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Mosques bid to help Nelson needy kids (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Mosques bid to help Nelson needy kids
3:00pm Tuesday 31st July 2012 in News
By Tyrone Marshall, Reporter
CHARITY Tahir Anwar, left, with volunteers at a Salvation Army food drop
SIX mosques in Nelson have joined together to launch a new campaign to help families who are struggling to feed their children.
The Feeding Pendle and Beyond project has seen the mosques each allocate specific deposit days when non-perishable foodstuffs can be brought to the premises.
In addition, four public deposit points have also been assigned at various addresses in the town.
The food is then gathered together by volunteers from Inspiring Grace, a local, non-profit, community action group, and transported en-masse to already established food banks at St Phillips Church, Christ Church and the Salvation Army. Tahir Anwar, project leader, said: “When we at Inspiring Grace were made aware of the scope of the problem we did not hesitate to lend a hand.
“This issue supersedes all divisions and prejudices. Our aim is simply to serve others by supporting the established causes, and reaching out in compassion and generosity to those in need.”
The mosques involved in the project are Ghausia Mosque, Minhaj ul-Qur’an Mosque, Muhammadi Mosque, al-Hira Mosque, Talim ul-Qur’an Mosque and Madina Mosque.
The first food-drop of the project took place on Monday July 16 with over 1,400 food items donated by local people.
Mr Anwar said: “The Feeding Pendle and Beyond project has had an amazing response from the public, but we must keep in mind that this problem is not something that is going to disappear in the space of a fortnight, and we encourage everyone to continue giving generously.”
For more information on deposit points call 07794 700024.
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Comments (36)
4:26pm Tue 31 Jul 12
Izanears says...
5:39pm Tue 31 Jul 12
Reality50 says...
5:43pm Tue 31 Jul 12
coates warder says...
5:48pm Tue 31 Jul 12
2 for 5p says...
6:02pm Tue 31 Jul 12
cheatingdave says...
6:20pm Tue 31 Jul 12
coates warder says...
6:26pm Tue 31 Jul 12
mavrick says...
7:24pm Tue 31 Jul 12
BritainfortheBritish says...
7:27pm Tue 31 Jul 12
BritainfortheBritish says...
Africa has been given billions for some 30 years or more and still getting billions.
If kids in nelson etc are starving then maybe it,s because to much money is being sent to Africa and not being spent on our own.
7:48pm Tue 31 Jul 12
pronto123 says...
These are genuine people with genuine needs.
Needless to say that this is a national problem and not confined to the North.
Perhaps you should speak to school teachers throughout the UK where children are bringing a couple of slices of plain bread our biscuits.
Thanks you all helpers and canaries.
Don't make it political.
7:56pm Tue 31 Jul 12
2 for 5p says...
8:04pm Tue 31 Jul 12
Michael@ClitheroeSince58 says...
8:42pm Tue 31 Jul 12
WalksWalker says...
www.ilovenelson.co.u
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9:07pm Tue 31 Jul 12
asiancare says...
9:35pm Tue 31 Jul 12
Tim Wyse says...
This is how diversity works on planet earth....
ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsi
xmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
9:47pm Tue 31 Jul 12
hi everyone says...
10:16pm Tue 31 Jul 12
jack daniels says...
11:17pm Tue 31 Jul 12
2 for 5p says...
12:36am Wed 1 Aug 12
savethechildren says...
Whites are not having enough babies to replace themselves.
On top of that, highly fertile non-whites are brought into white living space (whites are not allowed to have countries exclusively for themselves or white institutions).
Overtime, what we see is assimilation/blendin
g at an increasing rate. Its happening, correct?
The end result of these two facts, given time, lead to the extinction of the white race.
Since it is obvious and targeted, its white genocide.
Agreed?
12:43am Wed 1 Aug 12
savethechildren says...
We see whites demoralized over the past 50 years enough that they are not having enough babies to replace themselves.
Then the anti-white global elites are forcing these highly fertile people into white living space creating the opportunities by mating/dating/raping to blend us with them.
Its happening. This is white genocide.
Its planned. we are targeted. its white genocide.
The elites will have a new work force which they think could be much more profitable to them.
12:51am Wed 1 Aug 12
Imran-Hanif says...
This project aims to help tackle this issue, and at the same time promote diversity and unity in the region.
There are always going to be critical people but I think this is a great way to help people those in need. It is better than waiting for the government to do something. We need more projects like this and give something back to the community.
8:46am Wed 1 Aug 12
Excluded again says...
Here we have a story about a number of Mosques joining a project set up by local churches to distribute food to people who are struggling to make ends meet from all communities.
Many of the same people who say they want the Muslim communities to integrate more are complaining that this a 'takeover' or a 'hidden agenda'.
So, if Muslims just do their own thing, they are refusing to integrate. But if they join in with non-Mulsim groups, they are taking over. Heads I win, tails you lose.
9:38am Wed 1 Aug 12
Tahir IG says...
9:44am Wed 1 Aug 12
BIG BOSS says...
10:01am Wed 1 Aug 12
Tahir IG says...
http://www.pendletod
ay.co.uk/news/local-
news/nelson-in-grip-
of-hidden-hunger-1-4
648015
http://www.lancashir
etelegraph.co.uk/new
s/burnleypendlerosse
ndale/9766154.Food_p
arcels_needed_to_hel
p_pupils_in_Nelson/?
action=complain&cid=
10477368
Also, please see below for more information on the problem at a national level:-
http://www.guardian.
co.uk/society/2012/j
un/25/breadline-brit
ain-growth-food-parc
els
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-england-ber
kshire-16049794
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-england-lee
ds-17804453
10:13am Wed 1 Aug 12
Izanears says...
10:23am Wed 1 Aug 12
Excluded again says...
It says there are families struggling to feed their kids. Which would mean kids going hungry or having to eat unhealthy crap rather than having a proper meal.
11:45am Wed 1 Aug 12
verbal discharge says...
The asian community is coming together to try and help the poorer members of the indeginous white population and I think that it is a good thing, and considering all the rhetoric on this site and the talk of non-integration and the asians isolating themselves.
Good work all involved.
12:32pm Wed 1 Aug 12
rashidhussain says...
6:29pm Wed 1 Aug 12
asiancare says...
3:45am Thu 2 Aug 12
rashidhussain says...
o.uk - please support us.
8:59am Thu 2 Aug 12
Chris P Bacon says...
7:09pm Thu 2 Aug 12
NelsonAsianButProudBritish says...
1:00am Mon 6 Aug 12
coates warder says...
9:35pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Rappide says...
9:43pm Fri 17 Aug 12
Rappide says...
Today people across the UK will struggle to feed themselves and their families. Redundancy, illness, benefit delay, domestic violence, debt, family breakdown and paying for the additional costs of heating during winter are just some of the reasons why people go hungry."
Nelson is not exempt from this and the situation is likely to worsen when Universal Credit is introduced in 2013/2014 as draconian measures will be made to get people to extend part time working to full time or benefits will be lost.
The Trussell Trust and other food providers are already having to increase their food banks because of increased demand and need.
I think it's great that there is some community spirit (whether it be Ramadan or whatever that brings it about) to provide for the needy and applaud them.