The Friendship Bridge Muttur

Another milestone in the MASL history was the construction of ‘The Friendship Bridge’ in Muttur (Trincomalee district) which connects Arafa Nagar Muslim Community and Aman Nagar Tamil community with the Muttur mainland. These communities were displaced around 25 years and resettled back in their original place once security concerns eased.

Preparation of Documentary on cattle farming project

The communication team visited the project sites of MASL’s cattle farming project in Anuradhapura to prepare the first stage of a video documentary designed to capture the progress of the pilot project over a period of one year.

Muslim Aid Renovates and Hands over the Periyamadhu Hospital in Mannar.

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka ceremonially handed over the newly renovated Periyamadhu Hospital in Manthai West, Mannar to the Regional Director of Health Services on the 6th March 2011 in the presence of Hon Minister Rishad Bathiutheen, Hon. Governor of the Northern Province Rtd Major General Athula Chandrasiri, and Hon MP Unais Farook.

Muslim Aid constructs and hands over a preschool for resettling IDP Children in Palliyagodalla

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka ceremoniously opened and handed over a newly built pre-school constructed by Muslim Aid Sri Lanka in Palliyagodella-Medirigiriya DS division in the Polonaruwara District on 29th April 2011.

MASL opens pre-school in Thampalagamam

Striving towards Millennium Development Goal 2 set by the United Nations; Achieve Universal Primary Education, Muslim Aid has made efforts towards this goal in the Sri Lankan context. Recently (29th May 2011) Muslim Aid Sri Lanka opened and handed over a newly constructed pre-school for the rural village of Thampalagamam, Siraj Nagar in Trincomalee. Another Pre-school was handed over in Palliyagodella,

MASL Provides medical relief to victims of eye Cataracts

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka in partnership with Kuwait Hospital put into implementation a project designed to provide medical assistance to cataract patients completely free of charge. The project was targeted to benefit 60 cataract victims at a cost of over Rs 1 million. Implementation of the project began on the 15th of May 2011 and continued up until the 28th of May 2011.

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka donates houses in Monaragala

Muslim Aid Sri Lanka (MASL) handed over six permanent houses to Tamil, Muslim and Sinhalese families in Monaragala which is one of the poorest and the largest of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka. Often prone to natural disasters and drought with a high percentage of its population living below the poverty line the hardships the residents of Monaragala go through are many.

Rainbow Family Ifthar Programme

Muslim Aid’s Rainbow Family Programme runs across the Island in 7 districts and children of all gender, faiths, and abilities are able to, thanks to the support of the Rainbow Family, pursue their education, get proper food, healthcare, clothing, mentoring support and therefore build a safe and secure future for themselves.

Food Bank -2011

In 2009, MASL started the very unique concept of a Food Bank during the entire Ramadan Period in the vicinity of the mosque in Nimal Road Colombo 04. Cooked food as well as dry rations are collected every evening by MASL staff and volunteers. Those donating vary tremendously in age and social status.

But all have one common aim: helping the lesser fortunate who often struggle to make ends meet and go hungry every day.

Once the food is collected, the MASL staff packets it and distributes the food to the needy communities in the suburbs of Colombo Good food is therefore not unnecessarily wasted and this is an opportunity to give a helping hand to those who are often forgotten by society.

Former Rainbow Family Beneficiary Starts A New Life

Mohamed Mohideen Sajan Nafeel first entered the Rainbow Family Programme in 2007. Born to a gem merchant father, he had a happy childhood where no one including himself lacked a thing But tragedy was to strike and Nafeel’s father was murdered by unidentified men when he was studying in Grade 5.He had two younger sisters and one of them fell ill and past away after the death of her father.