Interfaith Clothing and Essential Item Drive for Rohingya Refugees held at HCIC by Janan Abdein

On Saturday, January 6, 2018, Human Rights Committee of the Birmingham Islamic Society, and the Universalist Unitarian Church Justice Committee teamed up with Helping Hand Charity to hold a Clothing and Essential Item drive for the Rohingya refugees at the Hoover Crescent Islamic Center. 

In addition to volunteers from these organizations, over 25 local volunteers from both the Muslim and Christian communities worked together to sort and package enough excellent quality clothing, shoes, medical equipment and blankets to completely fill a large 27 foot U-Haul trailer. The trailer will be combined with goods from other drives around the region and will be shipped to Burma in mid-January with an expected March arrival in Burma, inshaAllah.