The Council Of European Jamaats

The Khawateen Committee of the Council of European Jamaats in collaboration with the Women’s Desk of the World Federation held a one day Seminar on ‘Effective Parenting with an Islamic Perspective’ on Saturday 17th December 2005 at the Zainabiya Centre in Birmingham.

Salamunalaykum,

Khawateen committee consists of a chair, a vice chair and a secretary.  The working team has 5 project co-ordinators who provide services mainly to our women and young people within the community.  Within our team we also have a supervisor from Muslim Youth Help line and a sub committee board member from HIB.  The focus of the committee is to provide services where possible, identify needs and bring awareness to the community in identified area.  This has been carried out through lectures, seminars, focus groups, camps, outings, leaflets and discussions.

Activities carried out since the last meeting held on 22nd November 2005.

The Stanmore Bereavement Support Group is functioning well. It is now a year and a half since we started. We have 7 members. Fatima Virani and Zeenat Datoo are joint co-ordinators of the group. We make the initial contact with all bereaved people and keep it open to them to let us visit them.

In May of this year the young girl’s camp was very kindly hosted by Milton Keynes Jamaat.  A group of 34 girls arrived at the imambara equipped with sleeping bags, ready for their three day sleepover.