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| Orphans from Afghanistan Need Homes |
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| sis |
| 03/20/02 at 09:15:30 |
| alsalamu alaykum wa rhmat Allah wa barakatuhu...i recieved this as a fwd....if anyone is interested please use the contact numbers below..this is a really amazing opportunity for those that can help....just remember all the ayahs and hadiths that mention the importance of taking care of orphans jazakum Allahu khayr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is an American non-Muslim agency who has brought to Los Angeles 570 Afghan Orphans from Afghanistan. These orphans are at various ages, starting from newborn until about 10 years of age. These beautiful children are waiting to be adopted by us here in the US. If they don't find a home with afghans/muslims, they will be adopted by non-Muslims. Those seriously interested in adopting child(ren), call : [Edited by Admin] To be placed on the adoptive family list, you can call the above telephone to provide your name, address, and phone and applications will be mailed to you. Other detail I should add, is that these children will receive full governmental aid until legal adult age, 18 years. Walaikum as salaam |
| 03/27/02 at 23:10:36 |
| jannah |
| Re: Orphans from Afghanistan |
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| jannah |
| 03/26/02 at 03:45:54 |
| assalamu alaikum. forward i received on this: how r u ?? i got some kind of info regarding the adoption thing. there is a fax we received about how to go about adopting the afghan children. here's the details: 1. If they are a licensed foster paretn, they would have to call The Child Sponsorship Department at IARA-USA, the phone number is 573 443-0166. The e-mail address is iaraosp@hotmail.com. or they can also call Sister Razia Sadat at 818 772-7691/818 705-1040 in L.A., California. 2. If they are NOT a licensed foster parent, they must take the steps to obtain one by contacting thier State's Division of Family Services to find out how they can become licensed. |
| Re: Orphans from Afghanistan Need Homes |
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| Noera |
| 03/26/02 at 14:32:41 |
| [slm], I got this message regarding helping the Afghan refugees in California. [wlm] Niswa Association P.O Box 1403 Lomita, CA 90717 Muslim Homes for Afghanistan Orphans Dear Brothers and Sisters Asslau-Aliku Wa Rhmatullah The intention of this letter is to ask for your help and support in finding Muslim homes for orphaned Afghan Children who are being brought to the United States. On 3/16/02 a meeting was held in Van Nuys, CA to educate families on how to become Foster Parents or adopt a child. At that meeting, it was brought to our attention that 529 Afghan women and children are goinc to be brought to the United States of which, some are mothers and daughters, 217 of them are orphans, and 45 of these children who are girls ages 6 to 14 years old have already arrived Southern California almost two months ago. It is the intention of “Niswa” (An Islamic Family Outreach Organization) to assist in placing these orphans with Afghan and Muslim families. To be able to participate in either Foster Parenting or Adoption government programs, we need an immediate response from you to be willing to go through the process of obtaining certification for Foster Parenting. Please note that without having the proper certification documents, one will not be able to care for these children as Foster Parents. For information on how to become Foster Parents, Los Angles County Residence, please call (888) 811-1121, other counties, please contact your local county Department of Children and Family Services or your local Family Foster Care and Adoption agencies listed on your local Smart Yellow Pages Telephone Directory. Please contact your Afghan Niswa Committee after you have been certified by your agency or county at the following telephone and fax numbers between the hours of 3 to 8 PM Los Angeles time. A.Mohammad Daoud Abedi (818) 874-9373, Fax (818) 874-9374 B.Gabriel and Zohra Veach (909) 779-0084 Please note that general policy of the local government is “first come first served” and there is no guarantee that the children will be available as time passes by. Niswa Afghan Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Niswa Association P.O. Box 1403 Lomita, CA 90717 _____________________________________________________________ Over the years Niswa has made a continuous effort to recruit Muslim foster parents by providing them with relevant information, encouragement and support to get certified. Our efforts have not met with the degree of success that we aimed for. Now with the news that Afghan orphans and women and their children are arriving here, we are renewing our efforts to recruit foster families in anticipation. We also appeal to the community to inform us if they have a guest room available for the women should we be able to access them. We are endeavoring to get more factual information of the whereabouts of these orphans and women, but in the meanwhile we want us to be prepared. If you are interested, please attend one of the following informational meetings on “ how to become a foster parent”. First Meeting: Islamic Center Of Garden Grove 952 W. 13th Street Garden Grove, CA 92844 Tel: (714) 531 – 1722 Date: Saturday March 30th, 2002 Time: 10:00 AM to 1:00PM Second Meeting: Islamic Center of Northridge (Grenada Hills Masque) 11439 Encino Ave. Grenada Hills, CA 91344 Cross Streets: Between White Oak & Balboa & Rinaldi Tel: (818) 772 – 0906 Date: Sunday March 31, 2002 Time: 10:00AM to 1:00PM ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Niswa Afghan Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| NS |
| 03/26/02 at 14:33:50 |
| Noera |
| Re: Orphans from Afghanistan Need Homes |
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| Caraj |
| 03/27/02 at 19:51:24 |
| I spoke with a very nice brother at 818-874-9373 and he told me he has been in touch with a social worker about these children. He was told something about the military/government having custody currently and he is trying to find out where the children are. He gave me his web site to visit www.niswa.com My hearts hurts not knowing where these children are. This brother I talked with is working up to 20 hours a day trying to help these children. If Afgan children are being brought into my country I want to know they are being love and cared for and are available to wonderful homes. That their needs are being met. I can imagine these children are scared. I would be if I was brought to a new and different country. Also the lady whose number is in the first post requests her numbers be taken off. I spoke with her today. |
| 03/27/02 at 20:00:03 |
| Caraj |
| Re: Orphans from Afghanistan Need Homes |
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| jannah |
| 03/27/02 at 22:43:50 |
| cara which number are you talking about? this is a forward i got about the issue... Assalamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Sorry for the barrage of emails regarding this issue, but I received additional messages seeming to suggest that there are actually Afghani orphans up for adoption in LA. Attached is a forward from the MSA of Memphis in support of this. Secondly, the following pointed out by Nadeem Siddiqi is excellent advice for all of us, especially those considering adoption: ... when dealing with adoption ... you can't just walk [into] an agency and say "I'll adopt two kids." So even if the Afghan orphan story was true, most people would not be able to adopt them right away ... agencies have a very strict process of checking people who wish to adopt through them, including background criminal etc. checks. All of this takes time, after which the person/family is placed on the agency's "eligible" list. If at that time children are up for adoption, those on the list are eligible to adopt. Speaking with some social workers, it seems there are very very few Muslim families who have actually gone through the process to be put on the eligible list. As a result, anytime new orphans come [Bosnia/Afghanistan/Somalia/etc] Muslims are not able to adopt, and they get upset over "missionary" conspiracies etc when in fact, we simply have not gone through the process to be registered. If we are serious, we should register now, for the future. Additionally, the contact info for the organization involved with the case of these Afghan children (or so I am told) is Niswa Association P.O Box 1403 Lomita, CA 90717 I do not have their email or telephone contact info. However, in a forwarded message I received (the email address of the original forwarder was omitted), the Niswa Association made the following request(s): To be able to participate in either Foster Parenting or Adoption government programs, we need an immediate response from you to be willing to go through the process of obtaining certification for Foster Parenting. Please note that without having the proper certification documents, one will not be able to care for these children as Foster Parents. For information on how to become Foster Parents, Los Angles County Residence, please call (888) 811-1121, other counties, please contact your local county Department of Children and Family Services or your local Family Foster Care and Adoption agencies listed on your local Smart Yellow Pages Telephone Directory. Please contact your Afghan Niswa Committee after you have been certified by your agency or county at the following telephone and fax numbers between the hours of 3 to 8 PM Los Angeles time. A. Mohammad Daoud Abedi (818) 874-9373, Fax (818) 874-9374 B. Gabriel and Zohra Veach (909) 779-0084 Please note that general policy of the local government is "first come first served" and there is no guarantee that the children will be available as time passes by. Additionally, an email message from AMANA <AMANA@theAMANA.org> provided the following email contact information: Florid9999@aol.com asifmasroor@hotmail.com I know nothing about the veracity of either the telephone contact information or email contact information, but as I have received more messages about this issue since my last email to this list, including messages saying that individuals did call those numbers and they were accurate, I thought I would provide the updated information. Again, if any of you try the phone numbers and find that they are incorrect, please let me know so we do not have to have any wasted efforts, if that is the case. Jazakum Allahu khairan. Wassalam, Umair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded Message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Muslim Students Association of Memphis" Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:42:45 -0600 Subject: [Chicago-Net] Concerning the Adoption of the Afghani Orphans Muslim Students Association of Memphis: Masjid An-Noor Community Center 3529 Mynders Avenue Memphis, TN 38111 Tel: 901-432-0761 Fax: 901-432-0762 E-mail: msaofmemphis@hotmail.com URL: www.msaofmemphis.org As Salaamu Alaykum Warahmathulahi Wabarakathu, Some of you have contacted us from Memphis, Chicago and other communities regarding the e-mail for the Afghani orphans for adoption in L.A. The first thing we would like to mention regarding this e-mail is that we are NOT responsible for this program, an organization knows as the Niswaa Association is endorsing this program and we only forwarded the information for the benefit of the Muslims. Furthermore we would also like address the following issues: 1) This original information was forwarded to us by some brothers in our Memphis community and we were requested to send it out to the members on our lists so we did. 2) We later came to find out that unfortuantely, the telephone number on the original e-mail was not the correct number call concerning these orphans. However, the brother who's number it was (in the L.A. area) had left a general message instructing those calling him about the orphans to recheck their information and to also let him know the correct information once they found out. 3) And that leads to the third point. A second e-mail concerning the orphans was sent out soon after the first. Again, one reliable brother from the Memphis community called those numbers (that are listed below in this e-mail) and did verify that these telephone numbers were LEGIT and they should be called for information regarding the orphans. He then let us know at Masjid An-Noor. 4) We did not mean for any e-mail to be sent out to the Chicago list, although our e-mail account does receive e-mails from the Chicago listserve. And we say this mainly in reference to the letter sent out yesterday to the Chicago listserve that was sent out by mistake and was meant for an individual thus we apologize for that error. With that said we also want to answer some other questions that were posed to us about what "type" of "adoption" our e-mail was talking about. First, we will repeat for clarification purposes, we are NOT reponsible for this adoption program so please do not contact us regarding this program (again the correct contact info in L.A. is at the end of this e-mail). We only forwarded the information for the benefit of the Muslims and Insha'Allah in hopes of finding these orphans homes in the Muslim communities. But it should be said we at MSA/Masjid An-Noor obviously do not support any type of program, activity or the like that would contradict the Islamic Shariah. And questions/comments/concerns that say otherwise should be directed to us for further clarification using any of the aforementioned contact information. The correct contact information for the orphans is as follows. Please call these Muslims in the Los Angeles area and not Masjid An-Noor regarding this program. Also a MS Word document is attached to this e-mail with this and additional information 1. Mohammad Daoud Abedi (818) 874-9373, Fax (818) 874-9374 2. Gabriel and Zohra Veach (909) 779-0084 Insha'Allah we hope that this will resolve any confusion caused by these recent e-mails and we pray that Allah SWT provides sound Islamic homes for these Muslim children. Jazzakumallahu khayran. Wasalaamu Alaykum MSA of Memphis |
| NS |
| 03/27/02 at 22:45:42 |
| jannah |
| Re: Orphans from Afghanistan Need Homes |
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| Caraj |
| 03/27/02 at 23:05:13 |
| Jannah this is the lady I talked to today . Those seriously interested in adopting child(ren), call : Razia Sadat (owner of Afghan store) store: 818.772.7691 Mon-Sat. 10am-8pm home: 818.705.1040 She was very nice and did not know who put her phone numbers on the board, Said she never goes on the internet She would like her number taken off if thats ok Another person I talked to today which she refered me to was Mohammad Daoud Abedi ;-) he was very nice and very kind. He said I could refer to our conversation on these boards. He said he did not know where these children are and is in touch with a social worker. Has been. Today he also talked to her. I gave him this web site to look in on www.jannah.org :-* He gave us this web site www.niswa.com He said we feels he is being given the run around. Thatn he was told these children were in military or government custody currently. He heard more were coming next month. |
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