On New Year’s day when most people were tucked up warm in bed after celebrating saying goodbye to 2015 and welcoming 2016, young volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) were up at the crack of dawn to clean the streets in Glasgow.They picked up litter in the Yorkhill area, Kelvingrove, Argyle Street, Dumbarton…
COMMUNITIES across Yorkshire are still mopping up after the terrible floods that blighted the Christmas holiday.In times of adversity, Diary is always heartened to hear of community groups who are doing their bit to help those in the eye of the storm.Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association UK (AMYA) rushed to the scenes of…
Whilst many Croydonians were sleeping off a 1st January hangover, a bunch of local young people went to workBefore dawn on Friday 1st January, more than sixty young Muslim volunteers descended on the streets of Croydon to clean up following the New Year’s Eve festivities.Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA), were ready to…
Young Muslims from Sheffield, Huddersfield, Scunthorpe joined the city councils to help keep the streets clean after the New Year festivities.Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) were out in force doing their bit to rid the town centres of rubbish and debris left over the Christmas period. The big street clean was just…
COMMUNITY members visited residents at a care centre on Christmas day to extend season’s greetings and hand out chocolates. Members from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Slough and Burnham visited 50 residents at the Salt Hill Care Centre, in Bath Road, Slough, on Christmas Day to offer a bit of festive cheer on a day which…
A key figure in the Wolverhampton Muslim community hopes sharing a community meal with people in the area has helped bury misconceptions about people of his faith. The dinner, held at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque on Willenhall Road, was organised by Toby Ephram.He is the regional president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Society, and reckons the slap-up…
Youth leader Aamir Shahzad and his family are Ahmadiyya Muslims and don’t celebrateChristmas, but they will be delivering cards and gifts of home-cooked food to their neighbours and friends.And they will not be alone, as their community in Huddersfield is known for its generosity and desire to help others.Acts of kindness towards neighbours are an…
A KEIGHLEY youth organisation is bringing festive cheer to youngsters facing Christmas in hospital. Members of the Keighley Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) visited the children’s ward at Airedale to deliver toys, chocolates and cards.The items were donated by the town’s Ahmadiyya community.”As part of the teachings of Islam AMYA believes it is essential to…
BRITISH Muslim cabbies and shopkeepers have defied negative stereotypes of Islam by handing out Christmas cards to their customers. The cards have pictures of winter scenes with a season’s greetings and carry the slogan “Love for all, hatred for none”. Jessica Mee, 28, received one of these cards when she was getting a taxi home…
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