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Welcome to Kindness and Care Beyond Borders, Inc. {KCBB}!

April - May 2021
RAMADHAN MUBARAK GREETINGS TO YOU AND YOURS!

Dear Caring Friends, Brothers, Sisters, and Loyal Supporters of KCBB, Inc. -
As-Salaamu Alaikum (May Peace, Safety, and Security Be With You and Yours),

In The Holy Quran, Allah Almighty says: "...and they question you (Prophet Muhammad) regarding orphans. Say, improving their condition (in life) is good (serving and treating them well)...." [Surah/Chapter 2 Verse 220]

First, allow me, Brother Salahuddeen Abdul Kareem, and my wife, Sister Irda Nurwahyuni wish each and every friend and supporter of Kindness and Care Beyond Borders, Inc. the best of health, safety, and security especially during this global health crisis (Covid-19). We want to thank every person - near and far - who has helped make KCBB's orphan support mission the past ten years (2011 - 2021) a major success. The children and their adult caretakers have asked us to convey their love and thanks to you for caring about their welfare, especially during this Covid-19 global pandemic.

Second, since 2011, our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization has provided spiritual, emotional, material, and financial support directly to the orphan community, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco. Thanks to generous, tax-exempt donations KCBB has received from caring relatives, colleagues, friends, and general supporters like many of you we have helped hundreds of children/orphans and their humble caretakers. We are grateful to have a growing number of KCBB supporters and friends who are unknown to us. Their donations have made life much better for the children we serve. They, our friends and supporters, are the true heroes and heroines of our humble mission and work. We are grateful and humbled by their kindness and care.  Kindly include them in your prayers.

Since 2011, KCBB's staff has visited more than 25 orphanages in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Morocco. We've also provided indirect financial support to orphan and poor-family communities in ten additional countries: Afghanistan, America, Bangladesh, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen. Our organization applauds, recognizes, and appreciates the selfless humanitarian work of other nonprofit organizations who provide services and support to the international orphan community. We consider them our "good-will, orphan-assistance brothers and sisters" who are trying their best to make life a little better for our marginalized brothers and sisters around the world.

As you well know, it takes an international effort to meet the orphan community's needs. There are currently more than 153 million orphans worldwide according to Worldwide Orphan Statistics (www.sos-usa.org). If we, the broader community fail to help the children - innocent orphans - who will? We must consider helping - serving - the orphan community as a collective duty and responsibility. Who can they turn to if not to us - you and me? Who is going to make sure they have food, water, clothing, shelter, education, medicine and more if not you and me? We are actually doing ourselves an honor by serving them. There is nothing equal to caring for an orphan child.

Kindly note some of KCBB's major accomplishments between 2011 through 2020:

1. Sponsored, planned, organized, and managed the First Annual Manado, Indonesia Orphan Community's Field and Fun Day (July 2018). The Second Annual Field and Fun Day was held July 7, 2019. Seven orphanages and more than 150 children and adults participated in the fun-filled day (July 5, 2018). In July 2019, ten different orphanages participated bringing together more than 200 children, their caretakers, and community volunteers. It was the first time multiple orphanages in Manado, Indonesia have come together for single event in history.
2.  Paid full college/higher education tuition and fees for five orphan girls and two boys (seven young adults). One of them will receive his bachelor's degree diploma in June (2020).
3. Provided funding to cover all public transportation costs to and from college for seven orphans.
4. Paid labor and material/supplies costs to renovate and/or replace: a dormitory roof and doors; bedroom walls; floor resurfacing; a concrete staircase and wall; and the remodeling of an orphanage kitchen. We hope to help one building (dormitory) repair a leaking roof as soon as we get more information regarding the extend of the damage along with the material and labor cost.
5. Paid the full cost for (iftaar food and drink at multiple orphanages) during the holy month of Ramadhan and other special occasions (2011 through 2019).
6. Visited two orphanages in addition to visiting a Myanmar Rohingya Muslim refugee camp in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2016. The situation there was very painful and bleak. KCBB made a donation to the orphanages and to a number of Rohingya Muslim refugees while there.
7. Provided financial assistance to five elderly widows and those within their care (2015-2019).
8. Provided financial assistance to a father of five children who's been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
9. Encouraged orphans to consider enrolling in nursing school and other professional training institutes. KCBB offered to fund all tuition and fee costs for interested and qualified orphans providing it has enough money to cover the cost of enrolling in a nursing school.
10. Replaced and had installed large underground septic tanks in two orphanages.
11. Provided money for school supplies, clothing, and shoes for more than 1000 orphans in multiple orphanages (2011 - 2019).
12. Provided funding for at least 24 new bed mattresses and sheets at multiple orphanages.
13. Helped finance the cost of a desperately-needed motor bike (scooter for staff use) for one orphanage in Manado, Indonesia (Darus Saadah).
14. Provided major funding to help construct a second floor with bedrooms and a multi-purpose room at one Manado, Orphanage (2018 and 2019 atAn Nur Orphanage).
15. Provided a large donation to Az Zikri Orphanage to help rebuild a burned building that served as home/headquarters for the orphan community (2018, 2019).
16. Paid/Purchased school uniforms and clothing for more than 30 orphans (girls and boys) this summer (2019).

This humble list of KCBB accomplishments is just a small example of what our organization has shared with the orphan community. Our next major goal is to establish a home/office in Indonesia or Malaysia. The projected cost is between $80,000.00 and $100,000.00, Hopefully. a wealthy contributor or friendly organization will donate this amount to KCBB. This will allow KCBB to purchase and operate a local office/residence; purchase appropriate furniture and instructional equipment that will be used on behalf of the organization's mission and visiting orphans; allow orphans to make periodic visits to the office/residence to further build their sense of family-life with KCBB support staff members. Please make a sizable donation exclusively for this purpose. Since 2011, traveling back and forth to Southeast Asia during summer months, my wife and I have spent more than $70,000.00 (international and domestic flights; hotels; ground transportation; food; clothing; personal donations; and more). It's been a true honor and pleasure doing whatever we can to help our brothers and sisters. However, we do need and appreciate any and all additional financial support to offset our personal expenses. While working as teachers in a very small private school, our ten-month salary is very modest. We are spending as much as possible to make our orphan-support mission successful on behalf of the children. We need and hope to do more for the children providing we receive greater donations from our friends and supporters, like you. Please help if you can. Remember: Your contribution is tax-deductible.

WHAT'S KCBB'S GOAL AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS (2021 - 2026):

1) KCBB, Inc. hopes to continue its orphan-support mission - directly on the ground - in Southeast Asia. We are currently working with a trusted Indonesian friend who will serve as KCBB's contact-agent in select Indonesian cities. We hope to expand our work to include other orphanages and deprived communities in Indonesia and Malaysia.
2) KCBB wants to send more orphans to college and other higher education institutes. We hope to broaden our educational and training opportunities into multiple career-shaping activities.
3) KCBB wants to directly involve youth volunteers in its overseas work. We want young adults to travel with staff members to and from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other countries to see and feel what life is like in the international orphan community. Supporting the orphan community is something that needs long-term commitment and dedication. To help the children, we need caring people from all walks of life to give whatever they have to make life better for the children; our brother and sister friends throughout the world.
4) KCBB wants to raise $500,000.00 in order to build, establish, and manage its own orphanage in Southeast Asia. We hope to utilize every resource - human and material - available that might empower the orphan community. It's our goal to help them become self-sufficient and self-actualizing.

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Kindness and Care Beyond Borders, Inc. {KCBB} is based in Germantown, Maryland. The President and Executive Director, Salahuddeen Abdul Kareem, has more than 40 years experience interacting with children in multiple settings. Having worked as teacher, assistant principal, principal, board member, and parents' representative in American private and public schools for more than 40 years, he has dedicated his life to helping children grow and develop while encouraging them to explore and pursue their life goals. He seeks the same for the fast-growing orphan community around the world. Please help KCBB make life better for as many innocent children as possible. The orphan community has grown and continues to grow around the world. (currently there are more than 153 million orphans around the world). Together, we can make life a little better for them. Come join us and share in the joy of helping young people grow into healthy, well-mannered, well-educated, contributing adults.

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Kindness and Care Beyond Borders, Inc., orphan support contributions have reached the following ten countries: Afghanistan, America, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen. More than 1000 orphans and poor children have received material and financial support from KCBB since 2011. We have so many wonderful people to thank for their support. However, with that said, there is much more that needs to be done. We need your tax-deductible contributions to help KCBB help the orphan community. We really need to open an multi-complex residence-office in Southeast Asia to better organize and coordinate our work. Will you help?

The Prophet of Allah, Muhammad (pbuh&h) said: "See knowledge from the cradle to the grave."

Dear Special Friends of KCBB:

This is Br. Jefri Rindengan who graduated from college this summer (2020). He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Shariah Economics. My wife and I met Jefri nearly six years ago. He was in high school at the time. After graduating from high school, our organization gladly paid for Jefri's college enrollment, registration fees, and transportation from his orphan home to the college campus. Unfortunately, he hasn't been able to secure employment due to the virus pandemic. We hope and pray that he will gain employment and continue serving the orphan community where he continues to live.

"Mr. Salahuddeen and Ms. Irda first visited our orphanage (Darul-Istiqaamah) in 2015 (June and July). There are more than 100 girls in our orphanage-community. We were in desperate need of school uniforms and more. Thankfully, they were able to purchase four new sewing machines for our orphanage. An adult community member will teach some of us how to sew so that we can make our own uniforms and much more. If we didn't receive these sewing machine gifts from KCBB, we would continue wearing school uniforms and clothing that are too small and outworn. We are more than thankful for this gift! We can't thank KCBB enough for their kindness and care."

Whenever my wife, Sr. Irda, is with the children it's fun time! It's always time to forget the sadness and loneliness surrounding orphan-life at least for a while. Sr. Irda is a "huge hit" with the children - both girls and boys. She has a way of turning sadness into joy and happiness, no matter what child she meets during our orphanage visits. This little Malaysian boy lost both parents in a car crash in 2014 (please pray for them and him). Fortunately, he has an orphanage-home in a suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian orphanage. We hope to see him in 2020, God-willing, once and after the virus pandemic is over.

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