AMYA’s aim is also to give young people important life skills by engaging them in community and charitable initiatives.
Source/Credit: Examiner / Andrew Hirst
By Staff report | May 27, 2015
The Examiner Community Awards night is less than a week away and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is among the three nominations making the shortlist in the Services to the Community category.
According to The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, the winner will be announced at the John Smith’s Stadium on the awards night on Wednesday, June 3.
In its report published on May 27, The Examiner reported some of the highlights of the services performed by the association for community's benefit. The news report said:
Young people from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association are showing exceptional services to the community in Huddersfield.
This has been going on for many years but over the last 12 months the association has taken it to new heights.
AMYA’s aim is also to give young people important life skills by engaging them in community and charitable initiatives.
In partnership with other organisations its work has included planting thousands of trees, cleaning streets, collecting thousands of pounds for charity and helping the elderly and poor. It’s all part of a long-term charitable and community programme that will continue into 2015 and across the next decade.
AMYA Huddersfield has played a key in the national AMYA Mercy for Mankind charity walk, run, cycle, and hike, in which it contributed significantly towards raising £¼m nationwide to support both national and local British charities such as Macmillan Cancer Support and Save the Children UK. Its leaders are Amir Shahzab from Crosland Moor and Tariq Mahmood from Huddersfield.
During the severe UK floods in early 2014 Huddersfield AMYA members received a call about the badly flood-hit Somerset village of Burrowbridge. The area was so badly flooded that some parts could not be entered using rubber dingies.
Kamal Aftab, of Almondbury, who is the Yorkshire regional co-ordinator for AMYA, said: “Our members quickly mobilised and travelled the 450 mile round trip to Somerset. They worked side-by-side with the army, church and local residents into the night lifting sandbags and laying wood chip.”
AMYA has been collecting money for the annual Poppy Appeal for the past two past years and its volunteers have been running a programme for young members to visit elderly homes and children’s wards across Huddersfield and Halifax. AMYA jhas taken significant supplies of food to food banks that are low on provisions and ran a free taxi service for the elderly across December and the New Year so they could attend community dinners and parties. This programme has been in place for years and members who once partook as teenagers now bring their own children to volunteer.
Young AMYA members help other youngsters to find work by writing covering letters, CVs and giving them interview tips. AMYA also organises life skill sessions such as team building days, disaster response courses, non-medical and medical training, academic and sporting activities.
The organisation is 100% non-profit and all activities are self-funded by the voluntary donations of AMYA members. AMYA does not seek money or grants from the government.
Kamal added: “AMYA has offered a tremendous service to Huddersfield and the AMYA members who emerge are rounded, productive and proud British Muslims as a result of serving British society.”
The other nominees in Services to Community category are William Comerford, who helped save Deighton Working Men’s Club from going bust, and Sara Gill, who founded Stanley’s Training Project which helps people with learning disabilities.
All three nominees are worthy candidates for the recognition.
-- UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Assoc. makes Nominees' shortlist for Services to Community award
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