Taawon (Welfare Association) is a non-profit, civic organization launched in Geneva in the year 1983, upon the initiative of a group of Palestinian business leaders and intellectuals. Taawon has become one of the largest organizations operating in Palestine and the diaspora camps in Lebanon, whereby it touches the lives of more than one million Palestinians on an annual basis, with half of these beneficiaries being women.
Zakat: Supporting Orphans and the Needy in Palestine
“Zakat expenditures are only for the poor and the needy, and those employed to collect it, and for bringing hearts together, and for freeing captives, and for those in debt, and for the cause of Allah, and for the stranded traveler — an obligation by Allah. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.”
(Surah At-Tawbah: 60)