Make your zakat count.
This Ramadan, every cent you give to zakat can bring food and water to refugee families in Gaza, with deliveries happening daily.
That means UNRWA and UNRWA USA will cover 100% of administrative and operating costs, so you can give to Gaza in confidence this Ramadan.
Did you know that donations to UNRWA’s food and cash assistance program are Zakat-certified?
The National Zakat Foundation Worldwide certified UNRWA’s food and cash assistance program as zakat-eligible. In order to be zakat-eligible, an organization or program must confirm that beneficiaries of zakat meet specific eligibility criteria of being “poor and needy.”
What is Zakat?
As one of the five pillars of Islam, zakat is almsgiving, representing a portion of one’s wealth, to the poor and vulnerable on an annual basis.
There are eight categories of eligible people who may receive zakat, including those administering zakat’s collection and distribution, the poor, and the indebted, among others.
How is the Zakat administered by UNRWA?
All zakat donations are segregated into a specific account earmarked for food and cash assistance to the most impoverished Palestine refugees and are used within one lunar year, ensuring your money is used urgently and is directed to those who need it the most. In the case of food assistance, food baskets are delivered to qualifying families on a quarterly basis.
In the Gaza Strip, over 2 million Palestine refugees live in poverty and about 1.7 million are forced to rely on UNRWA cash and food assistance to meet their most basic needs.
