Muslim Students Association

Asalaamu alaykum all,

At the most recent Friday prayer, we spoke about the importance of service to humanity. I want to highlight one example
of Muslims making an amazing contribution. It’s a place called the UMMA Clinic in California. Please take the time to
watch the YouTube video below and visit the website. Insha’allah it will motivate all of us to do more for others.

About the UMMA Clinic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_p9dU5s3vg

Congresswoman Maxine Waters recognizes Umma Community Clinic’s achievements on its 10th Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7AXl4kvbOI

UMMA Community Clinic
http://www.ummaclinic.org

Wa alaykum asalaam

Project Downtown is an initiative that began with a few students that were dissatisfied. Dissatisfied with the plight of homeless and needy individuals in cities across the nation, dissatisfied with the blind eye that society has turned toward them, and dissatisfied to their own non-contribution to the betterment of their own communities. So they turned their dissatisfaction into action.

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Fulbright Scholars

10/3/2006The Fulbright Scholarship is one of the most prestigious – and competitive – grants available to college students. When Sohaib Mohiuddin and Sana Malik, who have been married for two years, each decided to seek the scholarship late last year, they were careful not to get their hopes up.

“We were really just praying that one of us would get selected,” Malik said. “It was beyond our wildest expectations that we’d both get picked.”
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VCU MSA has sponsored an orphan through Islamic Relief. We seek to raise $20 a week to help provide food, shelter, and schooling for this child. Please check often on our website and in our office for updates on the child. JazakAllah.

Please donate generously to help give Madeeha a new heart, InshaAllah.
www.helpmadeeha.com

“Madeeha is our daughter, our sister, our pride and joy. She is only 20 years old, and is a resident of the State of Virginia in the United States. She was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy and is desperately fighting for her life. According to the doctor she is in the end-stage of heart failure. There are no cure for restrictive cardiomyopathy except to have a heart tranplant. Her heart is weakening day by day. She does not have much time and we need your prayers and support to raise funds for her operation. She is admitted to Farifax Hospital, Heart and Vascular Institute. Please donate generously to save her life. May God Bless you!!! “