Causes: Emergency Assistance, Employment Preparation & Procurement, Food, Food Programs, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, Job Training
Mission: Our mission is to facilitate change and advance the lives of marginalized women and children by enabling them to meet essential needs common to all humankind.
Results: Zaman’s story is one of vision-guided growth, beginning in 1996.Zaman CEO and founder, Najah Bazzy, encountered desperate poverty in metro Detroit while making house calls to refugees and immigrants as a registered nurse. Starting with family members and friends, Bazzy mobilized a grassroots network of donors willing to provide necessities to these marginalized families. This humble initiative grew steadily to become Zaman International. Today, Zaman has assisted more than 247,493 local families and nearly two-million individuals through its international work. In 2016, Zaman established the Hope for Humanity Center, a 40,000 square-foot building in Inkster. It is the organization’s headquarters and houses the crisis assistance center and resale store as well as the culinary arts, sewing, and literacy training hub. Hundreds of women have benefitted from its programs, moving further along the continuum toward self-reliance.
Target demographics: marginalized women and children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 34,395 people in southeast Michigan with 170,452 pounds of food and $69,695 worth of essential needs like clothing, furniture, and rent assistance
Geographic areas served: Southeast Michigan and around the world
Programs: food, clothing, and furniture distributionvocational training in culinary arts and sewingliteracy and English as a second language
Mission: Our mission is to facilitate change and advance the lives of marginalized women and children by enabling them to meet essential needs common to all humankind.
Results: Zaman’s story is one of vision-guided growth, beginning in 1996.Zaman CEO and founder, Najah Bazzy, encountered desperate poverty in metro Detroit while making house calls to refugees and immigrants as a registered nurse. Starting with family members and friends, Bazzy mobilized a grassroots network of donors willing to provide necessities to these marginalized families. This humble initiative grew steadily to become Zaman International. Today, Zaman has assisted more than 247,493 local families and nearly two-million individuals through its international work. In 2016, Zaman established the Hope for Humanity Center, a 40,000 square-foot building in Inkster. It is the organization’s headquarters and houses the crisis assistance center and resale store as well as the culinary arts, sewing, and literacy training hub. Hundreds of women have benefitted from its programs, moving further along the continuum toward self-reliance.
Target demographics: marginalized women and children
Direct beneficiaries per year: 34,395 people in southeast Michigan with 170,452 pounds of food and $69,695 worth of essential needs like clothing, furniture, and rent assistance
Geographic areas served: Southeast Michigan and around the world
Programs: food, clothing, and furniture distributionvocational training in culinary arts and sewingliteracy and English as a second language
26091 Trowbridge, Inkster, MI 48141
313-551-3994
Food
Inkster
