CHARITY
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Hardship and Infrastructure Relief:
When disaster strikes, apart from the human misery caused by hardship, the infrastructure upon which the locals rely is often damaged beyond reasonable repair. Furthermore, a lack of this basic infrastructure is key to exacerbating the human misery.
Roads, homes and other essential buildings are often devastated and although the human suffering and hardship can be alleviated, the infrastructure needs to be reinstated to ensure a future for the affected region.
Al-Khair Foundation recognises this twin approach to aid and although it provides “disaster relief” immediately, it evaluates the longer term hardship and infrastructure relief that will be required for effective recovery without long-term reliance on outside aid.
Furthermore, Al-Khair Foundation does not seek to duplicate the aid efforts of other agencies. The Foundation identifies genuine gaps in aid and looks to rectify these. In Kashmir, for example, widows are provided with periodic aid in an attempt to rehabilitate them with their dignity intact. Four Al-Khair affiliated schools have been built for orphans and the Foundation offers sponsorship schemes to allow individuals a conduit to helping orphans.
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