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The charitable activities of IICO are global,
integrated and general in nature. They fall into the following
categories:
1) Emergency relief in cases of war and disasters.
2) Humanitarian assistance for orphans and destitute
families.
3) Empowerment of poor communities.
4) Educational assistance
5) Health and medical aids
6) Social and cultural services.
7) Building and maintaining Islamic Centers.
8) Aids to Moslem minorities.
Emergency relief programs
IICO emergency relief program offers immediate help for the
victims of war, civil conflicts, famines and natural disasters. In case of disasters, IICO provides immediate and sustained relief
funding for basic needs, medical aid, and daily living
requirements for the victims. IICO is conducting its relief aids through the offices of Kuwaiti
Joint Committee for Relief Aids. Kuwaiti Joint Committee for
Relief Aids is formed from members of all the governmental and
non-governmental charitable organizations working in Kuwait.
The objective of this committee is to insure coordination of all
charitable organizations in Kuwait to respond to the urgent needs
of the victims of calamities and disasters as fast as possible.
IICO is also co-operating with other international relief
organizations in order to strengthen IICO's capacity to mount an
effective and rapid response to these emergence cases.
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Humanitarian assistance for Orphans and destitute
Families
Apart from emergency relief aids, IICO offers humanitarian
assistance for the destitutes particulalry in countries that have
been afflicted with drought, famines, environmental disasters, and
other long standing adverse conditions.
IICO provides relief to the the destitute using all available
resources. Food is distributed to the victims; water-wells are
drilled to provide them with water for drinking and irrigation;
agricultural and other productive projects are established to help
re-settle the victims and enable them to rebuild their lives.
Taking care of orphans and destitute families is one of IICO's
most important goals, for there are thousands of orphans and
widows particularly in countries afflicted with wars and civil
conflicts, left behind without providers and are in desperate need
for help.
IICO spends a specific percentage of its aid as grants to orphans,
widows, and families that lost their breadwinner to help them
overcome a crises, begin a new life, or start self employment
project.
IICO offers several programs to offer orphans and destitute
children proper care and good education.
1. Orphans Sponsorship
2. Orphans Waqf project
3. Building and Supporting Orphanages
4. Establishing income-generating projects to support destitute
families
5. Co-operation with regional charitable organizations for the
welfare of
orphans and destitute children.
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Empowerment of poor communities:
Poverty is the most urgent, and challenging problem facing
humankind as it brings social division, social unrest, and
disharmony and hence high rate of crimes. Poverty affects not only
the poor but rather the whole community and not only poor
countries but the entire globe.
Studies stressed that unless the real causes of poverty are
uprooted it can not be eradicated. The key to poverty eradication
is the empowerment of the poor and to give them the opportunity to
be active agents of their own development.
For these reasons IICO adopted policy of empowering the needy so
that they become self-sufficient.
IICO is helping poor communities to invest their resources in the
best way possible to make them live in dignity and never be in
need again.
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IICO establishes productive projects that supply the needy with
both income and food and encourages self-employment and income
generated activities.
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Social and Cultural Services
IICO offers social services that meet the needs of the poor
communities in order to improve their living conditions.
IICO provides care for orphans, disabled children, and deprived
families in addition to other cultural, religious, and health
enhancement programs which strengthen the needy communities and
increase their productivity.
Further more, IICO offers financial support to religious
education and Islamic institutions both in Moslem and non-Moslem
countries.
IICO is working to spread religious awareness to strengthen
brotherhood ties, social security, and solidarity that will
eventually bring remarkable improvements in the life of the needy
communities.
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integrated community centers
Educational Assistance
Since education is the cornerstone in the development of poor
countries, IICO spares no effort in supporting education and
eradicating illiteracy. IICO's educational assistance to the poor
communities is considerably increasing year after year.
IICO funds schools, institutes, universities, community centers,
and mosques. Such institutions play an important role in educating
people and eradicating poverty through helping the needy become
active agents of their own development.
Further more, IICO offers financial support to religious education
and Islamic institutions both in Moslem and non-Moslem countries.
IICO distributes thousands of free copies of the Holy Quran,
Islamic books (in Arabic and other languages), as well as school
books to many Islamic centers and educational institutes around
the world.
IICO sponsors teachers and students and provides scholarships for
higher education in many universities and institutes around the
world.
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achievements
Medical
Aid and Health care
Medical aid is an essential element in the IICO's assistance to
the needy communities in particular at cases of emergencies.
IICO is not just providing medicine and urgent medical care but
also working to improve the adverse and unhealthy conditions in
poor communities that give rise to the spread of diseases and
complicated health problems.
Empowerment of poor communities and raising their standard of
living is the most important step toward eradication of diseases
and improving health conditions.
IICO has focused on building hospitals and health clinics that
provide health services of good quality to the needy people all
over the world. Most of IICO's Islamic centers include a medical
service unit.
Moreover, IICO is cooperating with other international/local
organizations to provide health services and medical supplies.
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achievements
Building and Maintenance of Islamic Centers
IICO pays particular attention to fostering relations with Islamic
institutions and centers throughout the Islamic world and in areas
of Islamic minorities.
These institutions play an important role in spreading Islamic
awareness and preserving the Islamic identity of Moslems, and
promoting their religion and languages.
In needy countries, IICO has built integrated Islamic centers and
institutions that offer social, educational, cultural and
religious services which benefit a large sector of poor people,
young and old, men and women. Every centers consists of a mosque,
a library, a lecture hall, and a health clinic.
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Aids to Moslem Minorities
IICO provides aids to Islamic centers and Islamic schools of
Moslem minorities to help them preserve their Islamic identity.
IICO is supplying them with free copies of the meaning of Holy
Quran in different languages as well as Islamic and Arabic books.
IICO also offers scholarships for Islamic education in famous
Islamic universities around the world such as Al-Azhar University
- Egypt, International Islamic university - Islam-Abad Pakistan,
Malaysian Islamic University, and Islamic universities in Niger
and Uganda.
Moslem minorities in many countries are benefiting from the
assistance offered by IICO.
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