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Old 12-16-2011, 10:59 PM   #1
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Giving to the fund

I heard Bahaulah was all about helping the needy.
Does any of the money you donate at the feast go to helping the hungry?

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Old 12-17-2011, 08:24 AM   #2
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I heard Bahaulah was all about helping the needy.
Does any of the money you donate at the feast go to helping the hungry?
Each Feast the friends contribute.. They can designate where it goes to...

Our community supports a scholarship fund for a Continuation school to help deserving students. Being a small community we do what we can.

When Baha'is contribute to Huquq some of the proceeds are charitable:

Huqúqu'lláh is said to enable the individual to “purify one’s riches and earthly possessions,” insuring the collection of sufficient funds “that the general Treasury is strengthened,” which makes it possible “to promote the interests of the Cause throughout the Bahá’í world,” and eventually provide for “the relief of the poor, the disabled, the needy, and the orphans,” and other philanthropical purposes. (wikipedia)

The Universal House of Justice can use the proceeds of Huquq also for it's purposes:

The general functions of the Universal Houses of Justice, as stated by Bahá'u'lláh include to promulgate the cause of God, to preserve the law, to administer social affairs, to educate the people's souls, to guarantee the education of children, to make the world prosperous, and to care of the elderly and the ill who are in poverty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Khan

There are also social developement projects in various parts of the world:

http://www.bahai.org/dir/social_action/sed

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