This 13-minute movie features two main characters who go through two separate, but similar, stories. While 11-year-old Aarib detests the fact that his younger brother Aadil is constantly asking him for help, 11-year-old Zeynep has the same issue with her sister Hana Rana. Meanwhile, we get glimpses of what to expect at the upcoming bake sale on Saturday. Watch the video to find out how Aarib and Zeynep learn to help others out...if they ever do.
Come to our bake sale on Saturday, June 2nd. We will have fun games and delicious food from 5 to 9pm, insha Allah. Have dinner with us!
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Video - Ad for Rose Pens and Stems!
Awesome duct-tape roses and long-stemmed duct-tape roses! Help support the Well Project!
Watch the video to learn more.
Watch the video to learn more.
Friday, May 4, 2012
NEW Come to Our Bake Sale Video - Spending in the Way of Allah
This humorous ten minute video follows the story of a young girl, Reahaam, who has just earned $100 as a prize for winning a school competition. When she meets her friend, she eagerly relates her experience at the awards ceremony where the governor gave her a prize. Happy for Reahaam, yet concerned for how she might misuse her money, her friends try to encourage her to donate some of her money. Reahaam is first reluctant to part with her money, but after hearing stories of her friends' siblings and cousins who sacrificed their money in hopes of gaining rewards from Allah, she begins to have second thoughts. Throughout the video, Reahaam learns of hadiths and ayahs from the Qur'an about generous and greedy people. Watch this video to find out what happens.
Also learn about our upcoming bake sale. Come on Tuesday to help us build wells for thirsty people in Africa!
SPECIAL at the end of the video: BLOOPERS
This video also shows some of the funny bloopers/mess-up scenes we had as we made the movie.
Enjoy!
Also learn about our upcoming bake sale. Come on Tuesday to help us build wells for thirsty people in Africa!
SPECIAL at the end of the video: BLOOPERS
This video also shows some of the funny bloopers/mess-up scenes we had as we made the movie.
Enjoy!
Monday, April 30, 2012
Winning Video - Come to Our Bake Sale
Based on results from our recent voting poll, the video 'Come to Our Bake Sale' is crowned the winner.
If you haven't already watched this video, check it out here:
http://usayouthwellproject.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-video-come-to-our-bake-sale-movie.html
If you haven't voted in this poll, keep checking our site so that you can vote for our next voting poll!
If you haven't already watched this video, check it out here:
http://usayouthwellproject.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-video-come-to-our-bake-sale-movie.html
If you haven't voted in this poll, keep checking our site so that you can vote for our next voting poll!
Fiction Story of a Village Receiving Aid from a Well
This is a story I wrote towards the beginning of our project. It is fiction, but thousands of Africans are experiencing these similar situations as the Zakat Foundation of America builds more wells throughout the continent.
Friendship Well
Quiet moans drifted into my ear from the corner of the room,
waking me out of my restless slumber. I carefully climbed out of my
scratchy cot and tip-toed passed my 9-year-old brother Hamza and my 7-year-old
brother Khalid. They looked cute curled up on their cots, their chests
going up and down with each breath.
Away from my cot and my brothers’
cots, I knelt down beside my baby sister Amina’s rocker and gently rocked it
back and forth. She stopped moaning and looked up at me with large,
longing eyes. I smiled down at her and sadly stroked her thin wisps of
brown hair.
A doctor had visited our village last week and had told us that Amina had the first signs of a life-threatening disease. He informed us that the water we drank was definitely the cause and we should stop drinking that water immediately. When he said this, I remembered my daily trips to the stream a half mile away from our house. Every morning, I’d walk along the dusty path to the stream with my best friend Abdullah and a few other village boys. I remembered looking down into the murky brown stream waters and wishing we had cleaner water. I didn’t want to go home and give my siblings this dirty water to drink. I knew it would be bad for their health. But we didn’t have any other water. I knew that many village children had died because of drinking this water, but there was no other water to drink.
Thinking of all this, I bent down and kissed Amina’s forehead. I made du’a to Allah to save my little sister. I thought of all the people around the world who had so much water that they took for granted. My friend Abdullah told me so many stories his grandfather told him about people around the world who get endless supplies of fresh, clean water.
As I thought about this, I felt upset with those people who took all they had for granted. I wondered if they ever thought about us. I thought, ‘Do people know that we don’t have clean water to drink here in Somalia?’ Do they know that children and babies are dying every day because they don’t have clean water to drink? Do they even care to know?’
More coming soon...
A doctor had visited our village last week and had told us that Amina had the first signs of a life-threatening disease. He informed us that the water we drank was definitely the cause and we should stop drinking that water immediately. When he said this, I remembered my daily trips to the stream a half mile away from our house. Every morning, I’d walk along the dusty path to the stream with my best friend Abdullah and a few other village boys. I remembered looking down into the murky brown stream waters and wishing we had cleaner water. I didn’t want to go home and give my siblings this dirty water to drink. I knew it would be bad for their health. But we didn’t have any other water. I knew that many village children had died because of drinking this water, but there was no other water to drink.
Thinking of all this, I bent down and kissed Amina’s forehead. I made du’a to Allah to save my little sister. I thought of all the people around the world who had so much water that they took for granted. My friend Abdullah told me so many stories his grandfather told him about people around the world who get endless supplies of fresh, clean water.
As I thought about this, I felt upset with those people who took all they had for granted. I wondered if they ever thought about us. I thought, ‘Do people know that we don’t have clean water to drink here in Somalia?’ Do they know that children and babies are dying every day because they don’t have clean water to drink? Do they even care to know?’
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Video About Water: Water Changes Everything
Check out this video we found on the Internet about the importance of water.
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