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First, charity starts at home. Beyond our family duties and responsibilities, its incumbent of all Muslims to give back to the Ummah (community)…and it should definitely NOT stop after the month of Ramadan.

Volunteer Ideas to Give Back to Your Community

• Volunteering Your Way in Your Kid’s School - Need some ideas? Here’s 79 Ways hubby, daddy and I volunteered at a local elementary school.
  
• Continue your Qur’an-a-thon Sadaqah pledges year-round, not just during Ramadan. Use the principals of studying the Qur’an, seeking pledges and making donations in your kids’ name.
  
• Have your kids decide how they want to volunteer any extra time…better yet, let them involve their skills, talents, interests and areas of expertise. Here’s what my girls are doing: S3 (S-cubed) STEM with the Sabra Sisters.  Additional ideas which we’ve done over the years include:

1. Volunteering at a horse rescue (because they’re horse riders),
2. Volunteering at public library events (because we could not homeschool without a library),
3. Volunteering to tutor other homeschoolers or school-kids in subjects the girls are strong at (ie. Arabic, Math, Science)

• Volunteer as a Muslim Family for the benefit of the local ummah. In our 99 Tips to Help Kids Fast during Ramadan, you can get *many* ideas, or at least inspirations to figure out ways to volunteer directly in your local ummah.
• Volunteering in the local homeschool community. You can search our archives for links of most of these: but I’ve done just about everything imaginable: organized a Physics Day for Homeschoolers at a local amusement park with nearly 150 homeschool family members, led Math coop, taught Invention curriculum, moderated homeschool online groups, organized homeschool gym classes, sports days, private museum classes, field trips, park days, tutor other kids…you get the idea, right?) There’s SO much to do as most homeschool-related activities are all volunteer-based. MashaAllah.

Low on time? Here’s ma couple of places to make quick donations

• Participating in Virtual Campaigns to help build a historical Islamic Center of Murfressboro, TN
• Islamic Relief – You can pick the campaigns you want to contribute your donations.

So, What Ideas and Ways Do You Give Back to Your Local Community? Have creative ways to share with us? Or, typical normal “volunteer” ideas, that even though everyone knows about how and where to do those activities, but never has enough volunteers present? We’re hear to support the mostly thank-less volunteer efforts you make…we want to acknowledge your efforts for the sake of Allah, inshaAllah. Please share.

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What Ways Do You Give Back to Your Community? is a post from: American Muslim Mom Blog

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