The Give a Hand Team

I started in 2002 to bring our community together by study circle. In 2015 we raised £300,000, purchased a building and established Salaam Community Association, so our community could come and associate themselves with each other.

Having a place for the community is crucial where we can pray and have social gatherings. In 2015 I saw the need to help the less privileged so I set up a charity to raise funds for the poor and needy called Salaam Blessing. The name was later changed to Give a Hand.

The community is benefiting by having a place for prayers and receiving lectures; the poor and needy in our target area of West Africa are getting aid. We also give food parcels out in Manchester.

I completed my dream of establishing a Mosque in Manchester, I will carry on with my work supporting the community and my vision of helping the poor through Give a Hand.

BSc HON QUANTITY SURVEYOR: Westminster University

2002: I joined as a Trustee member of Salaam Community Association, a registered charity in the UK with charity number: 1141175. I work voluntarily as a secretary to serve the organisation looking after the communities of Moss Side, Whalley Range and Hulme areas of Manchester, United Kingdom.

2015: I became a Trustee member and Treasurer for Give a Hand international charity organisation registered in United Kingdom under charity number: 1170329. Our work includes providing services and facilities to the minority ethnic groups and the poor and needy people of the Gambia and Senegal in West Africa.

Our target groups: women, children, elderly and disabled people.

Our activities:
Feeding the poor and needy;
Widows and orphans sponsorship;
Providing facilities - a mosque and community centre for the locals;
Running a Madrassah for Quranic and Arabic classes, and providing adult literacy sessions.