Skip to main content

Dublin Muslim Group Warns against Rising Homelessness

Every Friday night, the Muslim Sisters of Éire, a volunteer-based organization, distribute hundreds of hot meals to Dubliners living in destitution.

Running their soup kitchen outside Dublin’s GPO on O’Connell Street, the Muslim organization say they have been inundated with requests for sleeping bags, warning that homeless people would rather sleep out in the cold than go to a hostel.

“When our volunteers arrived this evening to set up, it was quite calm but soon they were inundated with requests for sleeping bags and tents,” the group posted on Friday, Sunday World reported.

“We brought 25 sleeping bags and all were gone.

“People prefer to sleep on the streets as hostels are not safe. There were families looking for lunches and basic shop because a lot of people have lost jobs.

“We had nearly 300 meals and within 45 minutes, everything was gone. This is in spite of restricting one meal per person as we knew we were low on hot food this week.”

They added: “We have ordered 100 sleeping bags this week and hoping to get more next week. Unfortunately, some of our volunteers are isolating due to COVID and contact tracing so we weren’t able to do a live feed again this week.”

📚 Read Also: Saving Muslim Nonprofits During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ongoing Effort

The Muslim Sisters of Eire (MSOE) is an independent organization of Muslim women living in Ireland.

Over the past five years, MSOE has been running weekly soup kitchens to help the homeless in Dublin, Ireland.

After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the group has noticed a significant increase in the number of people experiencing food poverty.

This is not the first time for the group to warn about increasing poverty and the issue of the suitability of hostels.

“A very busy and exhausting Friday evening,” they posted about the situation earlier this month.

“…Unfortunately, hostels are not a safe place for people to be in and people prefer to sleep in the streets rather than go into a hostel.”

According to the 2016 Pew Research Centre report, Ireland’s Muslim population stands at approximately 70,000.

Islam lays a great emphasis on the virtue of neighborliness, stressing on Muslims’ individual duty to be good to their neighbors.

The post Dublin Muslim Group Warns against Rising Homelessness appeared first on About Islam.



source https://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/europe/dublin-muslim-group-warns-against-rising-homelessness/
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

List of Times and Places Where Dua is Accepted

A short reminder regarding the recommended times of dua . And I think what you need to know here is that the recommended times of dua or recommended things that can cause your dua to be accepted, can be divided into two sort of large groups: Am I Good Enough to Make Dua for Myself? Situations where your dua is accepted. Times where your dua is accepted So I’m going to very briefly mention them one after the other as much as possible. As for situations where your dua has been accepted: – The person who has been wronged or oppressed . – A person who finds themselves in severe difficulty after a calamity has struck. – The person who is traveling. – Someone who is fasting. – The one who is reciting the Quran or has just recited the Quran – Someone who is performing Hajj or Umrah or jihad. – The one who is making dua for someone in their absence . Because we know that when you make dua for someone in his absence an angel says: “ Ameen and to you”. – A person...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Derechos de Las Mujeres en Islam

Durante el Tiempo del Profeta (la paz sea con él) Veamos cómo fueron tratadas las mujeres de todo el mundo durante la época del Profeta (la paz sea con él). En la Europa del siglo VIII, la religión principal era el catolicismo y durante este tiempo debatían si las mujeres tenían alma. Dijeron que las mujeres eran impuras y que no tenían derecho a la herencia. A las mujeres tampoco se les permitía tocar la Biblia. No era como ahora en el Islam, donde ellas no pueden tocar el Corán durante la menstruación, pero a las mujeres en la Europa del siglo VIII nunca se les permitió tocar la Biblia. En China e India, fueron quemadas vivas cuando murieron sus maridos. En Arabia Saudita practicaron infanticidio femenino en el que, si nacía una niña, la enterrarían viva. Si el marido de una mujer muere, un miembro de su familia se unirá a ella para demostrar que ahora es de su propiedad. Mujeres en el Islam Con el Islam llegó una nueva era para las mujeres. En el Islam, las mujeres tienen la...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Ghuraba (The Strangers): Nasheed with English Subtitles

Islam began as something strange, and it shall return to being something strange, so give glad tidings the strangers. (Sahih Muslim 145) This famous nasheed has many versions; this one is from Muhammad al-Salman and has the subtitles in English embedded. [We are] strangers and we do not bow the foreheads to anyone besides Allah  […] Transliteration to help in the pronounciation:  Ghurabaa’ wa li ghairillaahi laa nahnil jibaa Aisha Stacey  wrote in an article for Aboutislam.net : “I think that many of you would agree that being Muslim in the 21st century makes you well acquainted with being strange. It might even be a metaphor for random, as in you have been randomly selected. […] many converts to Islam will tell you about feeling as if they were strangers, before finding Islam. They will speak of feeling that they belonged somewhere else that their lives were just slightly off center. They often speak about a vague sense of knowing they were not like everyone else...
Post a Comment
Read More »