… After receiving this message from his spiritual leader in Istanbul, Turkey, at the age of just 30, Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, immediately heeded the calling… and continues to do so to this day.
Palestine | Gift of the Givers Foundation. Gift of the Givers Intervenes in Palestine. Airstrikes in Gaza have resulted in the tragic loss of hundreds of civilian lives and the displacement of thousands of people fleeing to save their lives. The Palestinian people requested urgent assistance from the Gift of the Givers ...
Dr Imtiaz Sooliman was born in Potchefstroom, in the North West. He started his schooling in Potchefstroom, but moved to Sastri College in Durban in 1978. He qualified as a medical doctor at the then University of Natal Medical School in 1984.
They had to do something, Dr Imtiaz and Zohra Sooliman told each other. The medical doctor and his preschool- teacher wife got to work. They collected donations of food, clothing and other essential items to send to the South Asian country.
Ayesha Sooliman
Currently, Ayesha works with South Africa's relief organisation, Gift of the Givers (GOTG), a relationship that began 14 years ago, when she became a member of their rapid response team to the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, 2005.
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Sooliman says that the spiritual leader subsequently instructed him to form a spiritual organisation called “Gift of the Givers” in Turkish, and that he was to serve people who needed help with love, compassion and dignity – and expect nothing in return.
Amongst Dr Sooliman's numerous awards, he has received the President's Order of the Star of South Africa, an Excellence in Health Care Award from the South African Medical Association, the Presidential Award for assistance in the Pakistan Earthquake from President Pervez Musharraf, the Paul Harris Award – Rotary ...
Since 1993 the European Commission and the EU member-states combined have been by far the largest aid contributor to the Palestinians.
The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it. The PLO has complex, often contradictory attitudes to peace with Israel. Officially, the PLO accepted Israel's right to exist in peace, which was the first of the PLO's obligations under the Oslo Accords.
The continual conflict between Israel and Palestine regarding their inability to acknowledge the other's claims to territory has resulted in many years of violence and instability in the region. The area of land that has caused political conflict between Israel and Palestinian also affects international relations.
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In 2007, Imtiaz married a second wife, Ayesha, a nurse he met on a Gift of the Givers mission.
It works to unite people, with a common vision, to make a real and telling difference by serving mankind for the 'Greater Good' . Assistance is provided unconditionally; assisting the needy, irrespective of human or animal, race, religion, colour, class, political affiliation or geographic location.
Gift of the Gift founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman on Tuesday looked back on 27 years of humanitarian aid since founding the organisation on August 6, 1992. "It started in Istanbul in Turkey on August 6, 1992. It was a Thursday night at around 22:00," Sooliman recalls clearly.
Provision of Section 18A tax-deductable donation certificates; Earning of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Points; and. Payroll-giving, enabling staff of corporate organisations to make regular contributions, via their companies, to specific projects.
Our organisation's guiding principle is that 'best among people are those who serve mankind,' and this is the sentiment behind everything we do.
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