Malaysia’s PPZ-MAIWP Hopes to Collect USD 192 Million from 480,000 Zakat Payers by End-2021

The Zakat Collection Centre of the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council (PPZ-MAIWP) in Malaysia intends to raise MYR 800 million (USD 192 million) from 480,000 Zakat payers by the end of 2021 to support underprivileged Asnaf families.

Why it Matters?

Abdul Hakim Amir Osman, Acting Chief Executive Officer of PPZ-MAIWP, remarked that this is because of the increase of Zakat recipients to 27,000 families in 2021 from about 20,000 since the COVID-19 pandemic affected Malaysia.

Details

From early January to September 2021, MAIWP distributed a total of MYR 555 million (USD 133 million) to Asnaf households, an increase of 8% over the previous year, by way of several initiatives to aid the Asnaf community with housing...