Kimse Yok Mu, the prominent outlet for international aid
With activities spanning across 113 nations, the non-profit organizations aid activities continues to reach across the globe defying theTurkish government’s unjustified persecution.
Date posted: January 23, 2015
Most recently the Jamiatul Ulama South Africa Council of Muslims has committed over $550 million in aid to support Kimse Yok Mu’s international effort to reach out to the vast number of Syrian refugees who struggle to survive through winter in Turkey, after being displaced from their home country amidst years of conflict. The efforts have also been added to by the Singapore based As Siddiq, along with Simply İslam, the Arab Network, Nagshibandi Singapore, AMD, Qiswah.
A key point of Kimse Yok Mu’s international aid efforts continues to be Palestine, which has been given a boost with a $203,000 aid package donated from the Rehmet Lil Alemin organization in Singapore.
Kimse Yok Mu has continued with perseverance to serve families in need in all corners of the globe. The Turkish government recently unjustly removed the organization’s right to receive donations without a permit. Kimse Yok Mu, a UN partner in aid, has passed regularly passed all audits with flying colors.
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Kimse Yok Mu distributes aid to Syrian refugees
As Turkey is trying to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have taken shelter in Turkey from the war in Syria, charity organizations have scrambled to launch massive aid campaigns to lend a hand to the embattled refugees, with Kimse Yok Mu providing food and aid for 2,500 Syrians in İstanbul every week.
Gülen makes donation to needy Myanmar Muslims
Turkish Islamic scholar and intellectual Fethullah Gülen has donated $10,000 to support Myanmar Muslims who have long faced discrimination in the Asian country and have been targeted in killings by local Buddhists. Gülen donated $10,000, earned from the sales of his books and audio recordings, to leading Turkish charity association Kimse Yok Mu (Is Anybody […]
Gov’t cancels Kimse Yok Mu’s previously obtained permissions
Following an abrupt Cabinet decision to remove the status of public interest of Kimse Yok Mu, the largest volunteer and global aid organization based in Turkey, the government has also cancelled the charity’s previously obtained permissions to collect donation until the end of this year.
Another thousands of locals now have access to drinking water in Chad and Cambodia
Kimse Yok Mu Foundation (KYM), which has been carrying out water projects in numerous countries particularly in Africa, recently made 15 water wells available to the locals in Cambodia. Having a record of 286 water wells in Chad, the foundation will raise the number to 362 after the completion of 76 of them. The latest two projects will allow 20 thousand locals to drink clean water in Cambodia and Chad.
Kimse Yok Mu reaches out to Syrians in joint project with UNHCR
Speaking to Sunday’s Zaman, Kimse Yok Mu Secretary-General Savaş Metin said they have been able to reach out to 17,000 people from 2,900 families with this project, which will conclude by the end of February.
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