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Desde o lançamento global da iniciativa Ismaili CIVIC, no ano passado, os voluntários do Jamat mundial têm tido um impacto significativo nas áreas da saúde, educação, desenvolvimento económico, gestão ambiental e desenvolvimento cultural. Para tirar partido desta iniciativa, o Ismaili CIVIC Day global inaugural terá lugar no fim de semana de 25 e 26 de setembro de 2021.
Ismaili CIVIC UK is proud to announce that it will be celebrating Global Ismaili CIVIC Day (GICD) on the weekend of 25 and 26 September 2021, uniting our Jamat from across 21 jurisdictions, covering 40 countries.
Since the global launch of the Ismaili CIVIC initiative last year, volunteers from the worldwide Jamat have made a significant positive impact in the areas of health, education, economic development, environmental stewardship, and cultural restoration. To build on this momentum, the inaugural Global Ismaili CIVIC Day will take place on 26 September 2021.
In a recent poem by Jordan Sanchez, Reimagine, Recreate, Restore, she reminds us, “We are a fraction of a second in Earth’s lifetime, yet she is our only lifeline.” In an effort to align with this thinking, Ismaili youth, governmental and civil society institutions, and AKDN agencies in Pakistan are working hand-in-hand to reimagine our lifestyles, recreate our approaches, and restore our ecosystems.
The blood drive was an initiative Ismaili CIVIC, a global initiative that brings Ismaili Muslims together to support their local communities through voluntary service; an expression of the Islamic values of service, compassion and generosity.
Glass Door, a locally based charity that coordinates the UK’s largest open-access network of emergency winter shelters, food and support services for people affected by homelessness.
Swindon Food Collective is a local food bank that aims to help people who are suffering from financial hardship and finding it difficult to provide food for themselves, their family or dependants.
The Outreach Portfolio under the ISMAILI CIVIC banner distributed food during Ramadan to 1,000 families in Kampala, Uganda.
The Royal London Hospital in particular has worked hard to care for the local community, which includes several BAME communities which have been adversely affected by the
spread of coronavirus.
In August 2020, Government supplied food boxes for previously shielding and vulnerable families were brought to a stop.
A little over a year ago, the United Kingdom, along with the rest of the world, went into lockdown to protect people from Covid-19. Businesses, schools, places of worship, and even medical services closed. For many people, the lifelines they had come to rely on had been taken away overnight.
Ismaili CIVIC is a global programme under which the Jamat throughout the world has united around a mission to serve humanity by rendering services to improve the quality of life of the communities in which they live. This international endeavour reflects the community’s ethic of civic engagement and good citizenship, exemplifying Islam’s core values of service, peace, compassion and care for the vulnerable.