Our Work in Syria
More than a decade of war has shattered Syria. Millions displaced. Entire cities reduced to rubble. Families who once had homes, jobs and futures now survive on almost nothing. IAC UK works to deliver direct aid to the Syrian people who have been forgotten by the world but not by the Ummah: food, emergency relief, orphan care and Islamic education. Your donation reaches them.
When the Markets Are Empty and the Money Is Gone
He used to own a bakery. It fed his family and his whole street. The bakery was hit in 2016. He has been displaced three times since. Now he works a day here, a day there, when there is work at all. Most days, his children eat once.
Across Syria, millions of people face this reality. The war did not just destroy buildings. It destroyed livelihoods, supply chains, entire food systems. Bread that cost pennies a decade ago is now unaffordable for families who have lost everything. Syria's crisis is not a single event. It is a decade of compounding loss. Hospitals destroyed. Schools closed. Markets empty. For the millions still inside the country, every winter is a survival test. Every airstrike displaces thousands more. And the devastating earthquake of 2023 landed on top of the destruction that was already there.
These families need immediate, practical help. Food. Shelter. Medical supplies. They need it now.
Direct Aid When It Matters Most
IAC UK is working with the poorest in society, long after their faces are forgotten by the news channels. In Syria, that means two things: responding to emergencies as they happen, and delivering food to families who go hungry every day.
Your Sadaqah and Zakat fund the Emergency Relief response. When a bombing displaces a neighbourhood, we deliver. When winter temperatures threaten lives, we respond. When an earthquake hits, we do not wait for the news cycle. We act. This is frontline humanitarian work. Your donation goes directly to Syrian families in their most desperate moments.
We provide food parcels to displaced families inside Syria during Ramadan and throughout the year. Our Ramadan Relief Packs, at £59 each, contain the food items a family needs to get through the holy month. Your donation of just £4 per day provides food and cash aid to displaced families. We work directly in the communities where hunger is worst, making sure every parcel reaches the right hands.
The Prophet ﷺ said: "Charity does not decrease wealth, no one forgives another but that Allah increases his honour, and no one humbles himself for the sake of Allah but that Allah raises his status." (Sahih Muslim)
You are not sending money into the void. You are answering a call that millions of people are making right now.
Childhood Lost to War
She is seven. She has not seen her father since the bombing that destroyed their home. She does not talk about it. She does not talk much at all anymore.
Syria's war has created a generation of orphans. Children who watched their fathers die. Children separated from their families during displacement. Children growing up without the care, safety and education every child deserves. Many of these orphans live with surviving relatives who can barely feed themselves. Others rely entirely on charity. Without support, they face hunger, isolation, exploitation and a future with no foundation beneath it.
International Aid Charity is working with hundreds of orphans, helping to provide food, shelter, social clubs, outings and Islamic & Qur'an studies. This is what makes IAC's orphan care different. We do not just feed children and leave. We build a world around them. Social clubs where they meet other children. Outings where they can be kids. Islamic education and Qur'an studies that give them spiritual grounding and belonging. Your Sadaqah and Zakat fund all of it.
The Prophet ﷺ said: "I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like this", putting his index and middle finger together. (Sahih al-Bukhari)
The reward is immense. And so is the need.
When the Scholars Are Scattered, the Knowledge Fades
He spent thirty years teaching in Damascus. His students numbered in the thousands. When the war came, he fled with nothing. No library, no institution, no income. Now he lives in a small flat in a foreign city, and the knowledge he carries has nowhere to go.
Syria's war did not just destroy buildings and displace families. It scattered a generation of Islamic scholars across the globe. Men and women who gave their lives to Qur'an and Islamic sciences now struggle to survive, let alone teach. There is, as IAC puts it, a great spiritual poverty around the world that also needs feeding. The souls are crying out for peace, contentment and a way to reach their Lord. And the people who can guide them are sitting in exile, waiting.
International Aid Charity are running schools and courses, teaching Qur'an and Islamic sciences by highly qualified Syrian scholars, most of whom are refugees displaced around the world. Your Sadaqah funds these scholars to teach. It pays for schools. It funds courses. It supports the men and women who carry centuries of Islamic learning and gives them a platform to pass it on.
The Prophet ﷺ said: "The best of you are those that learn the Qur'an and teach it." (Sahih al-Bukhari)
When you fund a scholar, you fund everyone they teach. And everyone those students go on to teach after them. This is Sadaqah Jariyah — ongoing charity — in its purest form.
Fulfil Your Obligations. Reach Syria.
Your Zakat. Your Fitrana. Your Fidyah. Your Kaffarah. These obligations are lifelines for the people of Syria. When you fulfil them through IAC UK, every penny reaches displaced Syrian families: the orphans, the widows, the hungry, the forgotten. The people your obligations were made for.
Zakat: Your compulsory annual payment goes directly to those who are eligible — the poorest and most exposed people in Syria.
Fitrana / Zakat ul Fitr (£4): Given before Eid prayer so that those in need can also celebrate. Your £4 feeds a displaced Syrian family.
Fidyah (£4/day): If you have missed fasts due to ill health or pregnancy and cannot make them up, your Fidyah provides food to the poor. At £4 per day, that is £120 for 30 days.
Kaffarah: If fasts were broken without legitimate reason, Kaffarah is equivalent to feeding for 60 days — £240 through IAC UK.
"And be steadfast in prayer and give Zakat. Whatever good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with Allah. Certainly, Allah is watchful of all you do." — Qur'an (Al Baqarah: 110)
Your obligations fulfilled. Syrian families fed.
Food & Water
Urgent food parcels, Ramadan Relief Packs (£59), shelter, medical supplies and winter relief for displaced families
Orphan Care
Food, shelter, social clubs, outings and Islamic education for hundreds of orphaned Syrian children
Zakat & Obligations
Zakat (tiers from £50), Fitrana (£4), Fidyah (£120/30 days), Kaffarah (£240/60 days)
Sadaqah & Zakat Eligible
All donations eligible as Sadaqah and Zakat. Lillah, Interest/Riba and General also accepted.
Donation types accepted: Sadaqah, Zakat, Lillah, Interest/Riba, General