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Türkiye Diyanet Foundation
Türkiye Diyanet Foundation was established on March 13, 1975, as a continuation of this act of goodness by the Head of Religious Affairs Dr. Lutfi Dogan, Vice Presidents of Religious Affairs Dr. Tayyar Altinkulaç and Yakup Ustun, and Personal Affairs Director Ahmet Uzunoglu.
Türkiye Diyanet Foundation, which was established to support the activities of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, delivering religious services to a wider audience and raising the next generation who will take part in religious services, has become a significant civil society movement in our country today with 1,003 branches and a wide range of activities and international aid activities in 149 countries around the world, from education to culture, social and charitable services to supporting religious services.
Al-Khair Foundation
Al-Khair Foundation (AKF) is a UK-based Muslim charity, and although we’ve been engaged in charitable work from the outset, education was initially our key priority. After our UK schools proved to be a success, AKF started building schools overseas.
Our focus was educating orphans and children from underprivileged communities. This led to our work with widows and vulnerable women, and then to the establishment of the AKF shelters. Eventually we launched our water aid and livelihood projects, as well as the Al-Khair Foundation medical aid programmes. 2005 became a turning point for us, when AKF rose to the challenge of providing emergency aid during the Kashmir Earthquake of that year. This was our first venture into the area of Overseas Disaster Relief.
That October, and in the winter months which followed, AKF distributed food, shelter kits and medicine to survivors of the quake. Since then, AKF has undertaken emergency aid missions all over the world. Our support of the Haiti earthquake survivors was recognised by the United Nations in 2010.
While during the Japan earthquake of 2011, we were the only UK Muslim charity working with survivors on the ground.