Relief and Charitable Foundation of India (RCFI), a non-government organization under Markaz, Calicut, India, is the largest charity organization in South India headed by Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed, one of the most influential Muslim scholar in South India. It is carving a niche in the field of social educational and charitable activities on its fundamental principle that’s making happy living to all. Since its inception RCFI has been working at grass roots level in order to improve the quality of life of underprivileged, socially backward and marginalized groups.
Orphan Care
Giving hopes to orphans and destitute to reshape their future with goal-oriented life, RCFI spends a major share of its relief for educating them, building homes and constructing destitute shelters where they are offered quality education with food and accommodation at free of coast. Further, they are offered trainings in art, craft and vocational subjects and modern life skills.
Sweet water supply
Water scarcity is fast becoming India’s No. 1 woe, one third of population have to deal with daily shortages. The foundation has been drilling wells; bore wells and installing portable water tanks in rural and urban areas alike to tackle the issue. People from more than twenty states are the beneficiaries of the project. So far 2,425 drinking water projects have been commissioned in various states. There are thousands of public water projects implemented in various remote areas of the nation and thousands of families enjoy its benefit.
Edu-Support programs
As education is center for all the development the organization plan and organize programs related to quality of education. RCFI recruits and trains volunteers and interns to support program activities; participates in resource development activities that result in measurable positive educational outcomes for the community, and distributes edu-kit scholarship to promote higher education.
Income Generation Program
RCFI believes that the social change will take place when the basic needs of human are fulfilled. So, we focus more equipping someone to earn his daily bread, rather than giving temporary supports, which will not only give him a means to his necessities but will also, endow him with a sense of pride. RCFI guides the unemployed and unwaged, and distributes self-employment tools in the form of shops and financial help for self-employment.
Feed the Hunger
Taking it as a serious concern, more than 1,000 deprived are getting the daily meal of hygienic and nourishing in many slums and lanes of the country. Monthly and occasional food kit distribution by RCFI volunteers are reaching out the very needy population unseen in mainstream around us.
Special Care
RCFI as an organization working for the upliftment of the vulnerable and backward classes since its inception tries to alleviate the issues related to those deprived and underprivileged. RCFI focuses attention on the differently abled and special need children by providing them special school, aid and care centers helping them to come to the mainstream of the society. Monthly stipends and pensions are given to deserving applicants after strict evaluation.
Dress Distribution
Thousands have escaped from the brink of death with the timely interferences of RCFI in distributing winter clothes, blankets and even normal dresses. More than 60,000 dress kits for kids in different parts of India were distributed in 2013 as a part of Dress One Million project of Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of UAE and the Ruler of Dubai.
Medicina Health Care
The Medical Care wing of RCFI, under the banner “Medicina”, is aimed at providing high-quality; accessible care to the patient in rural and urban areas. Medicina the fully equipped volunteer wing vigilantly provides medical aids, establishing equipped dispensaries conducting medical camps offering ambulance services, and so on.
Markaz Knowledge City
Markaz Knowledge City is a dream project of Markaz. Located at the divine beauty of Western Ghats, the knowledge city is anticipated to be an integrated township providing infrastructure for high class academic institutions, health care, employment and residential facilities and aims at filling a wide gap in the transmission of knowledge to the new generation and will be a panacea of an unconventional education
We realize that in the era of global influx of knowledge , the most urgent step for a community to survive is to strive for a globally competent education. Such an education can make the future generation an enlightened citizen of the globe. In the Knowledge City moral education will be imparted to the students in and through the modes of modern material education.
The pivotal objective of MKC is to create leaders of the future, by imparting holistic education, in an environment of excellence - where students and faculties from different parts of the world come together for the purpose of learning. The close proximity to an economic zone focused on knowledge based applications will give the students at MKC to be trained and gain exposure to be ready for real world requirements. — SG
