97% of the money was allocated to the “poor and needy.”
The Zakat Fund supports 9412 families with 147.2 million dirhams within 9 months
The Zakat Fund has identified 3 legitimate banks for Zakat.
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Abdullah Al Muhairi: “Shari’ah banks include 21 projects, 16 of which are under the (the poor and the needy) bank.”
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The Zakat Fund reported that the total funds spent, since the beginning of this year until the end of the third quarter, amounted to 147 million and 214 thousand and 542 dirhams, and were directed to the beneficiaries through 21 projects, all of which fall under the legitimate banks of the obligation of zakat, benefiting 9412 needy families, who The conditions for entitlement to zakat apply to them, through three legitimate zakat banks, which are “the poor and needy, those whose hearts are reconciled, and those who are in debt.”
The Secretary-General of the Zakat Fund and Chairman of the Exchange Committee, Abdullah bin Aqeeda Al Muhairi, confirmed that the Exchange Committee held 92 meetings during the past nine months, including 55 video meetings (remotely) and 37 meetings by pass, during which it approved directing the prescribed amounts to the beneficiaries, according to the projects of the three legitimate banks, Of the 21 projects, including 16 projects under the Bank of the Poor and Needy, 8,735 families benefited, with a total of 142 million 712,398 dirhams, or 97% of the total zakat allocations.
He explained that the projects of the Bank for the Poor and Needy include the "weak income" project, which is considered the highest spent projects, with a total of 28 million 401 thousand and 752 dirhams, from which 1708 eligible families benefited in monthly amounts. 27 million and 78 thousand dirhams, of which 775 eligible families benefited in monthly amounts, and the third is a “cohesion” project for divorced women, with a total expenditure of 18 million and 502 thousand and 500 dirhams, from which 709 eligible families benefited.
Al Muhairi said that the projects of the Bank for the Poor and Needy included the “Wage and Wellness” project, which aims to extend a helping hand to needy patients who find it difficult to bear the costs of treatment, and 249 families benefited from it, with a value of four million and 806 thousand, and 959 dirhams, and the “Tawasol” project. » Which aims to take care of the families of prisoners while their family is in the penal institution, and 72 families benefited from it, with a value of two million and 286,000 dirhams, and the "Kafel" project, which aims to care for orphans and their families, and support them financially and morally, and 67 families benefited from it, with a value of one million and 230 thousand dirhams. And the “aid” project, which provides sums to the unemployed, to spare them from asking, and to ensure that they do not deviate and behave in the wrong ways, and 497 families benefited from it, with a value of eight million and 674 thousand dirhams.
He added that five million and 930 thousand and 261 dirhams were spent on 1242 families benefiting from the "Read" project, which aims to help students pay tuition fees and continue their education, and four million and 279 thousand and 174 dirhams, from which 208 families benefited within the project "Say, Lord, increase me knowledge." “, which aims to help eligible university students, in addition to five million and 994 thousand dirhams, from which 337 families benefited within the “Rahma” project to help and subsidize widows who have children over the age of orphaned (over the age of 15).
According to Al-Muhairi, the list of projects of the “Poor and Needy” Bank also includes the “Say, Lord, have mercy on them” project, which aims to support and help the elderly, benefiting 534 families with 10 million and 40 thousand dirhams, and the “Care” project to help people of determination, and provide rehabilitation costs Their own education, and what they need, to be effective elements in society, from which 253 families benefited, with a value of five million and 122 thousand dirhams, and the “You think they are rich from abstinence” project, which is directed to needy families, and the Fund takes the initiative to reach them, numbering 188 families, with a value of five Millions and 830 thousand and 486 dirhams, and the "Tahra" project concerned with distributing zakat al-Fitr during the month of Ramadan, which targeted 1117 families, with a value of one million and 675 thousand and 500 dirhams. With regard to the “Women of Their Hearts” bank, the fund allocated three million and 195,000 dirhams to help 639 families, as part of the “My Ummah” project, which targets new Muslims.While 1,307,144 dirhams were allotted to help 38 in debt families, within the “Salvation” project, which aims to relieve the distress of debtors, whose circumstances brought them into the grip of debts they were unable to pay, within the “Garmin Bank”.
12.7 million dirhams for those affected by “Corona”
The Secretary-General of the Zakat Fund and Chairman of the Disbursement Committee, Abdullah bin Aqeeda Al-Muhairi, confirmed that the Fund allocated a large spending budget to the project “Emergency Cases and Families Affected by Corona”, pointing out that the project aimed to help and alleviate the burdens, and relieve the distress of 763 families affected by the pandemic, in total. 12 million and 740 thousand and 500 dirhams.
He stated that the Fund also allocated the "Fazaa" project to help urgent cases that require rapid intervention, catastrophes, individual minor disasters, and relief for distressed families, from which 12 families benefited, with a total of 73,265 dirhams.
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