Al-Khair Foundation

It specialises in humanitarian support, international development, emergency aid and disaster relief in some of the world's most deprived areas.

Al-Khair Foundation aims to tackle issues prevalent in the UK, such as unemployment, education, women's empowerment and domestic violence.

That October, and in the winter months which followed, AKF's relief teams provided survivors with medicine, food, shelter kits and moral support.

[2] The Foundation aims to save lives in emergencies and provide for disaster zones with medical aid, food shelter.

It also aims to help the needy by adopting practical ways to root out poverty from the world through relief and development programmes in South Asia, the Middle-East, East Africa and United Kingdom.

AKF is also a member of the Coalition of Muslim NGOs [21] and participated in a Christian-Muslim Humanitarian partnerships workshop, hosted by the Lutheran world federation in Jordan in 2013.

[3][4] The founder and chairman of Al-Khair Foundation, Imam Qasim Rashid Ahmad, is largely involved in AKF's work in the UK and internationally.

[3][25][26] Dr Jafer Qureshi[27] a senior consultant psychiatrist based in Birmingham and is Al Khair Foundation's trustee.

He was formerly the a CEO of the UK charities Muslim Aid and Islamic Help, and was also the founder of the charities- Faith Regen foundation, MADE [30] and Global One.

[citation needed] In the United Kingdom, AKF has office in London (East Croydon and Bounds Green), Bolton, Glasgow, Sheffield, Leicester and Blackburn.

The group also operates in Bangladesh, Somaliland,[31] Kenya, Japan, India, Pakistan, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Albania, Myanmar, Philippines, Afghanistan, Haiti and Chile.