MUMSA - Celebrating Ramadan
MUMSA (2020/R2)
Ramadan
Report
Introduction:
Ramadan is an event of where Muslim
community fasts for 30 days from sunrise until sunset Ramadan is the month of
the holy Quran, reflection, giving, discipline, family and community.
This year, due to Co-Vid 19 pandemic, the
usual daily iftars (dinners) every evening could not be arranged. Instead MUMSA
came up with another way to contributing to its members.
Pak n Save Voucher Cards worth 100$
were purchased and were distributed among the members who registered via Google
Doc link that was distributed to all the registered members email.
Executive
Committee Contribution:
Due to the prevailing situation at the
time of Pak n Save Voucher Cards distribution, a comprehensive set on
instruction were provided by ASA . A meeting was held between the MUMSA executive
committee members and a plan was established to distribute the vouchers under
the communicated Health and Safety guidelines.
A certain number of Vouchers were
distributed among each member (10 each), and the members were instructed to
collect their respective vouchers from each executive member at a mutual agreeable
time.
During Voucher collection process, it
was made sure that no physical contact is made and the members were instructed
to fill a contact tracing form provided by ASA. Following members took part in the process:
·
Muhammad Dandachly
·
Kashif khan
·
Ahmed Almutairi
·
Sibghatullah
·
Israr Wahid
·
Abid Farooqi
·
Noaman Riaz
Family and
community contributions for arranging Iftar:
MUMSA was able to collection funds of
around 1500$ form its members to sponsor 40% expenses of the activity
Special
thanks:
MUMSA would like to extend its
sincerest thanks to Kayleigh Wheeler, Jacqueline Adams, Rosetina Crockett, and
the CSCG Committee for helping us during the ever-changing situation due to
CoVid-19 pandemic and allowing us to our proceed with our proposed changes and
answering our emails and hosting ZOOM video sessions.
We would also like to appreciate the support
from committee members who took their time and considered our grant request.
