Establishment
Founded in 2014 by Dr. H. T. Yusuf, an Associate Professor at the University of Ilorin.
Mission
Providing necessary assistance to needy Muslims through counseling, mentoring, economic empowerment
Vision
To give succor to Muslims in Need
Objectives
* To create an enabling environment for Muslims, regardless of their status, to enjoy modest and quality lives devoted to the worship of Allah.
* To assist widows and other Muslims who are in need to trust Allah and live worthy lives.
* To give hope of worthy lives to orphans by nurturing them in an environment of love, dignity and trust in Allah.
Accomplishments
From the year 2014, 3500 widows and more than 1000 indigents have benefited from the various widows and orphans programmes of the organisation. We give loans to widows, 11 widows with minimum of a 100 hundred thousand naira start up capital are on the scheme presently. We increase the loan amount accessible based on repayment performance of the widow. Cash is awarded to some widows, while we also built a house for a widow with physical disability. Furthermore, some widows are on monthly upkeep allowance. So far, scholarships worth 3.5 million naira have been given to about 70 students from primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. We have gone to distribute books in school as well. Presently, we have 3 primary school pupils, 5 secondary school pupils and 14 university students on our scholarship for the ongoing session for whom we paid a total of 1.5 million naira. In the year 2017, 2018 and 2019 we used about 2 million naira, 5 million naira, 8 million naira, respectively, to feed widows and the needy at our annual Ramadan Feeding Programme.
Ongoing Project
Orphanage Before now, if cases of orphans needing places to live came up, we would give them out to ourselves to care for. However, these cases are increasing by the day, Hence the decision to establish an orphanage, Baitul Taqwa which was affirmed 2 months ago. This will afford us the opportunity of expanding the number of beneficiaries, and provide a central home to the orphans.
Membership
Members are about three hundred and fifty (350) women who reside in various places across the globe in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, African countries such as Ghana and South Africa and various states across Nigeria. The members are professionals from the various fields of life such as academia, medicine, law, business, banking, etc.