(22 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dearborn, Michigan – 7 March 2025
1. Various of friends and family sitting down for an iftar dinner, the breaking of the daily fast during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan
2. The Helping Handzzz Foundation board member Hussein Sareini smiles during dinner conversation
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hussein Sareini, Helping Handzzz board member:
“Name of the organization is The Helping Handzzz. So, throughout the month of Ramadan, where we’re fasting from sunrise to sunset, any excess food left over from breaking our fast, we don’t want that to go to waste. So, we go through Dearborn, Dearborn Heights collecting that food. We sort through it. We give some of that food to people in need in our community. And then we make a few meals. Those are passed out throughout downtown Detroit. And then all the excess food is taken to a homeless shelter, which is also in Detroit.”
4. Sareini picks up a food donation from a home
5. Various of Helping Handzzz volunteers in the parking lot of a mosque preparing food for the drive to Detroit
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit – 7 March 2025
6. UPSOUND Volunteer Mariam Hachem approaches a homeless person and says (English): “Hi. We have a meal for you. We’re going to set it right here, OK?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dearborn, Michigan – 7 March 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadine Daoud, Helping Handzzz founder:
“I started this mission in 2017 during Ramadan, which is our holy month. And this is us Muslims — we fast during this holy holiday. And it’s 30 days in the month. And our mission is to just give back to the community and help those that need help.”
8. Various of The Helping Handzzz Foundation Vice President Daoud Wehbi praying following the iftar
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Daoud Wehbi, Helping Handzzz vice president:
“It’s not just a ‘no food, no drink’ time. It’s a lot about growing and coming together as a community and bettering ourselves and bettering each other.”
10. Various of the iftar and its aftermath
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadine Daoud, Helping Handzzz founder:
“Every family cooks a lot of food to end the night when you’re breaking your fast. And a lot of food gets left over. And we noticed that a lot of this food was just getting stored in the fridge and forgotten about the next day, because not everyone wants to eat what was left the day before that was fresh and good. So, what I decided to do was instead of sticking it in the fridge and forgetting about it or throwing it in the trash, I said, ‘Let me take it. I always see people on the corners. Let me help out and give it to them instead with a drink and a nice treat on the side.’ So, that’s what we did.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit – 7 March 2025
12. Hachem approaches a person without housing
13. Helping Handzzz founder Nadine Daoud and a fellow volunteer cross the street to make a delivery of food and water
14. Various of food deliveries
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dearborn, Michigan – 7 March 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hussein Sareini, Helping Handzzz board member:
“It’s all about appreciating what you have and trying to help out anyone in need or just doing good — putting good out into the world.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Detroit – 7 March 2025
16. UPSOUND A homeless shelter official thanks and applauds the Helping Handzzz volunteers for their donation
STORYLINE:
In what has become a Ramadan tradition, a group of volunteers in Dearborn, Michigan, gathers excess food prepared for the nightly fast-breaking iftar meal and distributes it to those in need in neighboring Detroit.
“OK,” came the response.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/78343572ae724df091b244df876c6bef
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in March 27, 2025, 6:04 am.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
