(ARAB NEWS) ATLANTA: Food-delivery company DoorDash is partnering with a major US Muslim charity to deliver food packages to those in need nationwide.
The Chicago-based Zakat Foundation of America has forged the partnership with DoorDash during Ramadan, when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.
The “Feel the Hunger to Do Good” campaign is using the spirit of the holy month, when fasting Muslims are urged to care for and support those who are less fortunate.
The partnership is the first of its kind between a major US corporation and a Muslim humanitarian organization dedicated to helping America’s poor and hungry.
“The COVID-19 pandemic showed the urgent need to feed the poor,” Khalil Demir, the foundation’s executive director, told Arab News.
“We commend DoorDash for implementing its social corporate responsibility to help the poor, and urge other companies to do the same,” he added.
“We feel we’re the best partner to help them do just that, because it’s already our mission to feed poor people across this country.”
Demir said his organization has the logistics and trained staff to alleviate human suffering resulting from shortages of food or inability to obtain it.
