One of my favorite things about #Ramadan is its emphasis on giving & empathy for others.

In keeping with my now 1-yr old tradition, for each of the 30 days of Ramadan, I'll be spotlighting 30 charities or causes--some intl, some US-based.

Follow along with #30Days30Causes.

Day 1 of #30Days30Causes: The 25 January Hospital Foundation @25hospital in Egypt is dedicated to offering free medical treatment to those in need.

In addition to medical services, the foundation also serves the broader community through giving campaigns https://25hospital.org/campaigns 

Day 2 of #30Days30Causes: The Navajo Nation reported 1,197 COVID-19 cases & 44 deaths this wk. If it were a state, it would rank 3rd in the country for cases/100k population.

The Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund works to address medical/community needs https://www.nndoh.org/donate.html 

Day 3 of #30Days30Causes: Syria Relief and Development ( @SyriaRandD) is providing primary health care services, chronic disease surveillance, psychological support, medicine, shelter, clean water, and nutritional baskets to families in Northwest Syria https://srd.ngo/main_donation/ 

Day 4 of #30Days30Causes: Off Their Plate supports restaurants in Boston, NY, SF, LA, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Chicago, DC & Philly to meet COVID-19-informed food protocols, provide work for vulnerable staff & cook/deliver meals to frontline healthcare workers https://offtheirplate.org 

Day 5 of #30Days30Causes: @SOME_DC is working to help and support DC residents experiencing homelessness and poverty by providing affordable housing, counseling, addiction treatment, job training, and daily needs (food, clothing, healthcare) https://www.some.org/ 

Day 6 of #30Days30Causes: Immigrants and their families across the country are being left out of urgently needed COVID-19 relief.

This campaign encourages folks to contribute portions of their stimulus checks in order to support DMV area families: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ydm826-donate-your-stimulus-check-to-immigrant-families?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-158817984166-308adb444ff74b48&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b

Day 7 of #30Days30Causes: +1 million Uyghurs have been placed in concentration camps in China. However, many of those who've managed to leave and have become refugees, face poverty, psychological trauma, unemployment, and lack of medical support https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/uyghur_ramadan_relief?src=LG-OptinUyghurCovid#!/

Day 8 of #30Days30Causes:

@NisaHomes is a group of transitional homes (long-term shelters) for Muslim women and children in Canada who are experiencing domestic abuse, homelessness, or forced resettlement: https://www.nisahomes.com/ 

Day 9 of #30Days30Causes: Every day, nearly 2,000 dogs & cats are killed in animal shelters across US because they don't have a home.

@Bestfriends works with communities to save the lives of pets & does nationwide advocacy to bring about long-term change: https://bestfriends.org/ 

Day 10 of #30Days30Causes: @autismspeaks is dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum & throughout the life span, for the needs of people with autism & their families. Autism Speaks is committed to making 2020 the "Year of Kindness." More here: https://www.autismspeaks.org/ 

Day 11 of #30Days30Causes: @Basmehzeitooneh started off in 2012 w/ 5 volunteers working to serve Syrian refugees in the Shatila camp in Beirut.

Today, they're running programming through 6 community centers in Lebanon & 2 in Turkey for Syrian refugees https://www.basmeh-zeitooneh.org/ 

Day 12 of #30Days30Causes: 785 million people in the world live without clean water. Access to clean water means education, income, and health--especially for women and kids.

charity:water ( @charitywater) is tackling this crisis with sustainable solutions https://www.charitywater.org/ 

Day 13 of #30Days30Causes: 1 out of 10 residents of the metropolitan Washington region is food insecure. Nearly ⅓ of them are children.

Capital Area Foodbank @foodbankmetrodc is providing healthy food to people struggling with hunger & food insecurity: https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/ 

Day 14 of #30Days30Causes: The Rainforest Foundation @RainforestUS is dedicated to protecting the rainforests of Central and South America by working with the indigenous communities that call them home. https://rainforestfoundation.org 

Day 15 of #30Days30Causes: Hospitals are running out of equipment to protect themselves and patients across the United States.

@MedSupplyDrive is working to help with the PPE crisis in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases: https://www.medsupplydrive.org/ 

Day 16 of #30Days30Causes: Coronavirus has shut down schools, leaving kids in need without Internet access or home libraries unable to keep reading.

@FirstBook is working to deliver 8 million books to kids who wouldn't have them otherwise https://firstbook.org/ 

Day 17 of #30Days30Causes: 303,000 women die around the world as a result of complications of pregnancy & childbirth every year. That's 1 woman every 2 minutes.

@everymomcounts is working to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother everywhere: https://everymothercounts.org/ 

Day 18 of #30Days30Causes: @endrapeoncampus works to end campus sexual violence through direct support for survivors and their communities; prevention through education; and policy reform at the campus, local, state, and federal levels. https://endrapeoncampus.org/ 

Day 19 of #30Days30Causes: @nokidhungry is working to serve 4.5 million healthy meals a day during the Covid-19 crisis, by giving emergency funding to schools and community groups and working with local councils across the country https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog/how-your-donations-help-kids-affected-coronavirus

Day 20 of #30Days30Causes: @INARAorg provides life-altering medical care for children from conflict areas who have injuries/illnesses.

This Ramadan, they're working to provide continued treatment to children & access to Covid-19 emergency response kits https://www.inara.org/ 

Day 21 of #30Days30Causes: The International Refugee Assistance Project ( @IRAP) provides free direct legal representation, systemic advocacy, and litigation support for refugees and displaced people in need of a safe place to call home: https://refugeerights.org/ 

Day 22 of #30Days30Causes: @MuslimAdvocates works in the courts, the halls of power, and in communities to tackle bigotry. You'll find them working in the religious freedom, hate crime, discrimination, law enforcement bias, corporate accountability spaces: https://muslimadvocates.org/ 

Day 23 of #30Days30Causes: ISeeYou Foundation is creating & distributing monthly hygiene packages, clothing, snacks & water for people experiencing homelessness in the DMV; coordinating monthly grocery runs for shelters; & distributing grocery gift cards https://www.isyfoundation.org/ 

Day 24: @SmileForCharity's campaign Rose for Ramadan provides families across the New Jersey area with a care basket of basic foods like olive oil, dates, rice, and honey, as well as a gift card to a local halal butcher https://www.smileforcharity.org/rose-for-ramadan/

Day 25: With programs from Greece to Yemen, @MedGlobalOrg is working to respond to the world’s humanitarian crises by partnering with local communities to provide innovative, sustainable, and dignified healthcare: https://medglobal.org/creating-a-world-without-healthcare-disparity/#mission_vision

Day 26: Through health education, advocacy, research, and training, @hearttogrow is dedicated to ensuring that all Muslims have the resources, language, and choice to nurture sexual health and confront sexual violence: https://heartwomenandgirls.org/ 

Day 27 of #30Days30Causes: @BKBailFund works to secure the freedom of New Yorkers who would otherwise be kept in pretrial detention due to their poverty alone.

Always an important initiative, but particularly urgent as Covid-19 spreads https://brooklynbailfund.org/ 

Day 28 of #30Days30Causes: In the US, ~20% of children
live in families with an income below the federal poverty threshold. ~2x that number live in homes that struggle to put food on the table.

Today is @RedNoseDayUSA, dedicated to ending child poverty: https://rednoseday.org/home?utm_source=NoTVHeader

Day 29 of #30Days30Causes: DC's Family & Youth Initiative @DC_FYI works to support older teens in the foster care system by connecting them with adults willing to serve as a support system, whether as mentors, host parents, or adoptive parents https://www.dcfyi.org/ 

Day 30 of #30Days30Causes: @ACLU, a personal favorite of mine, that works to realize the promise of the Constitution & to defend the rights enshrined into it. Though all their work is important, their Covid-19 response--esp in prisons--has been life-saving https://www.aclu.org/