Overview
SSC has several ongoing projects within the United States including Boston, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, New York City, Wisconsin and until recently Santa Fe. Future projects are planned in Washington, DC.
Primary Contact for Country Activities
Mojgan Watson
Email: mojganeh@mac.com
United States
Featured Project: Sufi Service Committee of San Francisco
Where: San Francisco, California
What we are doing: Mission Neighborhood Center's Youth Services program, through its Precita Valley Community Center, offers a safe space for elementary-aged children in the gang-affected Mission neighborhood. Sufi Service San Francisco supports the Mission Neighborhood Center by preparing meals and socializing with the children. Volunteers cooked and served a meal to 30 elementary children and staff in March.
Martin de Porres House of Hospitality is an all-volunteer community center on Potrero Avenue, in an area where the fentanyl crisis is highly visible in San Francisco. On the fourth Saturday of each month, members of Sufi Service San Francisco join other volunteers to prepare and serve a fresh meal for local adults. SSC of San Francisco also accepts donated clothing and hygiene kits for redistribution at Martins.
How you can help: To participate, please contact sanfrancisco@sufiservice.org.
Featured Project: Sufi Service Committee of Boston
Where: Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
What we are doing: The Sufi Service Committee of Boston supports several service activities:
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n collaboration with Healthy Tomorrow, an American group working to stop female genital mutilation (FGM) in Mali, Boston supporters helped a human rights project through a donated rug for Healthy Tomorrow's yearly fundraising gala in December.
In the last year, Healthy Tomorrow stopped 158 incidents of FGM in 7 villages, and the decision to stop FGM continues to spread through villages. With the help of a Hungarian woman, the Hungarian government built Healthy Tomorrow a new office, complete with a safe house, medical office, and training center to help girls who fear or are hurt because of their families' plans of FGM for them.
Healthy Tomorrow greatly appreciates the beautiful rug that Mr. Nooragh of Noor Rugs gave for the gala.
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For in-person service, core volunteers and new volunteers sort, organize, fold clothes, garden, or prepare meals for homeless children, women, and men. These service events are held on Saturdays from 8:50 am to 12:30 pm at Noor Oriental Rugs, 769 Concord Avenue in Cambridge, MA.
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The Boston team also supports at-home meal preparation and shelter meal service.
How you can help: For additional information, please contact Mo Nooraii at boston@sufiservice.org or visit www.NimatullahiSufiBoston.org.
