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Mission: To inform and educate all the residents of the united states the truth about islam and its core principles and to counter the negative media information that is being disseminated about islam and to produce, develop, acquire, and distribute any literature to explain the truth about islam, on any media including books, pamphlets, cds, etc.
Programs: Furqaan academy bolingbrook is in 7th year. We have added higher grades this year. Now we have up to 11th grade. Our students fared well and won many prizes and trophies in various competitions at local and state level. This is the first full school year without our texas school. We are in the process of getting the full recognition from il state authorities. Also we are trying to get free school buses for our students.
to date we have printed 675,000 copies of the english translation. We distributed a big chunk out of this as free and at subsidized price. Our door to door distribution total stood at about 260,000 copies as we moved more to distribute copies through masaajid and other dawah programs. We exercised higher emphasize on free distribution of our translation, books and flyers on islam, and our translation to various hospitals, hotels and prisons this year. We have reorganized our quran distribution activities with the new name, "furqaan project", and we are in the process changing our process from manual distribution to distribution through usps. This process will enhance our distribution capacity, we will able to distribute anywhere in the us form our bolingbrook il facility.
we have few other minor projects like, quranic education to muslim adults, we are providing family counselling and counselling based on the quran and prophetic sayings, we also run a mosque in south side of chicago for local muslims. Our project to recycle the sacred text appropriately with help of a local recycling company is also running well and gaining popularity.