Ramadan Iftar Box Program

By Shireen Gul

‘Misery exists even when it is invisible to us.’ In order to negate this dilemma, the team of Project Muskurahat has worked tirelessly to mitigate the plight of the deprived ones, no matter how easy and smooth everyone thinks there lives go.

We, the team of Project Muskurahat, carried the same mission during the month of Ramadan when we declared our prime task for the Holy Month on 1^st Ramadan : to prepare nutritious Iftaris for the as many impecunious people as we could. As soon as our agenda spread through Facebook and other forms of media, we started to receive an overwhelming response in the form of huge amounts of donations. The field work was distributed into four batches, and each of these lots contained different eatables, so that the destitute people also have a chance to taste the eatables that we, the privileged ones find pleasure in consuming.

We distributed our first batch among the poor people on 26^th July. Each box contained a date, a packet of juice, a samosa, a pastry and a mini pizza. This day, we made sure that 30 of the most necessitous people did not go to bed hungry that day.

The second batch was sent out on 2^nd August, and was distributed among 40 needy families. Each of the packets consisted of a date, pakoras, two samosas, ½ litres mango/orange juice and a ½ kg bag of sugar, which were given out because Eid was approaching.

As part of the third batch, which was sent out on 4^th August, packets of Biryani were to 30 indigent people, which brought smiles upon their faces.

The Ramadan Iftar Box project came to an end when ‘Eid packages’ were dispensed to 130 poor people to make their Eid celebrations special. Each package contained a pack of Vermicelli, Tang and 1 Kg sugar.

Throughout this project, certain businesses stood up as a support for us: they sponsored the gifts which were given out to the winners of the lucky draw which was conducted as an incentive for the donors. These businesses include GURUTEE, Bakers Cottage, AJURUK, Iris Design, Stylista! , Movies for Buddies, Fatima Accessorize, FIONAS PHOTOGRAPHY and Tarz.

The list of the winners of the lucky draw and their gifts is as follows:

• ·          Rabia Khawar(2 shirts- GURUTEE, Ralli( a bed pull over)- Ajuruk, ring- Stylista !)
•          Momina Amir (2 shirts- GURUTEE)
•          Wajiha Naveed ( 2 shirts- GURUTEE),
•           Rameesha Khan ( 2 shirts- GURUTEE),
•           Fatima Asghar (1 shirt- GURUTEE, 2DVDs- MOVIES FOR BUDDIES)
•           Kulsoom Malik (1 shirt- GURUTEE)
•           Maryam Adeeb (2boxes of 6 cupcakes- Bakers Cottage)
•                   Mrs. Gohar (2boxes of 6 cupcakes- Bakers Cottage, gold plated earrings- Iris Design)

We are highly thankful to our donors and sponsors who made it possible for us to accomplish this noble mission of helping out more than 130 poverty-stricken families.