How it works
How does your waqf share provide food aid around the world?
- You donate a £100 share to waqf, you always get to choose where you want the profit created to go. Whatever sector you choose, we honour that forever.
- We pool your donations with other supporters’ and collectively you purchase in a Sharia-compliant investment, in this case a low-risk property.
- Each year, 80% of profits go towards food aid projects such as hot meals, food parcels, or bread deliveries to families in emergency.
- 10% is reinvested into a property to create more income and impact, and 10% is used to maintain your waqf.
Today!
You donate a £100 share to waqf
Investment
We pool your donations
Each year
Each year, 80% of profits go towards emergency aid projects such as food, clean water, shelter to families in crisis.
Reinvestment
10% is reinvested into a property to create more income and impact, and 10% is used to maintain your waqf.
What can your waqf share achieve in 100 years?
£100
You donate £100
£1,370.78
Profit generated in 100 years (but your investment continues beyond this!): £1,370.78
2,300 hot meals
In 100 years, this could provide: 2,300 hot meals or 98 family food parcels to last a month.
What food aid will I provide?
Our projects are delivered in partnership with Human Appeal who have over 30 years’ experience and deliver aid in over 25 countries. Their food projects currently include:
Nourishing food parcels to last a family a month, containing local ingredients as well as staples such as beans, flour, sugar, rice, oil, and pasta.
Bread parcels, usually delivered weekly for several months, providing a secure source of food.
Hot meals, prepared with fresh local ingredients and require no cooking, ideal for crises
Treatment for child malnutrition.
Why direct your waqf to food aid?
Across the world, the scale and number of emergencies have overwhelmed communities. More than 18 million people are going hungry with acute food insecurity and more than 5 million people are just 1 step away from famine. 700,000 children are severely malnourished, and 90% of people in conflict zones rely entirely on humanitarian aid.
Donating you waqf to our food aid projects ensures that you continue to help families struggling simply to eat. Every year, your waqf investment will provide them with nourishing food.
“We will likely see a famine that we haven’t seen in decades”
41-year-old Garang was forced to flee his home with his wife and five children when his home was torched by a militia. They’re taking shelter at a camp for displaced people in North Dafur, Sudan. Sometimes they go three days without eating. He watched helplessly as his wife and children try to quell the hunger by rolling soil from the ground with water and eat it.
Anette Hoffmann, of the Clingendael thinktank said, “Sudan’s war has created the world’s largest hunger crisis…we will likely see a famine that we haven’t seen in decades.”
Help us to fight malnutrition and support families enduring extreme hunger by investing your waqf to provide food aid.
Projects We Implement
Food Aid Waqf
Help families struggling simply to eat
Emergency Aid Waqf
More than 305 million people need humanitarian aid. Help families in crisis year after year.
Education Support Waqf
Help marginalised people to have access to clean water for years to come.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said,
“He is not a believer whose stomach is filled while his neighbour goes hungry.”
(Sunan al-Kubra, Sahih)
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FAQs
The Food Aid Waqf is a permanent charitable investment whose profits are used annually to provide food for families in need around the world — such as hot meals, food parcels, or bread distribution for families in emergency situations.
When you donate £100 as a waqf share, it is invested in a Sharia-compliant way — usually in a low-risk property. Each year, 80% of the profits are allocated to food aid projects, 10% is reinvested to increase future income, and 10% is used for maintaining the waqf.
Yes, you can choose which sector you want your waqf profits to support — such as food, water, or emergency aid — and we will honour your choice forever.
Because hunger has become a global humanitarian crisis — more than 18 million people suffer from acute food insecurity, and 700,000 children are severely malnourished. Through your waqf, you help provide sustainable food for families struggling to survive.
Yes, you can contribute any amount you wish. All donors’ contributions are pooled together to create a larger waqf investment that achieves a wider and more lasting impact.
Absolutely. All waqf investments are managed according to Islamic finance principles and are reviewed by qualified scholars to ensure full Sharia compliance.
