This guide offers resources and information to help the Muslim community alleviate the current orphan care crisis.

The following sections on this website include:

Why does this guide Matter in Addressing Orphan Care? 

  • Provides brief and general information before taking the journey of being a foster parent or a legal guardian.
  • Promotes the idea of caring for orphans and abandoned children.
  • Provides a map serves as a visual display and guides your community in working to connect and build relationships with services.
  • Guides you on how to access and refer to resources available in your local community, helping foster care families and guardians find support and assistance.
  • Develops a handout that will help you “map” your community and the network of services that you need to call upon and work with to provide a caring for children are in need of foster parents and save home.

Why do we need to publish such an extensive awareness brochure?

  • To raise awareness of the need of having more licensed Muslim foster families and legal guardians.
  • Raise awareness of the great need for a communal efforts to establish a compassionate community.
  • Encourage the Masajids/mosques, Islamic centers and the Muslim leaders, lawyers, scholars, Imams and activists be actively engaged in this project.