By TCN News,
Washington DC (USA): Building houses for Muzaffarnagar riot victims, providing relief to flood affected people in Kashmir and a huge library in a high school in Gujarat are among the top projects that the Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) undertook in the 2014-15 year.
Brighton School, Ahmedabad. Construction of library rooms in progress
“The AIM, founded in 1985, thirty years ago, has been running several programs and projects over the years to help improve education in the community in India, to provide relief help to them to recover from communal riots and natural disasters, and to promote communal harmony between Muslims and others,” a release from AIM said here.
The following projects were taken up by the AIM (http://www.AimAmerica.org) in the last one year:
1. Muzaffarnagar (UP): The AIM provided $2,000 in relief help for victims of the communal riots in Muzaffarnagar to build houses for victims who became homeless due to the horrible communal riot there in 2013.
2. Gaza (Palestine): Provided $2000 in relief help for victims of Israel’s military attack in 2014 on the civilian population in Gaza, Palestine.
3. Kashmir: Provided $2000 in relief help for victims of the massive flooding in the Kashmir valley in 2014.
4. Delhi: Provided $10,000 to the Bachhon-ka-Ghar, an orphanage in Delhi, to build a computer center to train children, and to provide new lockers, cabinets and other useful items for the boys and girls living there.
5. Kumta, Karnatak: Provided $40,000 to build two small buildings for the expansion of the existing building of the Ideal Junior High School, the school of the local Muslim community, to reduce overcrowding in the school that has an enrollment of 700 students.
6. Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Provided $5,000 to build a library for the Brighton Junior High School, a school in the very poor Muslim locality. School has enrollment of about 600 students.
Brighton Junior High School, Ahmedabad,located in a poor Muslim neighborhood. AIM has helped build a library and other facilities there.
7. Hyderabad, Telengana: Provided $5,000 to build a Girls Tailoring Academy, a vocational training center for poor Muslim girls to train them in modern export quality garments (shirts, pants, uniforms, embroidered fancy garments etc.) tailoring techniques, to help them get employment.
“The Academy is being built by IHOPE, a charitable organization in Alam Tank, Hyderabad,” the release added.