Welcome to the family.

Our Ummah started in 2020 with a group of Muslims in the UK putting money together for one well. One well became over a hundred, in Zimbabwe, Pakistan, India and Uganda. Then a masjid in Uganda in 2021. Then hot meals and food parcels in Gaza when the border closed.

And then the OU Village. Our Ummah is a project of AR Projects CIC.

A compound in Uganda with a masjid, classrooms and dorms. The children live there and learn Qur'an, Islamic studies, English, maths and science. The first children moved in in December 2023.

92 hot meals a day are served there, breakfast and dinner.

Zulfiq runs it on the ground. He lives there with his family, alongside the teachers, a house mother, a caregiver and the cook. Jibreel runs Our Ummah from the UK and goes out every few months.

£37 a month, or £444 for a year, gives one child a home at the OU Village, meals every day, and teachers for madrasa and school. Zakat is welcome: every child is an orphan or from a family in need.

You can pay by card (monthly or yearly), or by bank transfer. You can move to card at any time.

• Your child's report from Zulfiq: how they are, school, and where they have reached in the Qur'an.
• A moment with your child: a short video or photo, with a line about it.
• A video from Jibreel and from Zulfiq about the OU Village: what's happened, and what's been hard.

All of it is on your own sponsor page at ourummah.uk/my, which works like an app on your phone. We'll email you when something new is there.

In Ramadan you can also give your child's Eid party and Eid gifts, £40 each, from your page.

We know we could have done better at staying connected. Instead of just trying harder, we built a system, so you always see what your sponsorship is doing.

“I and the one who looks after an orphan will be like this in Paradise.”

The Prophet ﷺ, holding two fingers together · Sahih al-Bukhari 6005