COVID-19: How cash transfers can save lives and livelihoods
The Covid-19 pandemic will see more than a quarter of a billion people suffering acute hunger by the end of the year 2020, according to…
Category: Humanitarian Finance
The Issue of Anonymity in Digital Zakat
Identity brings in many benefits in the context of zakat distribution (as underlined in my earlier blog). Lack of identity or anonymity on the part…
The Issue of Identity in Digital Distribution of Zakat
My last blog ended on a note that digitizing zakat payments to beneficiaries would be more efficient, as compared to payments involving hard cash or…
Story of Maimouna from Central Africa
Maimouna is emotional in one of the refugee camps Garisingo in east Cameroon when she recalls the horrific journey she took from Central African Republic…
Islamic Social Finance at World Humanitarian Summit
It was an eagerly awaited event. A day before the event, the daily Star of Malaysia published an interview titled “Taking Islamic Social Finance to…
Should Zakat Be Used for Humanitarian Finance?
On March 26 a very interesting document “An Act of Faith: Humanitarian Financing and Zakatâ€Â prepared by Chloe Stirk was launched at an event hosted by…