1. How each journey opens up more opportunities to serve!
A CLOSER LOOK AT ONE OF OUR JOURNEYS

2. Every Journey Opens Up
Opportunities To Serve
West Bengal. India

3. Low wage earners mostly. Significant poverty

4. Rampant illiteracy

5. Age old sources of water are polluted now. Causing
diarrhea, typhoid, cholera … Hurts more if you are poor

6. Shallow pumps causing skin lesions, multiple organ failures
and ultimately, cancer. High Arsenic content in the ground.

7. We went there to build a deep water well
to serve a neighborhood & a school

8. THERE WE
DISCOVERED …

9. It is also home to 35 yateem/miskeen boys & girls

10. Orphan girls whose relatives left them here. Orphan girls
who escaped brutal torture by their guardians. Poor girls
whose parents cannot feed them and take care of them.
In one case, a mother who knew she is going to die soon
due to a brain tumor, left her girl here in safety.

11. When it rains here …

12. You have to scramble to protect the meager belongings.
We didn’t ask how they face winters.

13. The place was running low on groceries with debts at
local stores

14. ‘CHICKEN BIRYAAANEEE!’ said everyone, when we asked what they love to eat.
Sadly, learned they’d never had that anytime. They had heard it is something
good.
Learned they ran out of rice and essentials.
Ramadan, when donors are generous, was a month away.
On what they liked, the kids said ‘Chicken Biryaneee!’.
We learned they just heard about it. Never ate.

15. They get a break between asr & maghrib. Was sad, young
kids just sitting around every day. Nothing to play with.

16. Right away, we bought grains enough for a month, for all.
With $550

17. Got Chicken Biryani made. Spent $56.

18. Everyone enjoyed the biryani … Most of them, first time
in their lives.

19. A badminton set, carrom board, 2 soccer balls and a few
jump ropes changed the entire place! Less than $100.

20. Especially, girls with traumatic pasts

21. Their break times are now fun! ALHAMDULILLAH!

22. WHAT CAN WE DO?
Increase capacity. Orphan and destitute girls being
turned away
Improve quality of teachers and education. Current
quality is poor, cannot afford experienced teachers
Improve living conditions. No proper shelter

23. This is the least we can do in a region known
for women and child trafficking!

24. It takes just $30 a month
to clothe and feed a child
http://imrcusa.org/donate

25. Support 1000 Orphan/Destitute Children
Inshallah
GOAL THIS RAMADAN

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