{"id":771275,"date":"2022-08-08T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=26518"},"modified":"2022-08-08T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:31:46","slug":"icna-relief-holds-colorful-event-gives-away-free-backpacks-supplies-among-needy-families-on-the-eve-of-new-academic-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/08\/icna-relief-holds-colorful-event-gives-away-free-backpacks-supplies-among-needy-families-on-the-eve-of-new-academic-session\/","title":{"rendered":"ICNA-Relief holds colorful event, gives away free backpacks, supplies among needy families on the eve of new academic session."},"content":{"rendered":"

New York: What if the low-income families and <\/strong>disadvantaged<\/strong> communities<\/strong> living in United States are worried about school supplies for their children on the eve of new academic session in September, ICNA-Relief \u2013 the largest Muslim charity organization is there to heal their financial woes to greater extent by providing them free backpacks with supplies.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

For the past ten years, the ICNA-Relief under this \u201cBack2School\u201d program has distributed around 50,000 school bags with supplies to low-income families across the United States.<\/p>\n

The first program of this series was held in New York recently. For this mega event, ICNA-Relief in collaboration with the Nassau County Asian American Affairs organized a very wonderful and memorable program for the needy families at Cradle of Aviation Museum.<\/p>\n

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Despite the intense heat, hundreds of families participated in this program, not only school bags were distributed, but also a colorful show was staged, where in great things of interest to children such as video games and much more were presented.<\/p>\n

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Ice cream distributed free of cost to the children and their parents who enjoyed the cold ice cream, amid scorching heat.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, hot popcorn and cotton candy also attracted the attention of children in hot weather.<\/p>\n

A medical camp was set up under the supervision of Dr. Mushahid Farooqui, where the visitors got their blood pressure, sugar etc. tested, free of cost.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, medical aid was also given to the person who fainted due to extreme heat.<\/p>\n

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The special feature of this program was that it was made free for children and parents by the Nassau County Museum of Aviation.<\/p>\n

Taking advantage of this opportunity, children and adults not only got to know about the history of aviation, but also got a close look at the fighter and passenger planes and also enjoyed the cockpit.<\/p>\n

On this occasion, ICNA-Relief officials thanked the Nassau County Asian Affairs Committee and said that the county administration has given full support.<\/p>\n

Akram Chaudhry, Senior Adviser to Executive Bruce A Blackman of Nassau County, highly appreciated ICNA-Relief\u2019s services.<\/p>\n

Urooj Islam of Asian American Affairs said that in this era of inflation, even a little help goes a long way.<\/p>\n

Talking to WOSA TV, Arshad Jamal, Director of North East, Atifur Rehman, in charge of Back2School New York, Ishaq Alpar, in charge of ICNA-Relief New York, expressed their views and said that ICNA-Relief participates in the happiness of their American every year.<\/p>\n

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New York: What if the low-income families and disadvantaged communities living in United States are worried about school supplies for their children on the eve of new academic session in September, ICNA-Relief \u2013 the largest Muslim charity organization is there to heal their financial woes to greater extent by providing them free backpacks with supplies.\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2633,4,1,1227,340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771350,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771275\/revisions\/771350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}