ITT’AM
Itt’am:
Feeding the Needy
(Tikia/Soup Kitchen + Bread Distribution + Aqiqah)
The Feeding the Needy project by Euro Relief Foundation is a compassionate initiative dedicated to fighting hunger and supporting vulnerable communities. Through our Tikia (soup kitchens), we provide warm, nutritious meals to those in need, ensuring that no one goes to bed hungry. Our daily bread distribution further extends this care, offering essential sustenance to families facing hardship.
In addition, the project integrates the Aqiqah program, enabling donors to fulfill their religious obligations while helping those less fortunate. The distributed meat from Aqiqah sacrifices reaches impoverished households, spreading joy and nourishment alike.
Together, these efforts form a vital network of support that uplifts individuals, restores dignity, and strengthens communities. With your generosity, ER continues to bring hope and sustenance to thousands across the Middle East and beyond — one meal, one loaf, and one act of kindness at a time.
A. Tikia (Soup Kitchen Project/Hot Meals):
The Goal: Providing cooked meals to the poor, displaced, and refugees on a daily and weekly basis.
Services:
- Daily hot meals (lunch).
- High nutritional and hygiene standards.
The Cost: £500 provides 100 hot meals.
The Impact on the beneficiaries:
- 100 hot meals daily for those in need.
- Relieves hunger pangs, ensures dignity, and makes people in need feel cared for.
- Improved mental and physical health.
- Creating a sense of community and solidarity.
- Supporting low-income families.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“Any Muslim who feeds a hungry person, Allah will feed him from the fruits of Paradise.” [Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi]
B. Daily Bread Distribution
The Goal: Ensure that poor families have access to fresh bread daily, especially as bakeries collapse and flour becomes scarce.
The Features:
- Daily fresh, high-quality bread.
- Organized distribution in the neediest areas.
- Taking into account large families and widows.
- Ensuring basic food security.
- Supporting children and older people in particular.
The Cost: £5 (1 bread bundle).
Allah Almighty says:
“Who is it that will lend Allah a good loan so He may multiply it for him many times over?” (Al-Baqarah 245).
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
“The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to others.” (Narrated by Al-Tabarani).
The Goal:
- Performing the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (saw).
- Reducing hunger and its impact on the health of children, women, and the elderly.
The Impact:
- Contributing to limiting famine among victims of starvation and ethnic cleansing.
C. Aqiqah, Give Aqiqa for Your Newborn Child
In light of the unprecedented starvation in Gaza, donate the value of your newborn’s Aqiqah to the people of Gaza to earn double reward.
ER will slaughter the Aqiqah and distribute it to those who deserve it on your behalf with complete honesty and professionalism, or provide food or medicine for the value of the Aqiqah to those who want to earn reward in Gaza during this genocide and the lack of Aqiqah.
Fiqh Position
Jurists have stated that slaughtering an ‘aqeeqah is better than giving its price in charity, unless a calamity befalls Muslims or they are in need. The need of our brothers in Palestine is clear to everyone, and the obligation to help them and stand by them is clear to every Muslim. Therefore, a lesser act becomes a virtuous one, and there is no harm in giving its price in charity.
Aqiqah: £250.
