(In Arabic) Ms. Samia Attia Dawoud(f): I work here in Al Ihsan (Charity Center) because I love charitable work.

HOST (IN ARABIC): Caring viewers, welcome to Good People, Good Works on Supreme Master Television. The world is like a giant family, so when some members face challenges in life, others who are able lend a helping hand. Grounded in the timeless values of Islam, Al Ihsan Charity Center in Ajman, United Arab Emirates serves as a compassionate source of help, spreading Allah's grace and love to the region's disadvantaged and vulnerable.

Ms. Khan(f): I get everything. Through this charity, God gives us rent for the house and everything through their charity work; (they have a) ２０ year (history) of charitable work. This organization provides everything for everyone.

HOST: The work of the Center began in １９９０ through the efforts of Sheikh Mohammed bin Ali bin Rashid Al-Nuaimi. In １９９８ the Center was officially registered in the Emirate of Ajman through the kind gesture of His Highness Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al-Nuaimi, a member of the United Arab Emirates' Supreme Council and the Ruler of Ajman and has been helped by his continuous, generous support.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): While we at Al Ihsan Charity Center help all groups, the bulk of the assistance goes to women, widows, deserted ones and those whose spouses are medical patients, unable to work, banished or imprisoned.

The orphans are the ones who have lost their breadwinner or lost their parents. They are also of the category that we can or should help them in this institution so they may help themselves in the future. We work under the slogan, "Women without supporters and children without sponsors."

HOST: The goal of the charity is to enable those it assists to eventually become self-sufficient so that they can in turn help others in need.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): We offer medical, financial, social and food assistance for families so they feel that through comprehensive care we'll be a substitute for the loss of a breadwinner. This comprehensive care includes education; that is, providing care for students in both education and health.

HOST: The Center makes no distinctions based on faith or ethnic background when providing aid to those in need. Thus far the Center has helped ６,０００ families and ３２５ orphans of different nationalities in Ajman. Families may be given a wide variety of things to help make home life more comfortable including kitchen appliances, furniture, clothes, shoes, personal items and so on.

Ms. Susen Yonz (f): I am a Filipina but I was married to a local from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and I have one daughter. I get a lot of help, especially for my daughter's school supplies, and for the house rent and if there is a chance also, they are giving us help with our electric bill and support for the rice; everything for the goods and stuff. I get a lot of help in the name of Sheikh Humaid. Thank you very much in the name of Allah. Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): This aid is between US$２７２ and US$６８０ ( to) for sponsored cases where they may take a monthly sum of money or food of more than US$１６３. They may receive all the financial and food help, depending on the situation of the family.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): Of course, for assistance related to food, within our monthly budget, we buy food and then distribute it, or through daily donations coming to us from public benefactors. Such daily assistance increases or decreases through the regular collection of a variety of foods, which includes daily necessities. During the holy month of Ramadan, we offer breakfasts, up to ８０,０００ meals per month, which are distributed in various locations in the Emirate of Ajman.

HOST: Ramadan is observed by millions of Muslims around the world and is marked by daily fasting. It is the special month when the Holy Qur'an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. In the Qu'ran, Chapter ２, verse １８５, it says: 『Ramadan is the month during which the Qu'ran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book.

Those of you who witness this month shall fast therein.』 The end of the Ramadan is marked by Id-al-Fitr or the Feast of Fast-ending, a three-day holiday. The Center has a number of Ramadan-related programs that bring happiness to orphans.

Abdullah: The other project for Ramadan is an "orphan feast's gift." An orphan on this day, because there is no father or sponsor, needs to feel joy in his heart, so we have a project called "orphan feast's gift." It is a sum of money handed over to the orphans so that they can buy things that they love and feel joy in their hearts on this day.

The third project for Ramadan is "feast's clothes." At the feast, as known in all Arab and Islamic countries, they wear new clothes, the best clothes, where they boast of these clothes among each other. So the orphan should feel happy on this day, so we have made this project a major project for Ramadan and holidays.

HOST: As part of its mission to promote independence and self-reliance in aid recipients, the charity helps children get a needed education so that when they grow older they can be productive members of society.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): In families, there are thousands of students who need to pursue their studies. Thus, through a project called "School Bag" the Center helps from ７００ to ８００ students.

We provide them with school bags containing all the items needed during the students' school year. We also contribute by providing the tuition for students in their schools.

HOST: Vocational education is also supported by the Al Ihsan Charity Center and those going through its training programs learn a wonderful skill set that is applicable to a promising career featuring economic independence.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): We have begun development projects including sewing, embroidery and handicrafts. We have an Al Ihsan press project for training in design and printing services. We also have a training project or training school for languages and software development. We are in the process, God willing, of establishing an Al Ihsan professional institute for vocational education.

Ms. Kefah Hamia (f１ For students who graduate from here, of course, the Center, God bless, and does not leave them; they presented this (sewing) machine to them. For me, I taught and gave them a profession ... workmanship. In addition, the machine from the Center is the beginning of a livelihood for them.

Ms. Kefah Hamia (f１): The products of the girls here are mostly sold through festivals that we participate in. We participated in a festival in Ajman and another one in Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), in the Heritage Village in Sharjah. At these festivals we sell products and clothes and then we give the proceeds of the sales to sponsored families here at the Center.

HOST: A successful teacher, Kefah Hamia is a wonderful example of someone who has previously benefited from the Center's assistance.

Ms. Kefah Hamia (f１): Thankfully, this center adopted me until I got to this stage, got to be able to teach students and let them reach the point that I reached. Rather than to ask people for help, I can provide what I need myself. I teach my students that, rather than you ask for help, try to rely on yourself by learning the skill, learning sewing here. This way they get benefit, earn money and become self-sufficient instead of relying on others.

Ms. Kefah Hamia(f): They will work and get paid, God willing. In this way I help them out of the tunnel of dependency.

HOST: In ２００３ Al Ihsan Medical Center was launched as a single clinic and has now become eight clinics where economically -disadvantaged patients are provided medical examinations and treatment at little to no cost.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): At the medical center we currently have a dental clinic, an internal medicine clinic, an obstetrics clinic and a children's clinic. We have an integrated laboratory containing all the equipment that exists in any hospital.

Mr. Zubair (m): Per day we have more than ４００ people coming here for tests - anemia, thalassemia and cancer screening. I am working as a lab technician, taking blood and checking evaluations and I am from India. So this is a feel-good job.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): And the other part, we provide monthly exams, which are necessary for cases suffering from diseases, serious diseases such as (high) blood pressure or hepatitis and some diseases such as diabetes that one lives with throughout his life.

Ms. Samia Attia Dawoud(f): When patients come here, we measure blood pressure, temperature and weight. There are underprivileged patients, and others who are ordinary. For the underprivileged, when they come they are not happy, not able to afford treatment, so we offer them assistance. As soon as they receive the assistance, they go out full of joy.

Here we do the ECG (Electrocardiograph), we give injections at discounted prices. We offer treatment to the underprivileged patients for free, but for the ordinary patients, it costs US$１３ with free medication. Every day, around ２００ patients come, and we work two shifts, one in the morning and the other in the evening. We offer services for children, adults, young people, pensioners and the elderly.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): The number of employees at Al Ihsan Charity Center in the medical department or the center in general is more than ４６ workers or employees. For volunteers, there are a lot of them; we now have a campaign to get a thousand volunteers. A volunteer is a person who collaborates with us here; today you have seen some of those young men and women.

All nationalities work with us, that is United Arab Emirates nationals and other nationalities. The most important thing is that one has to love collaborating with us in the field of helping people.

There are volunteers from the United States of America, Britain, Australia, India, Indonesia and many other nations.

HOST: In addition to medical care, pharmaceutical services are also provided.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): The pharmacy you have seen contains all the medications, and thank God, most of them are donations from benefactors, people who help us, pharmaceutical companies and factories located in the country.

HOST: To enhance the number of services provided to patients, a new １６-story-hospital is now under construction that will truly help improve community public health when completed.

Mr. Abdulla Jedi(m): Its level will be very high in all the services and the hospital will operate all its clinics ２４-hours a day, such as emergency operations and everything. As for the cases treated and in need, treatment will be free. Al Ihsan Charity Center will bear the costs of the hospital and the medical center and be self-sufficient without the assistance of any other entity.

HOST: Mr. Abdullah Jedi and other staff at Al Ihsan Charity Center as well as all volunteers, we sincerely thank you for generously sharing your time and resources with the less fortunate of your nation. Charitable institutions like yours contribute to spreading love and goodness among all people so that they may live in greater peace.

For more details on the Al Ihsan Charity Center , please visit www.AlIhsan-Org.ae

Halo gentle viewers, and welcome to Good People, Good Works. This week we feature Under The Same Sun, a Canadian non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the lives of Persons With Albinism (PWA). Albinism is a rare genetically inherited condition in which a child is born with no pigmentation in the skin, hair, or eyes.

Founded in ２００８ by Peter Ash, Under The Same Sun works to ensure that PWA's have the information needed to effectively manage their condition, educational opportunities, and access to healthcare so that they may live full and happy lives.

The group currently concentrates on aiding those with albinism in Tanzania, an East African nation. Peter Ash(m): The organization is focused on helping persons with albinism or as what might be more commonly understood by your viewers, albinos. It's a recessive inherited gene, so both parents carry the gene, and the child is born with it. And it causes a lack of melanin production.

A lack of melanin production causes a lack of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes. And so that lack of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes results in the condition that you see that I have today and which also leads to a visual impairment.

Peter Ash(m): Depending on the type of albinism, there's a range of visual impairment. A person with perfect vision has ２０／２０ (vision). So the visual impairment can sort of typically range anywhere from ２０／８０, all the way up to ２０／４００ (vision). ２０／２００ (vision) is legally blind, which is what I am.

So the visual impairment becomes a challenge for education in terms of seeing the blackboard at school, reading and writing. With proper low vision devices, glasses and aids, that can often be assisted and compensated for.

So the low vision is the biggest challenge. Persons with albinism have to be very careful to cover their skin with long sleeved shirts, longer pants, and with hats. Ideally they have wide rims to protect the face, the ears and the neck. And parts of the skin that are exposed to excessive sun, need to be wearing that very strong SPF (sun protection factor) sun block to take care of the skin.

HOST: Peter Ash and his older brother were both born with albinism. Fortunately, as the two boys were growing up, their parents took great care to see that the special needs of their sons were met.

Peter Ash(m): My parents were very supportive. They defended us. They made sure that that we had the best medical treatment possible in terms of ophthalmologists and in terms of genetic counseling. And when we went into the school, my mom would always go and talk to the teachers and make sure that we were getting the attention deserved.

So in my particular case, I had a huge (amount of) support at home, a huge belief in me by my parents and particularly my mother played a huge role there.

HOST: Mr. Ash's mother helped him to understand that his appearance is a gift from God.

Peter Ash(m): My mom said, 『Peter, how many kids in your school look like you？』 I said, 『Nobody, that's the point.』 She said, 『Yes, that is the point. You are made special, God made you the way you are. You're a special human being and you are unique and you are different from the others.

And never let anybody put you down for who you are. And we love you and you're unique and you're special.』 And really my sense of self-worth was grounded in the fact that I was made the way I was for a reason and this was not an accident.

HOST: Constantly nurtured by his parents' love, and by a deep faith in God, Peter Ash grew up with a strong desire to help others.

Peter Ash(m): In my very early career development, I was in sales／marketing but it didn't take long before I decided that I felt God's calling to get involved in ministry. I was ordained in the ministry for a decade. And during that time I was involved in all kinds of ministry opportunities, helping people, serving communities and really felt very much alive doing what I felt God had asked me to do.

HOST: After that point Mr. Ash moved into business, an endeavor he remains involved in, but the bulk of his time is now spent working on Under The Same Sun's charitable activities.

Peter Ash(m): The big dominant thing in my life right now is my work with Under The Same Sun. I believe that God has given me the gifts to be entrepreneurial, to now use them and to use the wealth that He's blessed me with to make a difference in the lives of others. So the biggest joy we have now is being able to change someone's life, to use my faith in God to say, 『Everything I have is not mine.

Every dollar in the bank is not mine. And the Earth is the Lord's and everything in it.』 So everything I have is a gift from God. And I offer it with an open hand freely to be used by Him to make a difference in other people's lives.

HOST: Don Sawatzky is the Director of Operations for Under The Same Sun and has accompanied Mr. Ash to Tanzania a number of times to help further the charity's mission.

Mr. Don Sawatzky (m): Our particular focus right now is on people with albinism in Tanzania and more generally on the continent of Africa. We've established an office there now that has ２１ employees; １３ are people with albinism themselves.

They're all Tanzanians. We're extremely proud of this. We have an office in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and from that office they go out to the various places.

Supreme Master TV (f): Is Tanzania a country that has more people with albinism than other countries？

Mr. Don Sawatzky (m): Yes, they have a significantly higher rate of albinism than most of the rest of the world. The numbers we're using, and these numbers vary considerably depending on researchers and groups that are talking about it, but we're saying that it's about one in ２０,０００ here in Canada, the United States and Europe.

So you can live your whole life and never really encounter a person with albinism here. In Tanzania, the number that we're using there, is about one in ２,０００.

HOST: To enable people with albinism to live more joyful and fulfilled lives, Under The Same Sun offers several different programs.

Mr. Don Sawatzky (m): We have four basic things that we do there; we have ESF, Education Scholarship Fund that focuses on creating educational opportunities for children with albinism and adults with albinism. We also have an advocacy in public awareness team that does advocating by creating awareness for the public about the genetic condition of albinism.

We have a group called Health Education and Emergency, that is set up specifically for the persons with albinism in our Education Scholarship Fund, to ensure that they are educated about their own health. And if they have any health needs, if they need more vision care, skin cancer care, we will take care all of their health needs, and also train them on how to take care of their own health, since many of them don't know that. And our last department is the Media International Affairs.

HOST: The Educational Scholarship Fund has enabled over ３００ children and young adults with albinism in Tanzania to attend high quality private boarding schools in their country.

Peter Ash(m): And now they're getting the best education money can buy in that country. And they are now getting their health taken care of. They are getting teachers who are attending to them more than ever before. They're being accepted. And so our vision is that now these ３００ kids who are all the way from kindergarten up to university age, that you fast-forward １０ years and you see these kids who have now been in these good quality school environments getting an education, what they will be capable of doing？

They will be taking their rightfully place in Tanzanian society. So they will become business people and teachers and lawyers and broadcasters and stay-at-home moms and dads, and they'll become community leaders and ministers.

HOST: On a trip to Tanzania in late ２０１０, Peter Ash visited a little boy with albinism named Manyasi, whose life has been transformed since he began to attend a private boarding school near the city of Mwanza thanks to Under The Same Sun.

Peter Ash(m): He's happy, he's smiling; his demeanor is completely different than when we saw him the first time. I had an hour's visit with him, and my wife and I gave him a few little gifts, and books and things and we had a good time. And as I was leaving, I was holding his hand and I walking toward the bus to leave the school, and he said 『One day I plan to be president.』

There's never been a person with albinism as a president of any country in the world I know of. I don't know if Manyasi will make it or not. But, whether he's president or not, he'll make a big difference, because you can see already that seed of belief he has in himself.

HOST: There are encouraging signs for people with albinism in Tanzania in terms of opportunities to fulfill their dreams. In ２０１０, Salum Khalfani Bar'wani was elected to the Tanzanian National Assembly, winning the Lindi Town constituency seat in southern Tanzania, thus becoming the first elected albino in the nation's history.

Mr. Bar'wani stated, "My joy has no end. The people of Lindi have used their wisdom and have appreciated clearly that albinos are capable.』 Hadra Badru from Mwanza is a beauty queen featured in 『Black and White,』 a ２０１０ documentary made in collaboration with Under The Same Sun by Afro-Canadian director Jean-François Méan. 『Black and White』 introduces a number of Tanzanians with albinism and their stories to the world.

Hadra(f): I decided to enter the Miss Mwanza beauty contest because I always envied the models I saw on TV. And I asked myself: Why is it that people with albinism like me never enter？

HOST: Under The Same Sun continues to work tirelessly to support and assist people with albinism and Peter Ash has this wonderful message for all those with the condition.

Peter Ash(m): You're a beautiful person. God created you the way you are. You're not a mistake. You're not an accident. God doesn't make mistakes. And you are his daughter, his son and he loves you. And you must hold your head up high. Be proud of who you are.

HOST: Peter Ash, Don Sawatzky and Under The Same Sun staff, our sincere thanks for raising awareness about albinism and for striving to ensure that the special needs of Tanzanians with this condition are being met. Your uplifting work provides a guiding light for the world to follow, and we wish you much success in your future noble endeavors.

For more details on Under The Same Sun, please visit: www.UnderTheSameSun.com Or connect with them on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/UnderTheSameSun