Help the Osman family catch up on rent and keep our food pantry stocked

on 2026-02-19

I am raising 2,400 GBP for my sister Halima, who has been raising three children on her own since her husband died in February. She works part time in a school kitchen and the hours were cut in September. Her income does not cover the rent and the heating in the same month, and she is now four months behind with a...

Approved for zakat. The organizer supplied three months of bank statements for every account and the tenancy agreement, and our team read them: on the figures given, net assets sit well below the threshold our policy uses and the arrears are documented rather than asserted. Funds are paid to the beneficiary rather than to the landlord's agent, which is what our policy requires. I left al-gharimin as unresolved rather than counting the arrears twice; nothing turns on it here because the household qualifies on need alone. No scholarly question arose and no consultation was needed.

on 2026-01-27

My uncle Bilal spent eleven weeks in hospital in Amman after a fall at work and came home to an invoice for 6,800 JOD. The hospital has sent two payment demands and the last one gives us until the end of next month. He is 61, he has not worked since the fall, and the family has no savings left after the first surgery....

Approved. The itemised invoice and both payment demands were supplied, so the debt is current and quantified rather than anticipated, and that is the fact our policy asks for first. The household's own means do not cover it on the statements we were sent. I asked the organizer directly whether any part of the balance is accrued interest or a late charge and was told it is not, which the invoice bears out. Payment goes to the beneficiary, who settles the account. Straightforward on the evidence; the only reason it took a second look is that a medical bill is often a bill someone else is already paying, and here nobody is.

on 2025-10-09

The Anwar family left their village in the last week of August when the water reached the roof of their house. They are now in a school hall two provinces away with what they carried. Their land and their stored rice are under water and they cannot reach either, and the bus fare back plus three months of rented rooms...

Approved. This is the shape our policy describes under the wayfarer heading: people away from home and cut off from assets they own but cannot reach, which is a different thing from owning nothing at all, and the copy is explicit about it. Registration papers were supplied and checked. I noted for the file that applying this category to displaced people is a reading our policy already takes and that our advisor signed off on this pattern of campaign last year, so I recorded the decision against that standing position rather than opening it again. Their land is not evidence against need here; it is precisely what they cannot reach. Worth saying plainly for the next reviewer: some platforms decline to verify traveller cases at all, on the practical ground that a genuinely stranded person is unlikely to be running a campaign. That is a workable position and it is not ours. We verify them where the displacement is documented, which is our board's choice about operating risk rather than anything scholars are divided on, and a reviewer who finds the documentation thin should say so rather than lean on the category being permitted.

on 2026-03-02

This year has been the hardest our family has known and I would not be writing this if there were any other way. We are behind on everything and the pressure on my parents is something I cannot describe. Whatever you can give will go towards getting us through the next few months and back on our feet. Please keep us...

Information requested, and I want it on the record that this is not a refusal. The copy states hardship four times and states nothing a reviewer can weigh: no income, no outgoings, no assets, no named debt, no specific cost. Two or three categories are plausibly in play and not one of them can be assessed on this text. I asked for the household's monthly income and outgoings, whether there are savings or property, and what specific bill the money would clear first, and I said in the message that a short factual paragraph is worth more here than the appeal is. Held open pending the answer.