Manubar Welfare Society – UK has been instrumental in the development of the village of Manubar.
Due to desire and drive for a better future for themselves and their loved ones, few young men left for the United Kingdom. They landed in a place where the culture and the language were alien for them. Yet, their perseverance and determination to succeed in life, and make a bright future for themselves and others.
Inspired and set themselves for a great dreams, and whilst grinding in doing laborious shift work in cottons mills of Lancashire. The living condition were such that up to ten young men shared a small terrace house.
Wage was meagre survival provisions and life was hard. Despite the struggle, they kept going, not just for themselves but for others too.
These young men gathered on Sunday afternoon on 05 July 1964 in small terrace house in Lancashire and set out to do something immigrant dreamt of at the time, and a birth of Manubar Welfare Society – UK
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They established ambitious values and goals, which over the years, they stayed loyal to. Their sincerity and dedication to each other and the Almighty Allah rewarded them by granting unimaginable will power.
They succeeded in laying a strong foundation not just in the United Kingdom…. But back home, they made Manubar a role model in the state of Gujarat and one to envy.
Manubar Welfare Society – UK pioneered the beginning of building a long list of village infrastructure.
This included secular and religious education, inner road and drainage systems, sanitation, water filtration facility and drinking water for every household are just the few of many many more.
Starting with the new Village Madrasa, TOTAL donation collected for Madrasa construction: £617.17schillings, this is when average U.K. wage was £1000 per year. Average home in UK was £2000 and, in the North, it would be in few hundreds pounds.
Established village welfare system where regular financial support given to widows, support for wedding expenses to poor bride and groom, support for medical care to poor, for terminally ill and cost towards a surgery. Albeit, the importance was given to widows and to empower youth from the poor families to be self-sufficient by way of earning a wage or establishing a small business.
Library and village medical centre, Masjid renovation, High School construction, Shopping centres, Medical equipment including an ambulance service etc.
Village education remained the priority. Hence, primary and secondary institutions were built in the village and various initiates were established such as reward ceremony to inspire students to perform well.
Loans to society members, sent funds to poor, rewarded students who achieved 60% or in S.S.C. (GCSCS) exams, supported Yuvak Mandal and wage to the madrasa headteacher. There are two early receivers of such rewards namely Ismail Nabipurwala and Abdulhaq Adam Maulvi.
Installation of the water pump and water works, residence for Jamia Masjid Imaam Kazisaab, visiting families of deceased and society’s requests of financial supports.
Financial support given during the devastating earthquake on Monday, 23 March 1970 at 7.25am, where loss of a life and damage to many properties including the Jamia Masjid.
Sadly there were two early deaths of our Manubar youth, one on 29/08/1969 of Maulana Ibrahim Sakha and other one of Abdullah Adam Amdavadi on 04 March 1971, society was at the forefront in condoling and offering any support required to these grieving families.
Regular financial and accountability updates from Vividh Karyakarta committee, High School/Yuvak Mandal committee, Masjid-Madrasa committee and Village Panchayat.
Whilst appreciated the financial support every member of the Manubar living in the UK has given, the focus remained that the youth, who must show interest in the society’s activities and join to continue its success for future generations.
Manubar Welfare Society-UK was also an inspiration for other organisations such as The Manubar Youth Organisation, The Karmad Unity of Islam, The Valan Youth Organisation, The Dayadra Welfare Society, The Ikhar Young Blood Society, The Sansrod Young Muslim Welfare Society, The Kantharia Muslim United Association.
The funding regularly comes through Ramadan donation, this is due to the hard work of our working committee volunteers and well-wishers. Also, funding for individual projects is promptly met by our major donors and individual allocation.
Village refuse collection and donation of trackers and trailers, door to door bins and awareness programme.
Appeal to new generation to participate in the work of the organisation. The legacy our pioneers passed on needs to continue with youth born and bred in the UK are well capable of taking the baton. Their primary focus has been to establish Manubar as a model village, and rightfully this objective is achieved in every aspect of the village life since they have seen the state they left the village in 1960s. However, there are lots of initiative for our community in the UK and so the NEW phase of the organisation’s primary focus for our coming years will be to focus on inspiring the Manubar youth in the UK. This is the aim and objective of the current executive team.
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