People received assistance in 2024
Projects Supported Globally
Because of you, we are reaching 4.3 million people in 2023 to help bring relief and break the cycle of poverty!
From Palestine to Lebanon to Sudan, and at home right here in Canada, you helped us deliver urgent help to families affected by conflict and disasters.
Your Sadaqa, Zakat and donations helped fund over 154 projects this year to,
- Sponsor 28,470 orphans
- Bring emergency humanitarian aid to 2,011,745 people
- Transform the lives of 1.6 million people through sustainable food, clean water and livelihoods
Every donation you made this year helped fill someone’s heart with happiness. Thank you for your continued generosity and care!
Follow your donation by reading our newly published 2024 Impact Report:
Together, we reached over 4.3 million people worldwide through more than 154 projects, bringing relief and hope. Jazak Allah khair for your continued commitment!
Make a Difference in 2025
Your Zakat funds some of our most crucial work, empowering families through food and nutrition supplies, shelter, education materials, agriculture supplies, and so much more.
At Islamic Relief Canada, we follow a scholar-verified Zakat Policy to ensure your Zakat reaches as many poor and needy people as possible to transform their lives. Your donation is not just a simple transaction but a means to uplift and transform!
This year, consider sponsoring an orphan and filling the gap in their lives. Our Orphan Sponsorship Program supported over 28,000 orphans this past year alone, protecting their well-being, safety, health, education, and social environments!
By committing to supporting the most vulnerable members of our global community, you remind them that they are not alone.
Project Highlights
Impact of Emergency Responses
Our emergency responses assess the urgent needs of the community and implement tailored life-saving humanitarian aid. We work efficiently to ensure the most vulnerable have access to food, clean water, shelter, and basic services such as education, sanitation, and healthcare.
Our Top Emergency Responses in 2024:
- Gaza Emergency Appeal
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Sudan Emergency Appeal
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Lebanon Emergency Appeal
- Afghanistan Earthquake Response
- Bangladesh Floods Appeal
60 Projects
2,011,745 Rights-Holders
Development Projects
Our development projects address a number of cross-cutting issues at the same time, providing long-term sustainable and community oriented solutions. This ensures both an amplified impact and sustainable change.
We design our projects to combine multiple sectors:
59 Development Projects
1,691,225 Rights-Holders
Ramadan, Qurbani & Eid
Across 23 countries, we reached 479,851 individuals in 2024 with Ramadan food packs, Qurbani meat, and Eid gifts for children.
With your support, we distributed food packs in impoverished communities to provide relief during the blessed month of Ramadan. Food packs contained an average of 56 kg of food this year, helping families enjoy warm meals for the entire month.
132,436 People
People Were Sustained This Ramadan Because of You, across 15 Countries
Over 35 years, we have developed an efficient and reliable Qurbani process. This includes buying high-quality animals from local farms and on Eid, ensuring your sacrifice is done humanely, hygienically, and without waste.
329,371 People
Received Qurbani Meat on Eid, Across 23 Countries
Your kindness gifted smiles to orphans and vulnerable children on Eid day through new clothes, shoes, school bags and educational material, toys, and sweets.
8,451 Children
Received Your Eid al-Fitr Gifts!
9,593 Children
Received Your Eid al-Adha Gifts!
A Story of Hope: Fadi’s Father in Syria
“The shift from our old tattered tent to a house with a stable roof over our heads has brought so much comfort, security, and joy to us!
This is not just a simple house but rather a place that carries within its walls our beautiful memories and our aspirations for a better future.”
At 52 years old, Fadi’s father has experienced unimaginable loss and pain. The Syrian civil war displaced his family from their home in northern Hama and resulted in the loss of 2 sons. After a years-long journey of displacement, his family finally settled in Salqin, a town in northern Syria near the Turkish border, to call their new home.
In February, the earthquakes that struck Turkiye and northern Syria destroyed this new home.
Through Islamic Relief’s shelter project in response to the earthquake, Fadi’s family were provided with a housing unit to entirely call their own! With complete ownership over their new home, his family has full access to three rooms, a kitchen, and bathroom.
For families in search of safety and shelter like Fadi’s, your support acts like the comfort and warm embrace of home.
Our Commitment to Transparency
It costs money to deliver aid and to do it well, ensuring the people who need it most receive the best possible support and ensuring that money goes to where it is needed.
Islamic Relief ensures that it gets the best value for money to help deliver aid on the ground as well as raise more funds for the people who need it the most.
Islamic Relief believes in transparency and accountability. Information on admin costs and annual financial statements are readily available here. Our financial statements are independently verified and audited. 2024 audited financial statements are scheduled to be completed in June 2025.
Our 2024 Impact Summary Report has been published here. A more detailed report, including information on our charitable expenditure and governance structures, will be available in the summer of 2025.
Follow Your Donation
Did you know you can follow where your donations go?
Click to watch our video series, Follow Your Donation, and read through our reports to see the impact of your donations, the people you’ve helped, and all the incredible stories that happen along the way.