on mobile 9892309785, we will collect Zakat
from their home, office or shop. Donations of Zakat to Rahat are eligible
for deductions as per rules under Section 80 G of the Income Tax Act,
1961. Thank You. May God Bless you.
IRFAN MERCHANT
President
Zakat purifies your wealth
ZAKAT TO RAHAT CAN BE PAID AT ALL THE BRANCHES
OF THE BOMBAY MERCANTILE CO-OPERATIVE BANK LTD. IN MUMBAI
ZAKAT HOTLINE 98923 09785 9.00 A.M. TO
MIDNIGHT
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