 So much to our busy bees for reciting to us, so it's nebha. Washa'Allah is an example of something that they have been working on for the entire year. And you see Washa'Allah, the fruits of their labors. Welcome to our mothers and fathers. For those of you who are returning families to the Rahmah Foundation programs, welcome. And to those of you who are new to our group as well, welcome. Washa'Allah. My name is Rani Ahmad. I am the director of the Rahmah Foundation and supervise the girls and youth harm of the Rahmah Foundation. For those who are not familiar with Rahmah, Rahmah was incorporated about 10 years ago now, Washa'Allah. And it was a non-profit organization that was founded by women teachers. Women who had gone, I said like myself, who had gone to study in various countries throughout the world and had returned, studied their Islamic sciences I should say, and when they returned, formed together to have a platform for women to teach other women and to teach girls. So that is the mission of the Rahmah Foundation. And through it we have been doing girls programming, like these Friday night programs, like our summer camps, and also women programming, like our classes and workshops and conferences. Alhamdulillah. I hope all of you have been touched by Rahmah Foundation in one way or another, and perhaps some of our families have been touched many times over. Alhamdulillah. We ask for your continued support. The group here, I'm just going to do a very quick introduction to the work that we do here on Friday nights in case it is new to all of you. This work was really something I had seen when I was studying in Damascus, Syria. I saw an amazing group of women teachers who really worked with other women and other girls to teach them their dean. And I found there are so many female role models who had mastered both the dean sciences but were fully in the dunya in terms of being able to have careers and jobs and being amazing mothers and wives and really doing an amazing balance of what a Muslim woman ought to be. So when you can balance the dean and dunya fully, excuse me, improperly. And that is what inspires the work that we do here, that our girls are embedded in the dean sciences and our really identity is what we're working on here. The Muslim identity has a Muslim girl, but they feel very much connected to the dean, connected to the masjid, connected to each other in sisterhood. And so our main goal is sisterhood and our second main goal is growing the love of the Prophet, so the love of the Prophet, and the love of the Prophet, and the hearts of these young girls. As you know, we start from age four, our frogs and bunnies, and we're going to be joining us next. And we go, yes, frogs and bunnies. And then we have the groups divided by age going forward, so after that from the rainbows, then the busy bees, then the rose buds, and then finally our high schoolers who are the birds of paradise. And so these groups span the entire age range, up until a girl from which she's a toddler, all the way until she enters college. Alhamdulillah becomes a woman that joins us in our women's programming. So Alhamdulillah, we're very honored to showcase to you tonight what the girls have been working on consistently every Friday night for the last year now. And they're very excited to show you as well, so we ask for your participation and that we keep our voices down, right girls? You know, as much as you're very excited, we're going to listen to each and every group that comes up here to present. We ask the parents to please stay for the duration of the program and not have your kid finish and then take them off because that disrupts the flow. We have a couple important things after each group will be presenting. We will be breaking from relative within about a half hour or so and returning to do the remainder of our program. And at the conclusion of the program we do a group picture so we'd really like your daughters to be part of that group picture for the year of 2018. They will receive their gifts and then everybody is invited to have partake in the potluck dinner in Shalva. So we hope you'll stay here for the entire duration. And again, we're honored to have the parents here. And a quick introduction to our folks at Bunny's who are ready to join us. Insha'Allah. They are the four and five girls and they are going to be presenting some Quran and Mashi'i today. They're so cute, insha'Allah. And as the theme says, frogs and bunnies, these are two characters, froggy and bunny. And they learn through all kinds of character development with the proper traits of almost him or almost him that should be through these public characters. And they focus on Quran. They focus on learning and building their sisterhood together. And they also focus on moral development as is age appropriate for this toddler level. So something I'll share throughout the night is how my teachers that come up with this model is age appropriate and fanatic. Meaning that these very, very cute mushrooms and frogs and bunnies it's based on the toddler age. What a toddler at that stage can actually understand about the Dean and understand about the masjid, not overwhelming them with anything that is above their age range. So we're going to show face a little bit tonight. You guys ready? Yes? Insha'Allah. So please give them your undivided attention. The rainbow group has been focusing on the 99 names of Allah. They've been focusing on songs related to Wudu and Salwa. They've also been focused on thankfulness to Allah and she had to show thankfulness to their parents. They've also been focusing on the qualities and characteristics of a rainbow. So those qualities of Wudu have a strong bond of sisterhood and being good friends towards one another, being neat and clean. One of the aspects of a rainbow is that there's many different colors to a rainbow but when they all come together they make something that's very beautiful. So we've been focusing with the girls on how they're all different ages but when they come together there's beauty. They all come from different parts of the world but together they make something beautiful. So here are the rainbows. Sister. Everybody call and cheer, ready? We're in aspects of developing a program that is for girls specifically and really is age appropriate for each and every stage and age that they're in. So it requires that the work is for really takes into account emotional abilities with intellectual abilities, social abilities and also religious understanding of each and every age group. We believe here that if we overwhelm our girls, can we get some quiet please? Girls, quiet please. Thank you. That if we overwhelm our girls with too much information about the Sam at the wrong ages, at the wrong time, we can actually meet up and then go to them. So if we start with our frogs and bunnies, we don't talk about, for example, things that are too metaphorical for them to understand. But as we go forward into the age groups, they have more and more understanding and we fill in the gaps of that Islamic understanding. Washa'Allah. So here we have our busybees and our busybees, just like the name entails, are very, very busy. Washa'Allah. They're very excited to share with you there in a sheet tonight but also to keep in mind that they're just like little bees in a hive who have several components that they work on all through the year. And in those components, they work together really wonderfully in order to produce such an outcome, which is very, which is very useful honey. That is a shifa and a healing to people. So I hope that you'll see that through their group effort and work tonight and we're really excited to have you with us, busybees. This is the sixth grade rose buds group and they'll be doing some poems and some artistic presentations of some paintings that they did recently. Sixth grade rose buds, are you ready? Grows have been talking a lot about diversity and what makes each of them unique and how they can come together and work as a team. Along this theme, they come up with some poetry and some canvas paintings that they want to share with you. Diversity, sisterhood and modesty. Our class chose this theme because we think these themes are important, we value these themes and we love how they're personal. Our Leila and Selma and Safa. Leila's poem is about wearing hijab while Safa's poem is about kindness. In our spirit, it's huge and bright and full of light, like a star that glows in the darkest night. This star is a mix of love, friendship and right. It holds fun, the biggest star in the galaxy. When we do something kind, the star grows bigger and more bright. We come to love the star of burning light, which is that we're embarrassed to wear hijab. We want to encourage females to express hijab and admit it, wearing hijab in public can be and is difficult. But we shouldn't be embarrassed, we should be proud. We are Muslims. More than one steer, more than one click. All because we choose to cover our hair. We were nervous at first. The stairs, the glares, they made it worse. But we held our hands high for a long time in the sky. Islam is a beautiful way of experiencing this criticism. And now we feel unique. We ignore the stairs, we brush off the glares. We follow Islam and our Prophet Ali said, Islam or they go. My name is Sarah and today for our painting selection of our presentation we have Sabrina. Then we have our group painting with Layla. Lena, Marjad and Sarah. These paintings show how our painters feel about the theme of Sisterhood. My name is Sabrina and my painting has a beautiful bonus to show up and show a lot of things. And the background is a bit messed up and blurry. To show how the world around you may not be the best, but you have to learn how to deal with it. And also her mom gives a show that she knows that if not everything is perfect, you have to try to brush it off and just see the bright things in life. And bullies don't matter and you should just live your life in happiness. The background is all messed up and colorful to show how each person may be different in their own style. My piece of art represents that not everyone is perfect and everyone makes mistakes and that's why there's this patch here that eventually when you make those mistakes they'll patch up and eventually go away. The painting represents how everyone has flaws and it's okay to have flaws. In fact you should be proud of your flaws. Flaws are something that makes you unique. Everyone makes things that might be boring. Be unique and embrace your flaws because flaws make up you and you are amazing. The topic of sisterhood is really what you agree. Our rose buds hope. We love our differences. We work together to create this performance. We hope you enjoy it. Thank you. The next group will be the rose buds 7th grade. So the 7th grade rose buds are the poem that they wrote together and they have some poster presentations that go along with the poem. Come to the stage. So this year the 7th graders have been working on the themes of gratitude, showing proper interactions with their parents, wearing hijab and friendship. We've been loyal girls, independent, sincere, and luminous girls. Safety is felt when we are united. The bonds of trust will forever be united. Encouraging each other is a must in this time. Relying on the support of friends of mine, hijab and nobles who we are. Our hearts of mine will carry us on. Our goal in life is to succeed. Destined for greatness we are indeed. I really hope... Thank you girls. Thank you. We have one more presentation from our rose buds 7th grade. So throughout this year we began to raise money for Sadakoa. Money for Sadakoa. And we decided to give this money towards Nissa Foundation. And Nissa Foundation is basically a foundation for an organization for families and women that have been drawn to domestic violence. And we decided to give this towards the organization because us girls, we need to show sympathy to other girls too to act for kindness. And we would like to give this money towards sister Saha if she's here. And we would like to give her her blessing and give her drop like Odaqa and... Thank you so much. Thank you so much. 7th grade rose buds. Masha'Allah. And your donation will be given to the Nissa Foundation in Saha'Allah. Sister Saha is also one of the therapists at the Funil Center. And we have a partnership with the Nissa to offer therapy and care for all of the clients in Nissa. So we will make sure that she receives that and that all your generous donations in the entire class gets to the foundation in Saha'Allah. With that I really hope you have seen a little bit about the strength of sisterhood that has happened here and tell us not just words but many of your experiences as parents you tell me and tell sister Amina our beloved coordinator who you cannot do anything without Masha'Allah that you get to Saha'Allah. She likes to sit in the background and she really has the heart of everything. Masha'Allah. I wanted to say that that we really feel really less to know from the parents that they, their daughters every Friday kind of say we want to go, we want to go, we want to come and I think that's a symbol of really wanting something very special that's happening here a weekend and we thought about forming a sisterhood so many of the girls and groups have touched on it and we are not yet quite done with our program I realized that melody was coming in soon but I did want to share with you a couple of things that this idea of growing bonds of love, bonds of sisterhood amongst them is something that we know in development of youth is incredibly important especially for girls and especially for their self-confidence as I've already told her whether or not they are visible as Muslims the Dean comes from the inside and pours itself out so what's important here is that they support each other from all their diverse backgrounds different walks of life and all spectrum of the sound that they are currently on and their families are on masha'Allah and with that I think it's incredibly important to fall back on a peer group that is Muslim so that when they are surrounded by folks who are not Muslim and many friends who are not that they always have this Muslim group that they fall back on that is always going to be like their rock that is always there and supported for them and from there there's girls that become their friends and are stay their friends so when we start from each four all the way through high school and into college and from the girls who have actually graduated from our programs come back and taught in our programs and are currently in college marrying them beyond they will tell you that some of their very best friends are found here in this program so we pray insha'Allah that's something that the bump that's left at the end we ask for your continued support that you continue to bring the girls in and now that you're involved and Rahmah I know that sister Amina has our box here of donations that we're going to pass around we usually do this at the end of the year to help cover any expenses and costs especially for the programming that we put in the gifts that we bring and so on this is a very low cost program so that it's open doors for everybody anybody who would like to come in but with that there are expenses so we ask for your continued donations insha'Allah and we still have Rosebud's eighth grade group and our high school group to still present and also our concluding presentation special presentation as well that's going to happen at the very end but I think this is a good time to go ahead and have everybody prepare for their love and prayers because it should be in in about a few minutes so if you don't have wudu feel free to go ahead and get that wudu taken care of and once especially right after Melida we ask you to come immediately back in because we have the remainder of our program please don't go anywhere thank you so much but I'll these girls just celebrated with the graduation party next year they'll actually be high schoolers and they'll be in the birthday paradise group so they had a lovely party down the road a couple weeks ago throughout this year they spent time focusing on Islamophobia male-female interactions and they spent an extra amount of time focusing on peers and determining what makes a good friend what is a bad friend and how do you separate yourself from someone who you deem no longer to be someone who is supporting you in the right direction so here are the eighth grade Rosebuds Baller Rosebuds are coming up to the stage and you notice we had sixth grade seventh grade and eighth grade rosebuds so the year's cost used to group them in one group and now they're in three different groups so that it's even more specific and age-appropriate so these are our eighth graders inshallah and just to let you know while we're having the presentation I'm gonna start to send around the donation box so when it comes your way please be generous too that after the foundation and all the girls program thank you our eight girls are excited to hear what you have for us later tonight and I'll be representing the eighth grade rosebuds today we'll be showing we'll be sharing our poems and I am a superhero but not a superhero at the same time I've lived double lives so I guess that explains it because I'm a Muslim girl going to a Catholic school a Muslim girl going to a Catholic school coming from Southern California a Muslim girl coming from a Catholic school coming in eighth grade the last year kids in my class are so rowdy like they talk all the time like they cannot basically stop talking I'm getting closer to Allah I'm getting closer to Allah I'm getting closer to Allah Alhamdulillah and I start to read more on a bit more even if the on was a bit hard to understand and hard to read I still pushed through and now I read a little bit everyday detector not only my creator he has 99 names people in some way if it weren't for Allah I wouldn't be standing here at least I learned most of these great things come from this halal when I first came here none of my intentions were great I must admit I was just ready to have fun talk with some girls who weren't really listening and possibly pick up stuff I didn't make some time here all that changed I was excited to come talk for the time for talk time for class for the time when everyone's distracted I can slack off I was excited about learning important life lessons and building an unbreakable trust fund I actually picked up on stuff and I still have fun which is kind of surprising I feel like I can trust my parents and teachers and no one complained when I went to if I had a bad day a week I learned how to deal with this homophobia and boys and prayer and boys mostly boys so many great things I've met so many great people this year was great and I hope next year will be great too my hijab my hijab is beautiful my hijab is great but when people ask it makes wearing it a difficult task I always ask Allah to not let people think I'm hiding behind some kind of mask there's only so many questions and concerns all I can do is ask Allah in return what should I listen what should I forget it's all to do with my intentions and mindset this is my hijab no matter what people have to say I'm ready I'm here to wear my hijab and read it completely capable confident and free program since I was 8 years old and this has been one of my most beneficial years the program has taught me what it needs to be a Muslim woman and has given me a place where I can meet new people and learn new things I connected with people who are going to encourage me to keep up rather than straight away from it this is where I learned surahs and how to plan I became more comfortable in the hijab and realized when it meant to wear coming here every Friday and over the summers I was always reminded of my faith in everyday life it can be easy to straight away from it when I was younger this was something my career forced me to do but over the years I look forward to coming here and meeting with my sisters to help me become a Muslim sorry hold on one second okay these girls there's a lot of mumbling talking and speaking really hard to hear the beautiful beautiful poems and the words that the girls were saying so please everyone absolutely quiet thank you Assalamu alaikum my name is Hania and I'll be performing a speech Halqa as a word was very near to me when my mom approached me a couple of years ago at first I thought that it would just be a place where we learn Islamic history and study I absolutely hated the idea of going to yet another school like place so my Halqa classes started and I would come down to the MTC and spend some time going through the sessions after just a few days at Halqa I realized that it was not at all what I perceived studying would be it was actually something I enjoyed and would look forward to every Friday I love many things about Halqa about the Halqa time we spend as a group it is not just a group but a strong Islamic friendship circle I feel like my teachers in Halqa are people who I can trust and share my problems with they teach me about the importance of Islam and because of them I now try to form all my prayers there are things that I learn here which I would totally be unaware of otherwise for instance how to deal with Islamophobia or culture and family values even after talking about such serious matters we always find time to joke around and just have fun I hope to continue being part of such a great group ENO creating a home I am something useful just to presume that everyone gives ups in life it is evident that I am a pedal and green lifeless pedal no longer can be said that we will not be unique in the future society will not change this I do not succeed that only some will succeed in life experts tell me everyone is not special but this will not be true in my era everyone on earth has a purpose once upon a time I tell you honesty is more important than perfection I have my priorities straight the world will know that they will not change my mind so in 30 years I will tell my children without a heart we are in something we are nothing it is a lie and makeup cannot cave in our emotion I realize that may be a shock but I am not worthless and I refuse to believe that I am nothing and I thank all my teachers and sisters who sat here and all along thank you even the best people have something to improve on when I first came to this holoca I knew as an Islam as a religion that must be followed a rule even I have been in this holoca for 2 years now and I learned things here that I could never learn in a classroom I learned that Islam is a lifestyle I learned to love and accept a huge part of who I am I now walk proudly through my school hallway representing the best images of Islam that I can because making du'a is not something I say before I eat or when I wake up it is not something I recite without knowing the meaning to making du'a is asking for help in times of need and being grateful for what Allah has given me making du'a is something that comes from the heart because knowledge is that is that which benefits not that which is memorized I made friends here with some friends that will help keep me on the straight path my faith has become stronger and I'm very proud of who I am I mean I've been in the Rahmah Foundation for as long as I can remember so as a Muslim woman I wanted to represent my religion in the proper way I didn't want to act in a way that would make people doubt us or just in a way that isn't appropriate so ever since I've been going to Rahmah I have learned many things about how to treat others and how to overcome islamophobia and all these other challenges I've made many good friends over the years who helped me remember what is permissible and what is not I've really enjoyed my time here at Rahmah with my friends and teachers and hope to see them again next year Assalamu alaikum my name is Samaya and well I'm just normally saying things on the top of my head because I didn't have enough time to like write down what I was going to say so I've only been with the 8th grade Roseblood for like two months I know it's a short time but I've grown very attached to them and I think of them as my sisters and I'd just like to thank my two very special people my teachers sister Akra and sister Danielle for making this very interesting and fun experience and yeah I'll give them a round of applause Parents in a room I hope you're seeing kind of as we go from stage to stage in group to group how the girls mature and how their thinking processes and I just want to reiterate that we as the the organizers nor the teachers have any idea what they're going to say when they get on the stage in case you think that we pre-screen what they say we actually do not a lot of fun so I'm always as surprised as you are sitting here every year at the end of the year to see what comes out of their mouths inshallah but it's always phenomenal and amazing and really speaks to the goals that we have set here at the Rahman Foundation of having strong bonds of sisterhood and growing that love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and also I want to tell you before we bring up our last group and then after that our special presentation to be that as some of you know but maybe not everybody knows at the same time that girls are in their holocausts the mothers of both the girls and the boys program attend a holocaust in this room on Friday nights and for the moms who did not know that we invite you next to come join us inshallah and I think it's incredibly important that what is taught in the girls holocaust is reiterated and taught in the women's holocaust so that all these beautiful and wonderful lessons are re-emphasized at home because you can't only grow in two hours one time a week nor can you be Muslim two hours one time a week inshallah as all of you know it's an ongoing process and so I've been really touched about the mothers here as well and all the growth that has happened with the women too so come to me now as you can see it's a very comprehensive program going from our little bitty girls all the way through the ages of women come to me now and with that on that note we'll bring up our final group our birds of paradise the birds of paradise are the only groups that actually name themselves the other groups are all named by my teacher who had come up with very specific name groups rainbows and fizzy bees and rose buds the birds of paradise are self-named and they are our high schoolers so welcome to our birds of paradise but please give our voices a hand Aslam alaykum and welcome to my guest we are the birds of paradise group class consisting of mostly high school students the topic we will be discussing today is afara as humans we wake up in the morning for school or work we are all driven by different things I want the biggest house the nicest car the newest phone materialism has driven our society past this limit we have come to valuable items thinking it will make us happy the things that we can physically touch and see as Muslims in a time of great modernization and progression it is essential that we remember our akhla now I would like to add that my version of akhla will be different than yours the same way that my wordly desires are different than yours if I were to ask you to design a home for yourself in which you will live out the rest of your life how would you go about it would you leave the last minute details the main things that you want to the last day would you just hope that I will somehow manage to conjure up what you want without any actions from your part in the same way our daily actions are what is building our akhla our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stated you will die the way you live find the golden hills a 19 year old Muslim girl who came from the deepest pits of Detroit, Michigan my name is Aleah at times and by diving all the time I feel lost in this place like an innocent lamb stuck in a group of hungry wolves I worked day and night to make the living and when I do have time to rest I question my need for living my need in this junior sometimes I wonder if the conditions I live in now is because of a mistake on my part sometimes in the future or in the past often I feel like the world the full world is against me but I don't know why I'm being haunted this way I do my dark brown hair and a messy bun throw my bag on my shoulder and walk out the broken our first question is what does Akhira mean to you? Akhira means to stay on the right path and be successful for the year after Akhira is a time, place and reward we spend our lifetime working towards so we can prove ourselves to Allah and please Him Akhira means that all of our actions that we've done affect that one day Akhira to me means the end of this world Akhira means the time we're all working toward Akhira to me is to improve everyday and to have an impact on the people around me Akhira is the purpose why we live on this earth it will be the result industry here out there for me is the life after this life to me Akhira means forgetting everything that we're going through and focusing on the real goal which is getting to Jinnah that we're inshallah going to get to to go back to Allah and to stay He is please Him the world is just a covering hiding from us the real thing what we live for act for and wait for the after that some of us turn a blind eye to the path we all do at some point or another but some more than others God looks for that sincerity in us for the light even just a speck of it He sees it in our heart then from that we will be judged and taken into account for our actions we'll get what we deserve a reward or a punishment and that will be our after that the question is what are your after goals to practice patience and self-resistance inshallah my after a goal is at the end of each day to take a moment to reflect on my day and forgive anyone who has wronged me because you never want to have bill will for anyone in your heart I'm helping fill my community in constant self every day and use an effort to better myself every day to have unfathomable knowledge about my deen and our prophets think before acting and refrain from anger as the prophets will always understand my self better than what God wants from me tears seeping through the crevices of my fingers stumbling without anything particular in mind they're disappointed when I've ended up there isn't much you can do in darkness you can't even breathe not real breathing but you want to wake up and do things things that make you kinder and happier and closer to God I keep my mind in my eyes open now I no longer hide behind my hands living in a sort of trap I made myself I see life as a stunning array of paths to choose from from me to dark corners and others to bright sunny valleys I choose to travel to places that are high up they take climbing and tripping and deep breaths and they have the most beautiful views and the most beautiful people you could ever meet this is how I walk now I walk in the direction of what God wants a well-lit journey okay brothers and sisters now we ask for you all to raise your hands in the eyes our girls lead us in a group where the path of those who deserve your wrath and Ya'Allah please let us be among those who are under the shade of your throne on the day of judgment and Ya'Allah please let us drink from the hands of those who are Allah Ya'Allah please always help me have good intentions make me a woman of my words and not just make intentions to do good but to act upon it as well Ya'Allah please make me a better person each day Ya'Allah please let us all look so straight ahead Ya'Allah please forgive the sense of the believers on the day of judgment Ya'Allah bring peace to our families and mothers in times of struggles and hardship Ya'Allah thank you for everything that you have blessed us all with please help us to become closer to you but I think we're on and praying every day please help us because we know that you will always be with us Ya'Allah thank you for everything you have given us and have not given us please give Muhammad to Allah Ya'Allah we pray for you to give us health and wealth so we can use his advantages to better worship you Ya'Allah Ya'Allah please let us appreciate everything we have and let us fulfill the rights of our parents Ya'Allah please let us see the faces of every single person in this room again to make us people you love and your prophets love and the people of righteousness love now I'm going to please recite Niyatma and Kusna please a special presentation they would like to make wonderful goodies and treats and lots of pizza waiting in the other room but we need a few more moments of your unprovided attention okay I really really need you guys to quiet down please Peace be upon you my name is Rajat and I'm here with my co-facilitator Amber so this year we've had many amazing girls but we would like to make a shout out to two girls in particular one young lady has gone above and beyond by balancing Dean and Dunya throughout the Halakha she worked tutoring kids excelling in AP classes and being an active role model to her siblings despite her rigors and ties she managed to make time to our Halakha and be an active leader and participant it's been a pleasure to see her flourish over the last two years the second young lady who wants to shout out is the Mashed-in pillar she brings knowledge maturity and humor to our group always the first here and the last to leave she sets an example for the younger girls through her hard work and persistence for the last technology and her thirst for the Dean always has words of wisdom to share with the humility being one of her innate characteristics it has been a pleasure to see both of them girls please welcome please welcome our college-bound future try-do future testing future testing Kusna and Nama TAPI we've been with us for a long time and many many memories from the time that they were in middle school and into high school it is incredible to see the girls grow and blossom nurture give back come back into the group to teach the younger girls and it's all we wish them all success until the end as they head into the next stage of their life we now want to also I don't know I want to actually say something really important she never lets me do this I'm just going to put it in we should come to the end of that since her Avala Hala as you know is our coordinator for the Muslim Ahalakas she is also the coordinator in her summer camps and honestly like I said earlier in the part of our program come to the end of that she knows the names of all your daughters and all the girls and she's able to tell who goes where and which classroom around which part of this building come to the end of that and with her we actually probably couldn't survive so we want to take a moment please for her and her children and her family for all the hard work with day in and day out Friday in and Friday out don't stop come to the end of please make take just a moment we ask Allah to bless her and her family and give them all kinds of kheid and fistunya and in the afternoon and on that note we have a couple of girls who want to come and actually say a couple of things as we're kind of bringing our program to the end come on over girls I should give for everything they've done for us this really wouldn't have been possible without them and they're such amazing people this is really a truly an experience that you'll never forget so we really just want to thank them for everything that they've done we have a lot of love and we need them as well now for the group of ladies that came up are some of our teachers and I didn't want to take a moment actually this is part of the program we want to take a moment and thank all of our teachers I hope you each have the opportunity the ladies who run your girls' programs in each class there are one or two main teachers and several assistants we have women teachers but we also have several college age and school age teachers as well can help us and our assistants and they are wonderful they have a really good lesson to teach them before your girls come so they come extra early to take their own class in Halakha before they teach your girls here at the bastion and also throughout the week planning and as you know on the whatsapp text threads that they have back and forth and back and forth deciding what crafts their girls will do this week what events they're going to plan what Qiyam-e-Lay they're going to have just speaking of Qiyam-e-Lay I just want to put a note here that I've had the blessing to attend part of the Qiyam-e-Lays or some of the groups that I love and it's always amazing to me for example the busybies on your Qiyam we had an amazing discussion and they talked everything from girls friends bullying they wanted parents they had so many questions we had this long Q&A that they were so excited to share all kinds of ideas and then they had a fashion show and a talent show and in that fashion show and talent show I was amazed of the different talents our girls have the beautiful voices there should be lots and lots of gymnastic they were doing part-wheels in their fancy dresses up and down this room up and down and up and down part-wheels and teaching each other gymnastic tricks all of this before they had their prayer of Qiyam-e-Lay Qiyam-e-Lay and it was a very fun and enjoyable experience right busybies Qiyam-e-Lay Qiyam-e-Lay I think if we told them we'd have a Qiyam tonight they'd be here all night I think so too with the parents of paradise I really enjoy having a Q&A session with them as well and much you know deep deep questions we had a box of questions that we went through and really discussed some pretty heavy things and important things and things that run through the minds of these young women who are now also being to this next stage of life serious things and I think that's what's important they have a place that feels safe that they get solid and solid Islamic knowledge that they act upon that you see there to be discussion of what is Akhira what are their goals how advanced their thinking is and really what they're hoping to do which is we say always have Akhira vision be here in the journey of Holi but absolutely have your sights on the Akhira so I'm so pleased but that's what they chose to present to you with Hamsini about our program would never be complete without you as parents so we want to thank you and we also want to thank our teachers so we want to take a moment here and do bear with us all we do about Falamina my name you contributed in the last week or so to gifts for the teachers and it's not the welfare we really appreciate it we do have some parts of some gifts we want to give to the teachers I don't see the frogs and bunnies teachers here yet so I'll start with the teachers of the older girls and kind of work our way down instead so if Kala Georgeette and Kala Ember please teachers to the stage please groups get younger and then we make sure that all the girls get the attention that they deserve so our rainbows teacher Kala Vegdoline can stay and watch the group pictures again our registration will open tomorrow and the registration will be on the FTC website I will also be emailing out the link to the parent on the young customer's hand or on the wrongful foundation with the link to register and then registration will open at noon tomorrow for both of them we also have a couple more announcements parents always want to know what's happening after this program ends so a couple of things normally we take a break for normal dawn and I hope Insha'Allah for the women in the room that you'll join us for some very important dates if you can keep them in mind one of which is May 28th and June 1st will be in this room on those nights after Taraweeh prayer is over we'll have women's prayer on both of those nights with luxuries and prayer and so on until the time of some good and we'll pray the prayer together and we'll head home so that's what's happening immediately after this after that Insha'Allah as Hala Amra mentioned our girls caps open up so we go from Friday into the summer camps and they will start at the last week all through the first week of August Insha'Allah so we hope your girls will enroll into those programs and continue to benefit in the now I also wanted to make a couple words Nama Nama had an announcement for a fundraising campaign that's happening and as did I Insha'Allah so Nama come forward and we'll just make those announcements before we do the pictures My name is Nama I'm a senior school's Muslim Student Association so Insha'Allah on May 25th I'd like to invite you all to a fundraiser that My MSA and I are holding Insha'Allah we're going to be donating money to Syria through the Islamic Relief it'll be a dinner the location is still to be determined it'll either be in our schools library or in our schools cafeteria Insha'Allah Hala Amra will send out an email and keep you as updated I just wanted to let you guys there it'll begin the doors will open at 6.30 and the event itself will begin at 7 so Insha'Allah if you guys would be able to make it out it'll be a niftar and I would love to see you all there if you can't make it you guys can also we're going to be collecting donations so if you guys would want to meet me after this and you can give me the money Insha'Allah I'll put it with our funds for the fundraiser donations and for the work that our teens do Insha'Allah also for those families who have been part of the Arafa program for some years although this is separate from the Arafa Foundation I have many of us actually women in this room have been supporting an important project of an orphanage a couple of orphanages actually that are in Syria one is for boys and one is for girls and the funds that should go directly to as a cat go directly to the children themselves for their education building food and their Islamic education as well and that is given as Sadaqa is close to actually building up the orphanage itself and making exist of buildings and so on and so forth those are actually in Syria those though are only collected by cash and so for those who are interested in donating those that are donating to that project you're welcome to see me afterwards those are hand delivered to actually my teacher who delivers directly to the group that's organizing the orphanage or diversifying more funds this Ramadan inshallah to Adam it'll also be collecting funds during the woman's and I also wanted to announce for both men and women there is a Ramadan lecture that I'll be doing at Hub 925 on June 2nd on the spirituality and keeping up our spiritual growth in Ramadan and I welcome you all to talk about I think that those are announcements yes our announcements are summer camp so please register right away they're going to be week by week registration so you can register for whichever week but we would like your girls or your boys to attend the program but they do fill up very quickly and we get waitlist right away and families are always asking for spots so please do not delay registering your girls if you'd like them to attend this summer or your boys