ZAKAT CATALOGUE
LAST UPDATED: October 2026
Give your Zakat where most needed
Donate your Zakat today. View our catalogue for Zakat-eligible projects, and fulfil your obligation knowing your Zakat is in trusted hands.
We know your Zakat is an Amanah, and we take that trust very seriously. At Islamic Relief Canada, we want to ensure giving your Zakat is a transparent and trusted experience for you.
This is why we’ve highlighted some of our Zakat-funded work below to help you understand the real impact of your Zakat with Islamic Relief. Please note, however, that all donations collected through this catalogue will be pooled together to fund all our Zakat projects at large. This ensures that all Zakat funds can be distributed in the most efficient and effective manner.
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Improving access to healthcare services
Marginalized communities in Afghanistan lack access to quality and tailored healthcare services, leading to poor health outcomes for women, expecting mothers, and young children particularly.
Your Zakat can provide psychosocial care, antenatal and postnatal care, nutrition services, and safe shelter to women and children in Bamiyan and Kandahar provinces. Every individual deserves access to dignified shelter and quality healthcare.
- $90can host 5 community awareness sessions on health and nutrition
- $500can host 14 nutrition classes for new and expecting mothers
- $4,000can build one new home for a displaced, vulnerable family
Livelihood and protection support for women
In Bangladesh, women face significant barriers to economic independence. Your Zakat can change that.
Through cash grants, a community-based food bank, entrepreneurship development training, skills training, and more, Bangladeshi women can generate income and support their families. They will receive the tools and resources to build sustainable livelihoods.
- $90can deliver 21 bags of vegetable and fruit seedlings to farmers
- $150can provide entrepreneurship training and income generation skills training to 4 women
- $300can provide a business cash grant to one woman
- $950can ensure 4 women get access to quality and tailored healthcare
Fueling economic futures for youth
Jordan hosts 1.4 million Syrian refugees, many of whom struggle to make ends meet. The country’s resources have been stretched thin in recent years, resulting in heightened poverty for Jordanians and Syrians alike.
This project focuses on youth of all ages in the regions of North Irbid, Karak, and Zarqa through the rehabilitation of schools, construction of playgrounds, and entrepreneurship skills training. Your Zakat will strengthen resilience among vulnerable Syrian refugees and Jordanians to help tackle the root causes of poverty in the region.
- $250can provide essential education supplies to 10 refugee students
- $300can cover the costs of a 6-week English language and job support training for one vulnerable youth
- $500can enroll one student in a 4-week specialized robotics program
- $1,200can provide a business cash grant to one youth
Emergency support in Gaza
Islamic Relief is on the ground in Gaza, delivering daily Zakat-eligible ready-to-eat meals, hygiene kits, food packs, bedding, and psychosocial support for children. But the enormity of the crisis means that much more is needed.
Your Zakat can help deliver life-saving relief and essentials to the people of Gaza. We are focused first on areas that are accessible and where our teams can obtain and deliver aid, working with local partners to reach as many people as possible.
*Please note that our immediate activities can be subject to change due to the nature of the situation. In the case of any changes to our planned activities, your donation will then fund different Zakat-eligible activities to continue bringing relief to the people of Gaza.
- $120can deliver hot meals to 12 displaced people in Gaza
- $220can provide maternal health services for a pregnant woman
- $575can provide 2 trucks of water to reach 700 families
Humanitarian response for ongoing crisis
Sudan continues to face a dire humanitarian situation amidst ongoing human rights violations, cholera outbreaks, forced migrations, worsening famine, and access constraints.
Islamic Relief is on the ground in Sudan in Al Jazirah, Sennar, Red Sea, Blue Nile, Gedaref, Khartoum, Central Darfur, and North and West Kordofan states, standing alongside communities in some of the hardest-hit regions.
Your Zakat can help deliver life-saving relief and essentials to the people of Sudan.
- $100can deliver toys, books, drawing supplies, and sports equipment to 5 children
- $200can provide hygiene essentials and dignity kits to 4 women or girls
- $450can provide a cash grant to help families purchase essentials
- $1,300can cover vocational training and skills development for one youth
Your Zakat can sponsor an orphan
Your sponsorship of $90/monthly ($1,080/year) allows for the life of an orphan to be continuously transformed long term, helping them build a better life for themselves and their families.
Through a one-to-one model, your sponsorship will go to an orphan in most need from one of 25 countries, ensuring they have a safe home, food to eat, and access to health care and education.
What does Zakat in trusted hands mean?
Did you know? We follow a scholar-verified Zakat Policy to ensure our Zakat activities have maximum impact and are executed in full accordance with the teachings of Islam.
What’s a scholar-verified policy? It’s our policy to ensure Islamic principles are consistently adhered to every step of the way, from project design and community fundraising discussions to project implementation. Ultimately, it enables us to fulfil our obligation and the trust we owe to you as a donor in the best way possible.
At Islamic Relief, your Zakat is not just a simple transaction but rather a means to uplift and transform. We identify those well below Nisab, working with the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable to help bring immediate relief, alleviate poverty and protect the rights of those in need.
You can trust that each of the listed projects in this catalogue has a Zakat-eligible component, funding some of our most crucial work with people and communities living in disaster, poverty and conflict zones.
