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<div>I'm Said Mohamed, raising funds for Halima Dube, a 64-year-old woman from Somalia suffering from psychosis, fatty liver, and other serious health issues. Somalia lacks the proper medical facilities, so we need to transfer her to Hyderabad, India for urgent treatment.
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<div>We’re seeking $25,000 to cover her and her caretaker’s travel, medical care, accommodation, and recovery needs.
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<div>Please help us give Halima a chance to heal.
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Help Halima Dube Get Urgent Medical Care

<div>Brother Abdullah’s work for the community is unparalleled and he has provided solace to community members who have lost loved ones. He has been there for us throughout the winter and in freezing temperatures. It’s time to thank him for his sacrifice and hard work because we are a community of gratitude. We can’t really thank him enough for his tireless efforts and exceptional community service. He is the backbone of our community and a valuable asset. 

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<div>He does what many people don’t like to remember or pretend it doesn’t exist and he has done it a thousand times, washing, preparing and burying Muslim brothers and children and he will do it no matter what the condition of the human body is in when it’s brought to him and he does it with the utmost respect for the body, their privacy, and family members. He is always very kind with his words and actions. He also helps organize, transport, and bury sisters when they have been washed by other sisters. Brother Abdullah will help you coordinate everything at the mosque for the funeral. He oversees &amp; coordinates the Ghusl Mayyit, Salat al-Janazah and graveside burial. He can assist with any questions regarding any of these or to help you prepare for a nearing death. He runs Janazah Project MN for people to follow for regular updates on community news and daily burials as well as WhatsApp Janazah Group. May Allah reward him immensely for his contribution and sacrifice to our community. Ameen. May Allah also reward you all for your generosity and contribution to this fund in this blessed month of Ramadan. Ameen.

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<div>The entire amount donated will be paid to the recipient, Muhammad Abdullah, and the funds will be used for his personal expenses, to pay bills such as phone and internet, which are used to send and receive Janazah messages and his other financial needs including transportation expenses to and from the funeral home. He’s always traveling to take care of the deceased community members, washing them and taking them to their resting place or final home which is the grave. He is also a consoler and comforter of the grieving families of the deceased community members.

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<div>I will be withdrawing the funds on behalf of the beneficiary at the end of the campaign and then deliver a cashier’s check to him. I will ask some community leaders to go with me and witness as I hand over the check to the beneficiary. This is exactly what we did in the last campaign for the beneficiary. We will take a group picture when we deliver the check and share that with the donors and on social media for transparency. I have known brother Abdullah for more than 15 years and he’s a very close friend of mine and a brother in Islam.

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Libraries are more than just shelves of books. Books are just a tip of the iceberg of what is a space for learning and sharing information, community building, belonging, escaping, ways of navigating through different worlds, and creating a brand new world of possibilities.<br /> <br />That is exactly what the Mayalaya- a library and the meditation space at Ascend Education Ecosystem will be all about. <br /><br />That is what we want the space to be all about.<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/51839036_1602479087858336_r.jpeg" alt="51839036_1602479087858336_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />Mayalaya-Kenya will be inside the premises of Ascend Ecosystem- an innovative childcare and education facility that provides disadvantaged children with a safe and loving environment to learn, live, and grow. The children belong to families who live in one of the worst slums in Kenya-Giotto, a shanty town close to a garbage dump site.<br /><br /><br /><a href="f/build-a-school-for-kenyas-worst-slum"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-school-for-kenyas-worst-slum" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-school-for-kenyas-worst-slum</a></a><br /><br /><br />Our vision for Mayalaya and for the children who will be benefitting from it is simple.<br /><br />We want to develop young readers, to begin with. The culture of learning and sharing information begins through love for reading. My love for reading purely began because I had a great library in school and the best librarians who did not mind picking out books from the highest racks and recommending good ones when I didn´t know what to pick. <br />Everything started changing when I started to enjoy reading, and that is the culture we want to build, to let the children experience what reading does and why it is good to begin with.  The output vision of this step is to develop a love for reading :)<br /><br />Reading anything that fascinates you forces you to learn new words, think new thoughts, and keep looking at the direction of your interest long after you have finished. <br />The reading space then becomes about sharing conversations, meeting like-minded friends who love subjects you love, discussions regarding your interests, and a hub that is centered around learning and development.<br /><br />I have used libraries (and I still do!) as escape rooms to find myself, and that is what I dream about for the children at Ascend.<br /><br />Using imagination creates a unique world where they get to feel things, visit places they would have never known otherwise. They can be anybody out there, and once you have been someone else when you come back to your own world, it always manages to change you, slightly, somehow.<br /><br />Everything changed with the power of imagination for me, and that is what we want the children to learn that they are able to travel around and between different worlds, in this space we have built for them and bring back that world they find a home to reality.<br /><br />The space will be a bridge to close the gap between worlds where imagination in these young minds should serve as a realization that their world does not have to be like the way it is. It can be different if they want it different. If it is discontent, they feel after seeing a potential world; we want that discomfort and discontent to be used to modify and improve their worlds, to leave it better, and to leave it different for everyone.<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/51839036_1602479208824162_r.jpeg" alt="51839036_1602479208824162_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />Mayalaya-Kenya will be so much more than just another library or a place with shelves. In fact, there are no conventional shelves in the design itself!<br /><br />It is about freedom-to read, communicate, educate, entertain, be informed, inform, escape, a community space where they feel they belong to, a safe haven, and a space to dream.<br /><br />We want the children to dream, to imagine. The space is an inspiration for them to believe that as children and as individuals, they make the future, the first step being imagining that things can be different. They learn that they have the power within themselves to make things beautiful, change the world, and leave it a bit better than they found it.<br /><br />And so how can you help bring about this change from the grassroots level itself?<br /><br />By making sure that there are books around the children to develop their love for reading and the space to read it. The library and the meditation space is important, as once built, it will be the only one in the vicinity as a resource center for the children in the school.<br /><br />Your donations for this cause is important for all the “whys” explained. <br /><br />Your donations for this space will help build up a generation of children from the slums whose lives would be completely reimagined and changed forever.<br /><br /><img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/51839036_1602479253908200_r.jpeg" alt="51839036_1602479253908200_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" /><br />I hope we can all give these children a world where they can read, imagine, be read to, understood, and just BE.<br /><br />*All fund updates will be posted as it comes and in our official social media handles: @mayalaya_aee and <a href="http://www.mayalay.org/"><a href="http://www.mayalaya.org/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.mayalaya.org/</a></a>. 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