Shias lone and first biggest orphanage girls hostel under construction in Kashmir + Pics

Almasomeen girls orphanage hostel is under construction in kashmir which will provide free education , accommodation and other facilities to the hundreds of orphan girls and is the first ever girls hostel to be built among Shias in Kashmir. The hostel is constructed under the auspicious of Almasomeen Orphan Trust.

Almasomeen Orphan Trust is a non-governmental, non-political voluntary Shia organization established purely as a recognized charitable trust with a clear aim and declared objective to serve the orphans, widows, ill, down-trodden and other needy persons irrespective of their color, caste, religion, gender and region.

The trust came into existence in March 2005 at Abu-Turab mosque at Nabdipora Srinagar after a great deal of discussions headed by very famous religious person “Alhaj Aga Syed Mustafa Rizvi”. The Trust represents the first ever voluntary organization for orphans of this kind in Jammu and Kashmir. Initially it started at Nabdipora, Zadibal seven kilometers from Lal Chowk Srinagar to help the orphans falling from Narwara to Botakadal area of Srinagar. Although with very meager resources, within a couple of years its domain widened to whole Srinagar city.

It was 2007 when the board of trustees planned to construct an orphanage. The Trust gained great public respect and support in acknowledgment of social service. Thus the chairman along with other trustees selflessly visited the downtrodden communities especially orphans and widows to bring them under the umbrella of the trust.

At present, the trust covers whole Kashmir valley, Kargil and Leh and provides financial support to hundreds of orphan families and runs an orphanage at Sheribhat under the name Almasoomeen Boys Hostel where it hosts many orphans boys and provides accommodation, education and playing facilities.

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Source: ABNA