The us-Sunnah Foundation started helping the Rohingya refugees in 2015 when thousands fled by boat to Aceh, Indonesia
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Sep
Tag Archives: Relief
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Jun
Jun
Alhamdulillaah, this Ramadan we were able to repeat our cooperative efforts from last year with other local organizations. Together we were able to feed hundreds of orphans in our second annual Ramadan event which included many events for the orphans as well as a lesson and reminder on the importance of the orphans to our […]
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Jul
Jul
Today, in this holy Ramadan month, we distributed food packages to 550 orphans and widows from our fundraiser. As part of our orphan relief project
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Jun
Jun
Today we distributed school supplies and food packages to 200 orphans from our fundraiser. The event for the orphans was hosted by Komunitas Hijab Syar’i.
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Apr
Apr
This is our first Indramayu relief. Indramayu is a town in the West Java province of Indonesia, located in the northern coastal area of West Java
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Feb
Feb
Previously we had donated ~250 Qurans to the two Rohingya camps which were gifted to us from the printing factory in Medinah. Today we donated the rest of those, over 100 Qurans, to Rumah Tahfidz al-Fattah in Kotabumi, Tangerang. As the part of waqf project. They are both an orphanage that cares for the children’s […]
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Jun
Jun
After providing the initial emergency needs for the Rohingya and the pending deportation of the non-refugees we started work with the involved organizations and the government for the long-term needs. Since the camps are spread in two separate areas they can’t be combined in to one camp, but rather there will be two camps long-term […]
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May
May
We were invited as a personal guest by Patrialis Akbar, the former Minister of Law and Human Rights (including Immigration) under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is now the top Constitutional Court judge of Indonesia. As an official guest we met with government officials involved in the Rohingya refugee situation such as Usman Abdullah, the […]
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May
May
We visited all 3 of the Rohingya camps in person this week in Langsa, Bayeun and Lhoksukon. We met with representatives multiple nonprofit organizations as well as some of the initial government responders at the camps to assess the situation. The first two camps were fairly close together and had larger support already. The Lhoksukon […]
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May
May
The Rohingya are called by the UN as the most oppressed people on the planet. A couple days ago there were International headlines of thousands of refugees trapped in the seas. Fishermen from Aceh (Indonesia) have rescued hundreds of the refugees and they were now in 3 camps in Langsa, Bayeun and Lhoksukon. Our team […]