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		<title>DriveFruit: Warm Winter Fruit 3/3</title>
		<link>http://www.halfdate.com/blog/2010/02/28/drivefruit-warm-winter-fruit-33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the result of Warm Winter DateDrive. Alhamduillah, was seemed to be impossible, now it&#8217;s accomplished. All thanks and praise are due to Allah. May Allah reward all those who helped and may Allah thank you for your efforts. As salaamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. In the Name of Allah The Most Gracious, [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is the result of <a href="http://halfdate.com/2010/01/28/warm-winter-in-memory-of-abu-samah/">Warm Winter DateDrive.</a></p>
<p>Alhamduillah, was seemed to be impossible, now it&#8217;s accomplished. All thanks and praise are due to Allah.</p>
<p>May Allah reward all those who helped and may Allah thank you for your efforts.</p>
<blockquote><p>As salaamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. </p>
<p>In the Name of Allah The Most Gracious, The Most Beneficent</p>
<p>AlhamdulliAllah Rabil Alamin. We have reached our goal. Again we cannot express our gratitude with words of how we are thankful of your support. We pray to Allah SubhaanAllah wa ta&#8217;Allah that each and everyday that we are making progress each and every nail, sweat, purchases, and payment to the workers to complete the renovation of the home and when completed that Allah, He The Almighty Sovereign Lord give you all the good of this life and the hereafter and expiate one of your sins for each day a family is housed and assisted because of your Duaas and support. </p>
<p>Ameen Make Duaa that another home from another city, state, country is build or set up for helping homeless families or homeless women or men insha&#8217;Allah. </p>
<p>There are other problems in our community such as substance Abuse, Alcolhol,Mental Health, and Domestic violence. This is something we face each and everday operating a shelter for those in need in our community it is reality that the community at large have to accept and do something about it insha&#8217;Allah Again JazakAllahu Khayr for everything. </p>
<p>Should you still want to make a contribution on a monthly bases please visit our website at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.almumtahinahhome.org/">http://www.almumtahinahhome.org/</a> and place you donations online or you can mail in your contributions.</p>
<p>Nadia Auxila McIntosh
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		<title>DriveFruit: Warm Winter Fruit 2/3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the result of Warm Winter DateDrive. The following is an email from Sister Nadia of Women Affairs of AMH, Inc regarding this family. As salaamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. May this message reach you in the best of Iman. We have taken the remaining balance of the donations to her and took [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is the result of <a href="http://halfdate.com/2010/01/28/warm-winter-in-memory-of-abu-samah/">Warm Winter DateDrive.</a></p>
<p>The following is an email from Sister Nadia of Women Affairs of AMH, Inc regarding <a href="http://www.halfdate.com/blog/2010/02/14/leave-them/">this family</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>As salaamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu.</p>
<p>May this message reach you in the best of Iman.  We  have taken the remaining balance of the donations to her and took pictures of her  and her children Boy 5 months and Girl 2 or 3 years?</p>
<p>Her husband was in school at  ITT Tech and he is doing fine we believe he won  an honored scholarship from ITT and they are making sure that he finds a good job insha&#8217;Allah (God willing).</p>
<p>Sister Jasirah is very grateful and  expressed the negative she had gone through with the Ummah locally when seeking assistance.  We had to reassure her, not everyone is negative and what everyone has done  for you with the help of Allah is what we as Muslims do for one another.</p>
<p>This is our duty for one another.  So have no worries pray, do the best you can, be the best Muslimah that you can be and  be patient and all kind of doors will be open for you and your family.  Allah has just given you a sign when you thought you had no help.</p>
<p>She did call and left a message insha&#8217;Allah you had received it.</p>
<p>Salaam.</p>
<p>Nadia A.McIntosh</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Voice Message from Sister Jasirah:</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">(Sister Jasirah With Her Children)</p>
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		<title>I Was Homeless Too&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a comment from a sister about our Warm Winter Drive to help Homeless Muslims: &#8220;Thank you so much for this link [http://bit.ly/saveourfamilies].  I actually spent the past 6 months in a homeless shelter because when I converted, me and my two children were kicked out of my mother&#8217;s home.  This place was horrible for me, [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is a comment from a sister about our <strong><a href="http://halfdate.com/currentdrive/">Warm Winter Drive</a></strong> to help Homeless Muslims:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thank you so much for this link [<a rel="nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/saveourfamilies" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/saveourfamilies</a>].  I actually spent the past 6 months in a homeless shelter because when I converted, me and my two children were kicked out of my mother&#8217;s home.  This place was horrible for me,  they were horrible to me because I was a Muslim.  A convert I know also spent time at the shelter there because he was kicked out of his mother&#8217;s house as well.  Before that I spent another 3 months in a Domestic violence shelter because of an abusive marriage.  I wish there was a homeless shelter for Muslims during my time on the streets with my children.  I am in college now and Alhumdilah I am in a stable apartment, I still do not have my kids with me.  Inshallah things will change soon.  I donated some of my zakat to them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Salamualaikum,</p>
<p>Sister J</p></blockquote>
<p>Please also contribute to this drive with donations or a pleasant word so our Muslim Brothers and Sisters have a warm winter this year.</p>
<p>May Allah (SWT) reward you with the sweetest date in Jannah, ameen!</p>
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		<title>More People Become Homeless</title>
		<link>http://www.halfdate.com/blog/2010/01/16/more-people-become-homeless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is really touching, especially seeing children living in homeless shelters or stressed for economic hardship. Watch the video at ABC 20/20 Recession Through the Eyes of the Children Related Links: Everyone Deserves A Roof (EDAR)]]></description>
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<p>This video is really touching, especially seeing children living in homeless shelters or stressed for economic hardship.</p>
<p>Watch the video at <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7103581&amp;page=1" target="_blank">ABC 20/20 Recession Through the Eyes of the Children</a></p>
<p>Related Links: <a href="http://www.edar.org/" target="external">Everyone Deserves A Roof (EDAR)</a></p>
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