Story: Fauziatu Adam
Seventy thousand poor Muslims across the country would enjoy this year's Ramadan following the donation of food items by the African Muslim Agency (AMA) in Accra today.
The GHC115,400 food item basket include rice, beans, a tinned tomato, cooking oil and a bag of dates for each family.
AMA is a humanitarian organisation which started its operations in Ghana in 1990. It can boast of four centres which can be located in Accra, Cape Coast, Kumasi and Tamale housing over 800 orphans across the country.
The Kuwait based agency mainly targets orphans, single mothers and people with special needs especially in remote areas and dispatches its aid items to these individuals.
The agency, seeking leadership, was one of the first charity societies in the Islamic World that revived the traditional acts of the prophet Peace Be upon Him in constructing the small endowment projects in remote areas.
Moreover, the organisation has sponsored over 100 Muslims and non Muslims brilliant but needy students across the universities in the country to promote education and sponsors 10 Muslims to go for Hajj every year.
The institution’s activities targets development projects in poor African communities. Under the slogan “Every Child in Africa has the Right to Education,” Direct Aid has been mainly focusing on education as a basic means to make a difference in poor African communities.
