ACID violence - Islamic Help & Pearl Daisy

Acid Violence


This is a post that I have written to encourage my UK readers (ladies only) to come along and support this charity event in Birmingham or London to raise awareness and funds for acid burns victims, obviously my international readers can do their bit by making donations to support this cause.  

It really touched me, infact I was in tears when I watched this video,  afterwards I sat there thinking that I can sometimes moan about the odd spot or lack of clarity on my face when there are women even in this day and age who have gone through this torture, women who dont even recognise themselves when they look in the mirror, and what is more shocking is that is usually caused by someone they know. It is truly horrific I am at loss with words so I wanted to share it with everyone and hope that you will all try and help as much as you can.

To give you a little background The Smiles Better campaign has been formed by Islamic Help a UK based charity to improve the lives of acid attack survivors. Islamic Help has been providing specialist medical and surgical support to acid burns victims since 2005. If anyone has seen a burns victim they will realise that facial burns have major visual impact on victims and anybody who sees them, burns around other parts of the body constrict muscles, thereby severely restricting movement of the head, arms and legs, so you can imagine the pain and horror that the burns cause the victims.

The surgery that Islamic Help has been providing over the past years (led by world renowned surgeon Dr Muhammad Ali Jawad) has had a significant impact on survivors, enabling enhanced facial appearance, free and unrestricted movement of the limbs and most importantly reigniting the confidence to live in the community again.

Pearl Daisy has teamed up with Islamic Relief to organise this event, if you have never heard of Pearl Daisy ….where have you been ladies? Pearl Daisy is the brainchild of sister Amena or Amenakin as she is known on YouTube, she is the hijab tutorial guru from YouTube who started out doing the odd tutorial after wearing hijab, to now running a super successful online store supplying hijab and accessories to ladies all over the world, all whilst  balancing motherhood to two young children. She is a fantastic role model for the young and old muslimah’s wearing hijab or interested in hijab. She is truly an  inspirational women showing that being a “Hijabi” as we are commonly known these days does not hold you back in anyway Alhamdulillah.

I will let Amena say the rest, please watch this video and tell me how anyone could not be moved?

Islamic Help

Pearl Daisy