Mumbai: City-based NGO Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP) collected Rs 1 crore in zakat funds to help stop dropouts among poor school children. Zakat is 2.5% of annual savings Muslims give in charity.
AMP president Aamir Edresy at a function in the city said that Rs 1 crore collected in just 15 days of the month of Ramzan is part of AMP’s nation-wide “Mission 10K Futures” where 10,000 donors in 200 districts in the country are being approached to support 10,000 students with Rs 10,000 each.
“Several committees and enquiry reports, including Sachar Report, have identified dropout as one of the reasons for Muslims’ educational backwardness. We want to remove this malaise by reaching out to the poor and orphans with monetary help. The money will go directly to the schools of the deserving students,” said Edresy.
Earlier AMP launched IndiaZakat.com, India’s first zakat-based crowdfunding platform to strengthen collective zakat systems.
