Sadaqa Day Success/Mitzvah Day 2011

On Sunday 20th November Volunteers from Palmers Green Mosque and Shaarei-tsedek Synagogue stood side by side asking shoppers at Morrisons to donate an item of food for the homeless.
This was an interfaith initaitive that involved not just meeting and talking with people from other faiths, but doing a good action or commandment (Mitzvah) and an act of charity (Sadaqa) together. The phrase “actions speak louder than words” summed up the entire day.
Shoppers were surprised to see the Mosque and the Synagogue together, they were also surprised that we weren’t hounding them for money! Instead we asked for a donation of a tin of soup, shampoo, biscuits for those less fortunate than ourselves and who happened to live not a million miles away, but in Barnet, in our neighbourhood. The shopping bags soon filled up, some goods were deliverd to Homeless Action Barnet by the Masjid and some by the Synagogue. It was a great team effort and made for healthy relations with others in our community.
The local press were also present and gave us a good writeup.
Positive initiatives like this are rare, but we hope to continue with work of this nature in future, insh’Allah. Keep an eye out for them.
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