A Small Village School Needs Your Help

Ryam is a small village of 5000 in Bihar, a state with significant illiteracy and poverty. About 50% are Muslims. Most of the men work in far away cities like Bombay/Mumbai to support their families. Financial condition of Muslims is abysmal. But still they try to make the best out of it.

A few villagers got together in 1952 and started a small madarsa to teach basics of Islam to children. Today it has grown into a well managed 6-room school with 240 boys and girls. 30 of them live on premises. Read more

Clothe A Child

School children from poor families are provided new clothes to wear for Eid. It costs about $10 to buy new clothes for one child.

Ramadan

This year IMRC has successfully implemented a program of 1.2 million meals for Ramadan and has setup a massive food distribution program for the flood victims in Bihar and Assam. Also during the 2008 Ramadan season IMRC has distributed 38,000 outfits of clothing and remitted more than $480,000. Read more

Opportunity of a Lifetime

This summer I traveled to India through the IMRC’s Summer Volunteer Program for five weeks. The program opened my eyes to a whole new realm of social and economical issues faced by millions of Muslims. Read more