Crescent Lifestyle donates over R500 000 to various charities
PARKTOWN – The beneficiaries include Gift of the Givers and the Ikageng Itereleng Aids Ministry
Crescent Lifestyle, a programme which caters to the Muslim community, donated thousands to schools and foundations which they feel have been playing an essential role in giving back to the community.
Based in Parktown, the organisation donated over R500 000 on 7 October to numerous beneficiaries as a part of its annual charity contribution. The beneficiary pay-out, which is contributed from the profits at Crescent Lifestyle is made annually to a wide variety of organisations. Crescent Lifestyle is a website and apps which connects the Muslim community and provides information such halaal restaurants within the area or the nearest masjid.
Among the beneficiaries were Gift of the Givers, a charity which provides disaster relief; the Ikageng Itereleng Aids Ministry, a community outreach programme which cares for children with Aids; and the Al-Munirah Centre which provides education to children with special needs.
Zeenat Patel-Kasker, the regional manager for Crescent Lifestyle Cape Town, opened the event and said that it is important to understand what money is being used for and be able to see the work the charities are involved with. “There is a lot emphasis on monitoring and evaluation.
“It’s important for those that provide funds to know where it is going and it’s important for the public to know what those organisations are doing with the funds.”
Al Firnas Patel, the founder of Crescent Lifestyle said, “With this payout today, since its inception Crescent Lifestyle has paid out in the last nine years a little over R4 million.” Patel emphasised that businesses and communities who work together will be able to help far more people. “Individually we can do good things but together we can do great things.”
Munirah Saley, the principal of the Al-Munirah Centre said the centre relies on donations and sponsorships in order to keep running. “These contributions help us run our centre and keep it open.
“Any little contribution, no matter how insignificant it may seem, R10 here or R5 there means that we can run our centre for one more month or one more year.”
In total R503 088 was donated to over 20 beneficiaries with Gift of the Givers receiving the most sizeable sum of R46 346.
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