Dubai, UAE: Dar Al Der Society, Ajman branch, dedicated to philanthropic works, managed to collect Dh17,167,574 in contribution to charity projects last year.
These are compared to Dh16,276,858 in 2015, according to Abdullah Ali bin Zayed Al Falasi, Executive Director of Dar Al Ber. “This is really a quantum leap in the mount of donations collected, and hopefully this will be the case this year.”
Official records show that Dar Al Ber Society, Ajman branch, sponsored 271 new orphans, including seven in the UAE and 246 abroad last year with the help of generous sponsors.
“The contributions collected last year were distributed as follows: Dh8,301,142 for building mosques, Dh2,134,371 for digging water wells, Dh746,762 for endowments, Dh320,3030 for poor productive families, Dh2,032,847 for sponsoring orphans, Dh2,193,140 for Cash alms or Zakat.”
The Ajman branch managed to collect Dh145,236 for Iftar project last Ramadan, as well as Dh53,370 for Eid clothes program, Dh275,300 for Eid Adahi, and Dh230,676 for printing Quran copies, Al Falasi explained.
“The Dar Al Ber Society well-trained staff representatives also managed to collect Dh163,405 for general charities, apart from other contributions that hit Dh2,571,022 last year.”

Khalid Abdulwahhab Al Khajah, director of the Ajman branch, said they covered an array of charity projects while supporting up to 2,868 poor and low-income families last year.
“Of these 1,133 were paid house rents, while the study fees of 1,131 students were taken care of, the medicine of 239 patients were handled, the electricity bills of 44 families were paid, apart from 321 other cases in need for emergency assistance.”