This Ramadan I have teamed up with Human Appeal to fundraise and support an orphan. By supporting an orphan you enable a child to go to school, eat well, and stay safe, warm, and healthy, providing the foundations needed for a brighter future.

I and the one who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like these two” – and he gestured with his forefinger and middle finger, holding them close together.’’ (Bukhari)

The worldwide orphan crisis

It is estimated that there are over 100 million orphans worldwide, with 5,700 children becoming orphans every day due to war, natural disaster, poverty, disease, and lack of access to medical care.

Although 250,000 children are adopted every year, 14,050,000 orphans will grow up without ever having been part of a loving family. Every day, 38,493 children age out of an orphanage. Every 2.2 seconds a child leaves an orphanage or foster care with no family to belong to and no place to call home.

With less than 1% of all orphan children adopted into loving families, our support is needed to care for the rest of the world’s millions of orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children.