These are difficult times and for refugee families who don't have a safety net of social security benefits or access to free health and education, they are hit harder. AlFitrah foundation has started a grocery voucher program that enables 50 refugee families in the most dire circumstances to purchase the groceries they need . An analysis of the receipts show the different requirements of each family: a young Somalian mother uses her vouchers to buy babymilk and rusks, a Yemeni single mum buys adult diapers for her aged mother and chickens for her family's dinner, a Palestinian father buys oranges, pears and apples for his children.

Today is World Braille Day where we celebrate awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and visually impaired people.

At AlFitrah Foundation Braille Quran Initiative we gave Braille books and pocket Braille sets today to Tina and Tika two visually impaired girls who work next to our office, and Abian and his wife Rashidah, and Ismail who is planning to go for his umrah and wanted the guide to Haj and Umrah in Braille.

Alhamdulillah here is an updated list of the books we have for distribution.

BUKU DALAM BAHASA MELAYU

AL QURAN DAN NASKAH-NASKAH PANDUAN

SENARAI AL QURAN

1. AL QURAN AL KARIM
2. AL QURAN AL KARIM JUZ 30 (MUQADDAM)

SENARAI NASKAH PANDUAN

1. 14 SELECTED SURAH
2. KURSUS ASAS HAJI 1/2
3. YAASIN WA TAHLIL
4. HIMPUNAN DOA-DOA HARIAN
5. RUQYAH ASAS PENGUBATAN ISLAM
6. BERDZIKIR DAN BERDOA SELEPAS SEMBAHYANG SERTA MEMBACA AL-MA'THURAT
7. ASMA'UL HUSNA
8. MARI BELAJAR SOLAT
9. PANDUAN SOLAT TAHAJJUD
10. PANDUAN SOLAT TASBIH
11. PANDUAN SOLAT DHUHA
12. PANDUAN SOLAT JENAZAH
13. PANDUAN SOLAT TAUBAT
14. SIRAH NABAWIYYAH

Alhamdulillah we sponsored 700 Iqra' books to the Unit Agama of Kamunting Correctional Centre, under the Malaysian Prison Service for the detainees for their program of learning to read the Quran.

Here are representatives from the book publisher Galeri Umrahajj delivering the books to the Centre. Jazakillah khairan to sister Ida Hariati Hashim for arranging this.

Alhamdulillah we carried out Qurban of one cow for Eid il Adha and distributed the meat to 90 families . We also took a portion of the meat and had lunch at our office for the staff as well as some elderly members of the AFitrah Quran class for the blind.