In October 2022, the Deen Relief team visited Adana, southeastern Turkey, to assess the progress of our “Save Syrian Children with Cancer” campaign. During the visit, we met with countless children, most of them barely 10 years old, who had borne the cost of the ongoing war in Syria through physical and mental suffering. We saw babies battling with cancer, children permanently scarred in body and mind and parents making untold sacrifices to give their children every opportunity to survive. One thing that soon became apparent was the need to do more than simply provide food and shelter for the children and their families. Deen Relief was convinced that if we were going to make a lasting impact, we needed to go a step further.

The smile of an innocent child is one of the most endearing things to experience in life.

Imagine now, the smile of an innocent child who is suffering from cancer, has fled their home and become a refugee in a foreign land. Against that backdrop, the smile now becomes infinitely more priceless.

They say charity begins at home and so it was that the Homeless Project in Brighton was first conceived by local resident and Deen Relief founder, Shabek Ali, in the winter of 2010. Since then, Deen Relief has continued to regularly provide a lifeline of support for thousands of vulnerable people living rough on the streets of Brighton.