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In Sudan, Breaking Your Fast Is Not a Given. We Are Making Sure It Is.
We are in the last 10 nights of Ramadan; the holiest stretch of the Islamic year. In Sudan, families are living through one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world right now. Our teams are on the ground, delivering hot Iftar meals every single night. Your Zakat has never had a more powerful place to land.
Sudan Is in Crisis. Ramadan Does Not Stop the Hunger. But You Can.
Sudan is experiencing one of the most severe humanitarian crises on the planet. Years of conflict, displacement, and economic collapse have left millions of families without reliable access to food, shelter, or safety. For these families, Ramadan is not a month of abundance, it is a month of survival.
When the Adhan calls at Iftar, many of them have nothing to break their fast with. No warm meal. No table. No certainty that tomorrow will be any different.
Our teams have been on the ground in Sudan this Ramadan, preparing and distributing hot Iftar meals directly to the families who need them most sitting together, eating together, breaking their fast with dignity.
These are not statistics. These are people. Boys sitting cross-legged on mats, hands raised in du'a before the meal. Volunteers in yellow vests carrying buckets of food through dusty streets before sunset. Hundreds of plates laid out in rows; each one prepared with care, each one waiting for a hungry person to sit down.
We are in the last 10 nights of Ramadan. The Prophet ﷺ intensified everything in these nights; his worship, his giving, his presence. These are the nights that contain Laylatul Qadr, a single night worth more than a thousand months. What you give now carries a weight that no other moment in the year can match.
A family in Sudan should not spend these nights hungry. You can make sure they do not.
"Whoever feeds a fasting person will have a reward like theirs, without that detracting from the fasting person's reward in the slightest." - Tirmidhi
Yes. Contributions to our Sudan Iftar Meals program are fully Zakat-eligible. Sudan is one of the most critical humanitarian situations in the world right now; your Zakat given here goes directly to displaced families in the most urgent need, at the most spiritually powerful moment of the year.
Your Zakat. Their Iftar. Tonight.
Your Zakat reaches families on the ground.
Sudan
What Is Happening
War has emptied whole neighborhoods in Sudan. Families who had a home in the morning are sleeping somewhere else by the evening, and the markets that used to feed them are closed, looted, or priced out of reach.
What UMMA Is Doing
We work with local kitchens and volunteers who are already inside these communities. Together we cook and hand out hot meals, and we go back to the same places so families can count on it. Your donation buys the ingredients, the fuel, and the transport.
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Yes, to the extent allowed by law. You receive a receipt for every donation, and all of them are in My Donations, in the UMMA app or your dashboard on the web.
Can I give my Zakat to UMMA?
Yes, and only to campaigns marked Zakat eligible. Zakat is restricted to the categories in Surah At Tawbah (9:60), so UMMA will not let it be applied anywhere else. If no eligible campaign is open, we say so rather than route it elsewhere.
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What happens if it raises more than its goal?
It keeps accepting donations and the extra goes to the same work. A goal is what we planned for, not a cap on the need, and a campaign that has passed its goal is still the campaign you chose.
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