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Masjid Jamaths Launch 100-days Awareness Campaign against Drug Addiction

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Mangaluru, KARNATAKA :

Mangaluru:

Taking note of the growing incidents of drugs abuse and increase in the number of youth falling prey to drug menace in Dakshina Kannada District, local socio-religious leaders of Mangaluru and Dakshina Kannada on Saturday, December 14 called a press meet and announced the launch of the campaign by Masjid Jamaths across the district against the menace.

Photo : mangalorean.com
Photo : mangalorean.com

Addressing the mediapersons Syed Mohammed Beary, Chairman, Bearys Group, said, “In Dakshina Kannada District especially in Mangaluru the drug menace has been rising rapidly and to curb the drug menace educational institutions, as well as the NGOs, are working along with the police department. If we don’t curb it now, in three years from now the situation in Dakshina Kannada will go out of control and will be worse than Punjab”.

Syed Beary further said, “The most tragic part of the story is that the curse of drug abuse has already found inroads into our rural areas wherein school going students are being exposed to the addiction. Students of sixth and seventh grades including girls are falling prey to addiction. The situation is turning worse with each passing day. Some of the youth take it as a means of easy money and indulge in drug peddling. Some take it as business and the business addiction always results in the swift increase in crime rate. This has a direct impact on the safety and security of the people in the region”.

Syed also said, “Normally almost every parent believes that their children are innocent and will not get addicted to drugs. Such an illusion prevents them from being vigilant. Mosques in Dakshina Kannada have already decided to run a campaign across the District to fight against the drug menace. Their focus is to educate the parents, the students and the youth on the issue and create awareness in every family under their jurisdiction. The 100-days campaign will include a series of awareness programs involving all the Masjid Jamaths and Committees across the region. The drive will run under the guidance and supervision of Twaqa Ahmed Musliyar and Bekal Ibrahim Musliyar, the two prominent Qazis of the region. The District and City Police have offered their full support to this campaign”, he added.

“The District and Mangaluru City Police have initiated various campaigns and drives against drugs and have been on a constant state of alert. Several voluntary organization have also been doing their bit to curb the menace. Despite all the efforts, lack of awareness among the masses, the youth, and their parents have resulted in the situation going out of control”, he stated.

Speaking at the press conference B M Mumtaz Ali, General Secretary Karnataka Muslim Jamath, Dakshina Kannada added that the Masjids alone cannot curb the drug menace in the District and called on religious leaders and places to play their part in order to make the District drug-free. There is an immediate need to educate people in the region about the power and networks of the drug Mafia, the cunning ways used by them to promote extremely dangerous addictive substances and the grave consequences of addiction. Temples, Mosques, Churches and all such places revered by the masses can play a great role in educating the masses and making the entire society vigilant against the devastating epidemic of addiction.

Syed Mohammed Beary also called for support from all sections of the society and anticipated the active participation of the leaders and representatives of all the communities, parties, educational institutions, NGOs, Social activists and various student and youth organizations in this campaign. He also called for support from the media and other organizations in the noble initiative.

Haji Mohammed Haneef, General Secretary, Zeenath Baksh Juma Masjid, Mangaluru, Haji Golthamajalu Mohammed Hanif, President, Hidaya Foundation, B A Mohammed Ali, Member, Karnataka State Food Commission and Riyaz Ahmed Kannur, President Talent Research Foundation, Mangalore were also present.

source: http://www.mangalorean.com / Mangalorean.com / Home> Mangalore News / by Violet Pereira, Team Mangalorean / December 14th, 2019

Time, Tide wait for Mum

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Udupi, KARNATAKA / Ahmedabad, GUJARAT :

WhatsApp group helps 60-year-old woman unite with her family after 3 years

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When Nasrin Banu Mulla aka Rukiya, a 60-year-old woman left her home Navabs Chawl, Danilimda (Ganesh Nagar) in Ahmedabad to meet her daughter Muneera in Surat, little did she know that this journey would take her almost three-and-a-half years to reach Muneera’s house that was just 270 km away.

Nasrin accidentally landed in Mumbai and from there reached Udupi to start living at the Kalmadi bus stand near Malpe. Speaking to Bangalore Mirror, Rasheed Vittal who played an important role in uniting Nasrin with her family, said, “The lady was lucky because she was taken to Vishwasada Mane, a home for destitutes run by Sunil and his wife Elizabeth in Shankarapura of Udupi. She was then mentally disturbed for which she is being treated,” he said.

As her health improved, she began thinking of her children and grandchildren. On seeing children around, she would tell everyone that her grandchildren resembled them. However, she was helpless because she was illiterate and could not recollect her residential address in Ahmedabad. She did not have an address nor a telephone number for people to even help her. Totally unaware about what to do, she spent almost three years and three months in the ashram. She had a feeling that she would never meet her near and dear ones. The ashram staff too made all attempts to find her address, but failed.

She was fortunate to meet Siraj, a resident of Krishnapur working in Saudi Arabia, on December 10. Siraj Krishnapura was on a holiday and had taken his mother to a private hospital in Mukka for treatment. During the same time, the inmates of the destitute home had been to the hospital for a checkup. Nasrin who had covered her head with a shawl caught Siraj’s attention. He approached her and she told him in a Hindi mixed with Bengali about how she was travelling to her daughter Muneera’s house in Surat but accidentally landed in Udupi. She requested Siraj to provide her with a copy of the Quran. He provided her with a mat so that she could perform Namaz and shared this experience on a WhatsApp group, MFriends, with a message that he would be returning back to the Gulf as his holidays were ending and it would be great if someone from the group helped in uniting this lady with her family.

Rasheed, who is also the founder of MFriends, said, “On December 15, we decided to take up the cause of Rukiya. I immediately contacted the orphanage head and collected more details of the woman. Along with her photo and contact numbers of the president of MFriends Haneef Haji Golthamajalu, we shared the post on social media. We then contacted Shantaram Rao, a Mangalurean social worker settled in Ahmedabad for help. Shantaram took the initiative further and saw that the post got maximum reach including mosques as well as Muslim organisations. Several newspapers in Ahmedabad reported the same. We then created a WhatsApp group called Operation Rukiya. The message spread in several Muslim dominated areas of Ahmedabad.”

Within two days, Dilavar called Rasheed Vittal claiming that Nasrin was his mother. He told them that his family had made every attempt to search for her but to no avail. After uniting the family, Rasheed said, “It was a heart touching moment to see a mother unite with her family. They all had tears in their eyes.” Nasrin is widowed and four of her five daughters are married.

source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> News> State / by Deepthi Sanjiv, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / December 21st, 2016