Building Homes - Help a Family with a Place to Live

The full-home option provides a structure with two living rooms, a dedicated kitchen and a private bathroom. Those rooms have practical uses including somewhere for a household to spend time, prepare food and wash with privacy. 

For a parent, privacy can be part of looking after a child or caring for a relative who is unwell. Space to cook and keep the family’s belongings also belongs to the daily work of maintaining a home. These are ordinary needs worth supporting in their own right. 

Building Homes supports families who need housing through One Ummah’s programme. The purpose is to provide a more settled place to live, recognising the care a household will bring to it. The family receiving a home will have its own routines and decisions to make about daily life. 

Choose A Full Home Or A Contribution 

The £2,500 option can fund a complete home through this appeal. If you would like to contribute towards the building work instead, you can choose £100 or £250. These smaller amounts support construction but they do not each pay for a whole house. 

There is also an option to give a custom amount. You can support Building Homes according to what you are able to afford, without waiting until you can fund the full cost yourself. Choose an amount that fits alongside your responsibilities at home. 

If you are giving together as a family or group, agree what you want to support and be clear about whether the gift is a contribution or a full home. That helps everyone taking part understand the purpose of the amount they are sharing. 

Donors funding one or more complete homes can have a custom name on a plaque and receive feedback images on completion. These details apply to the full-home option. Please ask our team if you need clarification before choosing your gift. 

A plaque may carry a name that is personally important to you, such as your own, that of someone you want to remember or maybe even a deceased friend or relative. If you are considering this option, check the details with our team when arranging a full-home donation. 

The images are a record of the building work your donation helped fund. If you share them to encourage others to give, keep the people who will use the home in mind and speak about their circumstances with care. 

Displacement can affect more than where someone sleeps. Leaving a familiar home can interrupt the routines around preparing meals, looking after children and keeping household belongings together. Having a place to live can help a family with those practical responsibilities. 

Through Building Homes, you can help a family with a place to live while they decide how to rebuild their daily routines. A parent may still have worries about food, work or their children’s needs. Help with housing can ease one part of what they are facing. 

Think about the care that goes into your own home, even on an uneventful day. Someone prepares food, looks after the space and makes sure there is somewhere for people to rest. Supporting another household’s accommodation is a way to recognise that familiar care in circumstances very different from your own. 

A place to live can give a household room for the routines it wants to establish. The family’s other needs continue alongside its housing.  

In the Hadeeth recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari 5353, the Prophet ﷺ described the great reward of caring for a widow or a poor person, likening that care to striving in Allah’s cause. Looking after people’s needs has a clear place in our Deen. 

You can support Building Homes with the intention of seeking Allah’s pleasure and hoping that the accommodation continues to benefit a household. In Sahih Muslim 1631, ongoing charity is among the deeds described as continuing after death. We ask Allah to accept this giving as Sadaqah Jariyah and place barakah in its benefit. 

Make Du’a for the family who will live in the home as well as for those contributing to its construction. Wanting a household to be safe and cared for is a sincere reason to give, whether you fund a full home or contribute a smaller amount. 

Support Building Homes Today 

One Ummah’s 100% donation policy explains how project donations support delivery, including implementation, while core running costs are funded separately. The policy applies to the amount received after external payment fees. 

Choose the Building Homes option you want to support and check the amount before confirming. For questions about the project, contact info@oneummah.org.uk or call 0300 111 3111. Give what you can to help a family with a place to live, and ask Allah to accept it from you. 

Help build a home.