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Keeping Active Inflatable Challenge

salaamcleveland@admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:20:40 +0000

11:00am – 3:00pm

Movement in a carnival type setting with a 68’ inflatable obstacle course and other interactive stations. The children will answer healthy eating and fitness questions for tickets to play various games and a survey will be required to get a snack ticket.

FIRM FOUNDATION CHURCH
241 JEFFERSON ST.
RAVENNA, OH 44266
(330) 297-5933

Zoo Trip was filled with adventure and family.

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:40:55 +0000

Community Picnic was joined by diverse crowd

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:18:12 +0000

We would like to thank everyone who came out yesterday to Salaam Clevelands Potluck Picnic! And a big thank you to all our volunteers! We hope you all enjoyed it! More photos coming soon!

Driving Program starts June 20, 2017

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 15:13:36 +0000

In this week we will begin the Driving program at Salaam Cleveland. We have begun with 6 people for now.

Eid Carnivale had Joy and Celebration

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:23:51 +0000

It was a great day at the ICC Eid Carnival with our refugee families! Thank you to everyone who contributed to giving these families a great holiday. Just another step in making Cleveland feel more like home. And thank you to ICC and the GIVE organization for your partnership of supporting this community.

Saturday Classes for Children starting Again

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:13:02 +0000

Saturday Classes for Children start again next month, these classes been a source of joy for us all.

Common Ground by Cleveland Foundation is a beautiful conversation starter

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:04:52 +0000

Today, the Cleveland foundation along with other organizations like Global Cleveland hosted a beautiful conversation to create a culture of deeper connectivity, inclusiveness and communication. This event was highlighted by different aspects of the Cleveland community coming together to talk about how Cleveland can become a more loving and caring place for immigrant communities. One lady highlighted ‘the hope to do something good highlights our similarity.’ It is a blessing for us all to see these conversations started and we pray that they continue and bring deeper good. Ameen.

A Gift

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:57:21 +0000

A few weeks ago I received a call from a brother in the Cleveland area seeking to donate a few items. I returned his phone call and he introduced himself as Rashid Rashid. By a series of events he explained to me that his business had fallen through and he had a few things to be able to donate. Our garage at Salaam Cleveland was at capacity so I told my brother I will get back to him after looking for another place. After a brief conversation with Uncle Zahid, we decided that First Cleveland Mosque might be a more appropriate place to take these donations. In this meantime brother Rashid had decided to reach larger organizations like Islamic Relief and ICNA Relief. After getting out of the conversation with Uncle Zahid, I spoke with brother Rashid and asked him if he felt that he could help us donate these things to First Cleveland Mosque. I had initially heard it was just several comforters. Brother Rashid told me he would get back to me after hearing back from ICNA and ISNA Relief.

On the following Monday I got a call from Brother Rashid that the oppurtunities with both the organizations had fallen through and he would have to donate locally. So I got in touch with Sister jean and Imam Abbas of First Cleveland and asked if they would be able to take these donations. We asked a couple of brothers to help Brother Rashid and we were on our way for delivery by Wednesday. Come Wednesday we were all at First Cleveland at our scheduled time of 3:30pm, Brother Rashid told me he had been loading the truck since 8am in the morning on the phone. I was a little taken aback not realizing the magnitude of the donations he was loading prior to this. At around 3:30pm brother Rashid brought the first Truck load and it was a full truck load. I saw Imam Abbas next me at the first sight, teary, repeating “God is Great, God is Great,God is Great!” We were all humbled by the way these donations were brought and the gift that was included in it. The donation worth was upwards of $60, 000. We moved these donations into the Mosque as rain poured.

It is said in the Qur’an that if you plant one sapling, it will be multiplied 70 folds for you. This gift was an example of that. We wanted to write this blog post to signify this and also thank brother Rashid Rashid and Rushdi Rashid for the humility and kindness with which they brought these donations. May these blessings continue to expand and goodness continue to prevail.

Deepening Bonds For a Common Human Cause

salaamcleveland@admin — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:47:10 +0000

Moved by the events and images we have seen in Rohingya, we the people of all faiths and humanitarian workers, felt a need to come together to stand for a common humanitarian cause for love and peace to come closer to the Divine. Salaam Cleveland along with Refugee Response and other community organizations aimed to form an inter-faith alliance and brotherhood/ sisterhood for communities to come together for such an important humanitarian issue, in it as a ripple, our hope being that bridges will be built, and relations will be deepened for a common humanitarian and heart-felt cause within our own City of Cleveland. In lieu, supporting a people that have seen such plight, lighting a candle when there is much dark. We hope you all will join us for this event, and we pray that more doors continue to open in the city. As one of our Inter- faith speakers wrote, “May our Thanksgiving be filled with gratitude for all our blessings — and the continuing understanding that we are all interconnected as one human family.”

With love and peace,

May we be people of Gratitude