A Parcel of Joy: Distributing your Qurbani donations

Despite the cost of living crisis, your generous donations meant that those living in hardship across the globe received desperately-needed support this Dhul Hijjah.  

Thanks to your kind help, our teams on the ground carried out more than 195,000 Qurbanis across 29 countries, including right here in the UK, reaching over two million people!

Ajaiba lives in Kolfe Keranio, a district in West Addis Ababa, and is dependent on the “meager income” of her husband’s wages as a laborer. Meat is a luxury for the family. Ajaiba went onto to say:

In Ethiopia, a donation of £89 was enough to feed a family like Ajaiba’s. 

Worldwide consumption of meat has more than doubled in the past 20 years, reaching 320 million tonnes in 2018. 

And with prices now soaring during the cost of living crisis, meat is once again considered a luxury food, with its consumption dependent on income. 44-year old Julian Likulives with his mother, wife and five children in Ura e Vjetër e Bunës – an area near Shkodra in northern Albania.

He collects discarded tin cans from the streets around him to sell and buy bread to feed his children. Julian says:

Julian and wife Dorina, 39, usually find their meals by scavenging for leftovers found in public bins, too ashamed to offer this to their children.