Eid gifts -475 DFW Refugee Children
DFW International Community Alliance, a Dallas-based 501c3, has organized a drive that will provide children in 240 local refugee families with new clothes and shoes for the Eid holiday. The children, each of whom arrived in the Dallas metroplex during the past 12 months, are from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Burma.
YOU can provide 475 refugee children who live in Dallas and Fort Worth with the new clothes and shoes that Muslims traditionally wear on Eid.. When a refugee father takes home only $1,200 each month in salary, he's unable to offer them anything at all during Ramadan and Eid. For families headed by uneducated single mothers, the situation is even more bleak.
Our plan is to deliver WalMart gift cards to the 240 mothers by June 18, so each can purchase shoes and clothing for her children to wear on June 26 Eid Day.
We'll accompany the gift cards with:
1 package of dates (traditional for Ramadan)
1 goody bag for each child (candies, small toys
1 pack of new underwear for each
1 holiday greeting card
We estimate that this sponsorship amount for families of different sizes:
$100 for families with 2 children
$150 for families with 3 to 4 children
$200 for families with 5 to 6 children
$250 for families with 7 to 8 children
All donations are tax-deductible - just send us an email and we will supply a tax receipt. We have three ways for you to help:
a. through this website
b. by sending a check to DFW International, 2717 Hackberry Lane, Garland, TX 75042
c. by calling any of the volunteers on the attached flyer.
Our website is www.dfwinternational.org, and we are available to respond to your questions, at [email redacted].
ps. YES! We also need sponsors for DATES!
