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Helping people help themselves

In Today's Newsletter
How Tos of Fasting
Share Ramadan with your neighbors
Calculate your Zakat online!
Health Projects of HDF
71% of our visitors give zakat in Ramadan
Latest Online Poll: Giving Zakat
Develop Pakistan One Family at a Time
Send Ramadan E-Cards

Assalamu Alaikum,

Coming Saturday will most likely be the first day of fasting for Muslims. Ramadan Mubarak. This newsletter provides articles regarding Ramadan.

You are our supporters. You are the one who have built HDF brick by brick.

You know what it takes to build.

HDF vision of helping people help themselves is working.

More than ever, we need your support now.

We firmly believe that “Allah does not change the state of a people until they change what is within them.” (Quran 8:53). That is the reason we think that the civil society must continue to strengthen itself for human development.

We will keep on building. Together, this partnership of helping people help themselves will continue to shape the future of Pakistan.

Today, HDF has become the third largest non-governmental organization working in Pakistan due to Pak-Americans like you working hand in hand with villagers who are being empowered by our micro-credit, preventive medicine and the model school programs.

I know that like us, you will be receiving many requests for zakat this Ramadan. But our request to you is that this Ramadan please donate your zakat to HDF.

YesPakistan team

How Tos of Fasting
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is an act of obedience and submission to Allah's commands through the highest degree of commitment, sincerity and faithfulness to seek Allah's mercy, to atone for sins, errors, and mistakes and to avoid condemnation to Hell.[read more]

Calculate your Zakat online!
Rewards for good deeds are multiplied during the month of Ramadan. The Prophet's hand used to be busy with giving charity during this blessed time. Reap the benefits of this month by donating to HDF. Calculate your Zakat online!

8 tips on sharing Ramadan with your neighbors
Ramadan is a great opportunity to share Islam its values of spirituality, generosity and kindness with others, especially your neighbors. It's a great time to do Dawa and explain our faith as well as our Pakistani culture. [read more]

71% of our visitors give their zakat in Ramadan.
Survey Question: When do you give your zakat?

Ramadan	71.01%
Other times	17.39%
Don't give	8.70%
Doesn't apply	2.90%

How much do you plan to donate this Ramadan?

Photo Presentation: Health Projects of HDF
Explore the way health projects of HDF is saving lives in rural areas of Pakistan. [more]

Help a family achieve dignity for just fifty cents a day!
Your tax-deductible donation of just $15 per month will help us provide services for a family of eight. $30 per month supports two families. That’s just a dollar per day to help two families reach for dignity and well-being. Won’t you take a moment to donate now?

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The mission of HDF shall be to facilitate a non-political movement for a positive social change and community empowerment through mass literacy, enhanced quality of education, universal primary health care and grassroots economic development.