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 The WF tries to stay in sync with the tech-savvy generations by proving them with apps to meet their religious obligations, the first of which launched was the Khums Calculator.
-The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by The Federation of Australasian Communities INC. and Council of All KSI Jamats ([[India Federation]]) in 2015.
+The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by [http://khojapedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Federation_of_Australasian_Communities_Inc_(FAC) '''The Federation of Australasian Communities INC''']. and Council of All KSI Jamats ([[India Federation]]) in 2015.
 '''Compiled by''' Dr [[Hasnain Walji]], former president of the World Federation of KSIMC

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 Once established, the World Federation faced two immediate, if ambitious, tasks. One was to raise the balance of funds from zero.  Along with Khums monies, donations were the primary source of revenue in the first term, with £90,000 received by 1979. Secondly, requests received from areas as far off as Vancouver, the Bahamas and Bangkok had to be met.  The first step was to assess each particular situation and to this effect, Maulana Syed Amir Husain Naqvi was appointed to tour the jamaats in America, Europe, Canada and the Far East and produce a detailed report of each area.  Thereafter, with limited funds, the unenviable job of prioritising requests began.
-On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the [[Gujarat Federation]] was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation, therefore, organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
+On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the [http://khojapedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Formation_of_Gujarat_Federation_-_Synopsis_of_Events '''Gujarat Federation'''] was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation, therefore, organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
 In attending to the cry of wretchedness in India, calls for spiritual upliftment elsewhere were not wholly abandoned.  In spite of limited resources and no regular income, donations were given to fund imambargha projects in the West.  More imminent in the West was the need to disseminate Islamic education to the youth.  Hence, the Islamic Education subcommittee sprouted soon after the WF was born, extending in breadth and scope to become the Islamic Education Board by 1980.  Its brief was to enhance Islamic learning in the west through the provision of Islamic literature, correspondence courses, training of aalims and teachers, reviewing of teaching techniques in madrassahs and the utilising of audio-visual aids.  While an extensive record of publications, audio-visual resources, madrassah tools and syllabi, Islamic courses and learning schemes can now be accredited to the IEB, the initial steps in this direction were boldly taken in the IEB’s formative years.

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 == The Formative Years: 1976 - 1985 ==
-Once established, the World Federation faced two immediate, if ambitious, tasks. One was to raise the balance of funds from zero.  Along with Khums monies, donations were the primary source of revenue in the first term, with £90 000 received by 1979. Secondly, requests received from areas as far off as Vancouver, the Bahamas and Bangkok had to be met.  The first step was to assess each particular situation and to this effect, Maulana Syed Amir Husain Naqvi was appointed to tour the jamaats in America, Europe, Canada and the Far East and produce a detailed report of each area.  Thereafter, with limited funds, the unenviable job of prioritising requests began.
+Once established, the World Federation faced two immediate, if ambitious, tasks. One was to raise the balance of funds from zero.  Along with Khums monies, donations were the primary source of revenue in the first term, with £90,000 received by 1979. Secondly, requests received from areas as far off as Vancouver, the Bahamas and Bangkok had to be met.  The first step was to assess each particular situation and to this effect, Maulana Syed Amir Husain Naqvi was appointed to tour the jamaats in America, Europe, Canada and the Far East and produce a detailed report of each area.  Thereafter, with limited funds, the unenviable job of prioritising requests began.
-On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the [[Gujarat Federation]] was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation therefore organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
+On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the [[Gujarat Federation]] was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation, therefore, organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
 In attending to the cry of wretchedness in India, calls for spiritual upliftment elsewhere were not wholly abandoned.  In spite of limited resources and no regular income, donations were given to fund imambargha projects in the West.  More imminent in the West was the need to disseminate Islamic education to the youth.  Hence, the Islamic Education subcommittee sprouted soon after the WF was born, extending in breadth and scope to become the Islamic Education Board by 1980.  Its brief was to enhance Islamic learning in the west through the provision of Islamic literature, correspondence courses, training of aalims and teachers, reviewing of teaching techniques in madrassahs and the utilising of audio-visual aids.  While an extensive record of publications, audio-visual resources, madrassah tools and syllabi, Islamic courses and learning schemes can now be accredited to the IEB, the initial steps in this direction were boldly taken in the IEB’s formative years.

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 Having spent a mere £10,000 in its first year, by 1996, the WF’s bill for communal welfare had risen to $43 million over 20 years.  Over two decades, the various boards and desks also had expanded and refined their roles. Moreover, the World Federation had extended the geographic scope of its services to areas as disparate as Kuala Lumpur, Tataristan (Russia), Guyana and Bosnia.
-Entering into middle-age, the IEB of the World Federation, stepped up its efforts of tabligh in these far-flung corners.  In 1992, during the Bosnian crisis, the WF had recognised the Bosnian need for a better understanding of Islam.  By 1993, the IEB had already published basic Islamic literature including a first-course in Islam and a Bosnian translation of the Holy Qur’an.   From 1997-2002, regular issues of ‘Muslimanski zivot’ provided bite-sized guidance.  A correspondence course on Islam was also set up to operate via the Bosnian desk, with 1200 students enrolled by 2000.  During this period also, as Albanian Muslims suffered persecution and war in nearby Kosovo, the WF not only provided relief aid but launched a tabligh programme based on the Bosnian template.  Under the IEB, 5 000 copies of an Albanian translation of the Qur’an, ‘The Roots of Religion’ and other basic works translated into Albanian were distributed.  On another continent, the World Federation in conjunction with the Bilal Muslim Mission of the Americas continued its tabligh work in Central and South America including the Caribbean Islands.  As the BMMA established madrassahs and mosques in Trinidad and Guyana and furthered Islamic awareness in the Solomon Islands and Columbia, the WF extended its assistance whenever required. As the IEB’s tabligh operation chartered new lands, it did not abandon the needs of its more established member jamaats.  In 1999, Marhum Mulla Asgher opened the Dar al Tabligh in New York, a pivotal step in the IEB’s tabligh work in North America. Similar to its counterpart in the UK, the Dar al Tabligh in New York was established to be a resource centre from which books, audio and videos and multimedia CDs could be distributed widely as well as retained for reference as part of a resource-rich library for the Muslim and wider public.  Six years on, the Dar al Tabligh organises seminars and courses, disseminates Islamic knowledge, and plays a leading role in Islamic research in North America.
+Entering into middle-age, the IEB of the World Federation, stepped up its efforts of tabligh in these far-flung corners.  In 1992, during the Bosnian crisis, the WF had recognised the Bosnian need for a better understanding of Islam.  By 1993, the IEB had already published basic Islamic literature including a first-course in Islam and a Bosnian translation of the Holy Qur’an.   From 1997-2002, regular issues of ‘Muslimanski zivot’ provided bite-sized guidance.  A correspondence course on Islam was also set up to operate via the Bosnian desk, with 1200 students enrolled by 2000.  During this period also, as Albanian Muslims suffered persecution and war in nearby Kosovo, the WF not only provided relief aid but launched a tabligh programme based on the Bosnian template.  Under the IEB, 5 000 copies of an Albanian translation of the Qur’an, ‘The Roots of Religion’ and other basic works translated into Albanian were distributed.  On another continent, the World Federation in conjunction with the Bilal Muslim Mission of the Americas continued its tabligh work in Central and South America including the Caribbean Islands.  As the BMMA established madrassahs and mosques in Trinidad and Guyana and furthered Islamic awareness in the Solomon Islands and Columbia, the WF extended its assistance whenever required. As the IEB’s tabligh operation chartered new lands, it did not abandon the needs of its more established member jamaats.  In 1999, Marhum [http://khojapedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mulla_Asgar_(Asghar_Ali_M.M_Jaffer) '''Mulla Asgher'''] opened the Dar al Tabligh in New York, a pivotal step in the IEB’s tabligh work in North America. Similar to its counterpart in the UK, the Dar al Tabligh in New York was established to be a resource centre from which books, audio and videos and multimedia CDs could be distributed widely as well as retained for reference as part of a resource-rich library for the Muslim and the wider public.  Six years on, the Dar al Tabligh organises seminars and courses, disseminates Islamic knowledge, and plays a leading role in Islamic research in North America.
 A library more universally accessible but content specific was also set up by the IEB. Launching the website, www.quran.org.uk, the aim was to provide a comprehensive Qur’an research base on line.  This website complements the Qur’an Library and Research Centre at Dar al-Tabligh in Harefield, a library with an impressive collection including more than 200 English books on the Qur’an, Iranian university theses’ on the Qur’an in Farsi, over a 1000 articles on the Qur’an in English, and Qur’an translations in over 30 languages.  Ever since its inception, the website is being updated and improved, the result being a continual rise in world-wide viewership. The IEB also advanced its tabligh efforts through other media resources. Radio programmes were launched by the IEB; they continue to be a reverberating success with listening audiences of approximately 70 000 people every morning.  Radio programmes can also be heard online via the IEB portal (ieb.world-federation.org). Furthermore, the IEB also obtained a slot on Humanity TV for airing of a religious series in Muharram. To coordinate and centralise these diverse educational programmes via television and radio, the IEB has established a Media and Radio team and a digital Media Centre.  The realisation of future objectives, including the securing of national and mainstream television slots, will reflect dynamic steps forward.

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 == The Formative Years: 1976 - 1985 ==
-Once established, the World Federation faced two immediate, if ambitious, tasks. One was to raise the balance of funds from zero.  Along with Khums monies, donations were the primary source of revenue in the first term, with £90 000 received by 1979. Secondly, requests received from areas as far off as Vancouver, the Bahamas and Bangkok had to be met.  The first step was to assess each particular situation and to this effect Maulana Syed Amir Husain Naqvi was appointed to tour the jamaats in America, Europe, Canada and the Far East and produce a detailed report of each area.  Thereafter, with limited funds, the unenviable job of prioritising requests began.
+Once established, the World Federation faced two immediate, if ambitious, tasks. One was to raise the balance of funds from zero.  Along with Khums monies, donations were the primary source of revenue in the first term, with £90 000 received by 1979. Secondly, requests received from areas as far off as Vancouver, the Bahamas and Bangkok had to be met.  The first step was to assess each particular situation and to this effect, Maulana Syed Amir Husain Naqvi was appointed to tour the jamaats in America, Europe, Canada and the Far East and produce a detailed report of each area.  Thereafter, with limited funds, the unenviable job of prioritising requests began.
-On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the Gujarat Federation was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation therefore organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
+On balance, the WF’s first two terms (1976-79, 1979-1982) were dedicated to alleviating the abject poverty of the East.  Removing disease, poverty and illiteracy within India was the pressing priority.  To work more effectively, the central body of the WF coordinated its activities with representative bodies on the ground.  In conjunction with the Masoomeen Trust of Bombay, housing complexes, madrassahs, masjids, imambarghas and medical treatment camps were funded and run.  After attempts to create an All-India Federation floundered, the [[Gujarat Federation]] was set up in 1979 with the unified objective to uplift the Shias of Kutch and Khatiawad.  Initial temporary relief in the form of handouts soon made way for capital schemes of investment in housing, education, agriculture and job creation.  Under its leadership, the Zainabiyya Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1981 to sponsor the poor to educate themselves out of dependence.  Sponsoring 9 children at the cost of 50 cents per child/day in 1981, the number of students rose to 610 by 1984.  The scheme now sponsors thousands of children in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. To counter poverty in its more insidious yet subtle form, the WF initiated ‘Samuh Lagna’ in 1978.   Weddings in a culture steeped in Indian tradition were a crippling burden on poor families and at hence, at times prevented marriage altogether.  The WF and Gujarat Federation therefore organised ‘Samuh Lagna’ – an event to host multiple weddings simultaneously at little cost to the wedding parties.  The success of this project from its inception is evident in the smooth running of as many as 80 weddings at a time during its early years.
 In attending to the cry of wretchedness in India, calls for spiritual upliftment elsewhere were not wholly abandoned.  In spite of limited resources and no regular income, donations were given to fund imambargha projects in the West.  More imminent in the West was the need to disseminate Islamic education to the youth.  Hence, the Islamic Education subcommittee sprouted soon after the WF was born, extending in breadth and scope to become the Islamic Education Board by 1980.  Its brief was to enhance Islamic learning in the west through the provision of Islamic literature, correspondence courses, training of aalims and teachers, reviewing of teaching techniques in madrassahs and the utilising of audio-visual aids.  While an extensive record of publications, audio-visual resources, madrassah tools and syllabi, Islamic courses and learning schemes can now be accredited to the IEB, the initial steps in this direction were boldly taken in the IEB’s formative years.
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 The year 2009 was a ‘annus horribilis’ for The World Federation. Errors in the election process of the election of the President had surfaced followed by the absence of the Electoral Commissioner at the beginning of the conference and his failure to submit his report to the 2009 Conference.  Thus the 2009 Conference was an unusual one because it was the first conference without a President Elect in place.  This anomaly had to be resolved and hours of deliberations took place.  The unity, rationale and the democracy within the organization prevailed and the Conference resolved that the tasks of the Electoral Commissioner to be absolved and recommended that the next Executive Council undertake a study into the past election process (2009) and report within a year to the Executive Council.  It also resolved that a constitutional conference to be convened in December 2010 in the UK to amend The WF presidential election method and processes.  The Conference then elected an Electoral commissioner to complete the term 2006-2009.  The election for the posts of the President, Vice President, Hon. Treasurer and Five elected Executive Councillors and the Electoral Commissioner then took place.
-The turbulent times continued within the community but once again the unity prevailed and it resolved to move forward in an organized way.  The Extraordinary Conference held in May 2010 after reviewing the elections of the term 2009-2012 determined that fresh elections be held after effecting any amendments necessary to The Constitution relating to the processes and conduct of elections.  At the same Conference, The Council of Gujrat resigned as a Regional Member of The World Federation.   In October 2010, The Federation of Khoja Shia Isna Asheri Jamaats of Pakistan (Pakistan Federation) became a Regional Member of The World Federation. The 2010 Constitutional Conference held in December amended the Standard Operating Procedure for Electing the President of The World Federation from being first to pass the post to an Electoral College system.  The revised SOP remains to be tested as there was only one nomination for the post of the president for the term 2011-2014. The turbulent times for the organization were over and it returned to even keel to serve the community in earnest. The aspirations of the Muballigheen Training Programme (MTP) were dented with costs overruns and lack of student registration due to its application rigidness and requirements. With the increase in political upheaval in Syria, the MTP was eventually laid to rest once the students enrolled, had completed their studies.
+The turbulent times continued within the community but once again the unity prevailed and it resolved to move forward in an organized way.  The Extraordinary Conference held in May 2010 after reviewing the elections of the term 2009-2012 determined that fresh elections be held after effecting any amendments necessary to The Constitution relating to the processes and conduct of elections.  At the same Conference, The Council of Gujrat resigned as a Regional Member of The World Federation.   In October 2010, The Federation of Khoja Shia Isna Asheri Jamaats of Pakistan ([[Pakistan Federation]]) became a Regional Member of The World Federation. The 2010 Constitutional Conference held in December amended the Standard Operating Procedure for Electing the President of The World Federation from being first to pass the post to an Electoral College system.  The revised SOP remains to be tested as there was only one nomination for the post of the president for the term 2011-2014. The turbulent times for the organization were over and it returned to even keel to serve the community in earnest. The aspirations of the Muballigheen Training Programme (MTP) were dented with costs overruns and lack of student registration due to its application rigidness and requirements. With the increase in political upheaval in Syria, the MTP was eventually laid to rest once the students enrolled, had completed their studies.
 The second decade of the 21st century saw the shrinking of the world to a global village through the expansion in social media. In addition, political upheavals, terrorism and extremism throughout the world spiralled out of control. The marginalization and target killings of followers of Muslims of Shia faith also escalated.  The intervention by foreign governments in the Middle Eastern countries in their quest for democracy resulted in destabilising the entire region.  It saw masses of refugees fleeing their countries by sea to reach the shores of Europe desperate for new beginnings. The WF sent volunteers and aids to help some refugees arriving in Greece.  The war and the persecution of Muslims of Shia faith in Yemen resulted in The WF at the request of Aden Jamaat in evacuating almost the entire Khoja community to Djibouti where they were registered and classified as ‘prime facie’ refugees under the UNHRC.  The WF ensured that their dignity was maintained by providing them with suitable accommodation and meals. Realising that Europe was dealing with the influx of refugees and there was almost no scope of Khoja refugees to be accepted even though of their skills and professions, The WF started the process of resettling the Khoja refugees in Djibouti to different African countries, India, Pakistan and Malaysia.  The process slow and steady but expensive is still going on.
-The noticeable erosion of faith based values spurred the organization in to launching of two separate special projects to reiterate one of its objectives i.e. ‘to promote the Shia Ithna-Asheri faith throughout the world’.  The first was the establishment of the state of art The Mulla Asgher Memorial Library and Resource Centre (MARC). Situated within the Jaffari Community Centre of Islamic Ithna Asheri Jamaat of Toronto, Canada, it is a beacon of tremendous Tableegh potential for our Community in North America. Its vision is ‘To be a premier state of the art Islamic resource centre in North America providing research and learning facilities to Muslims as well as non-Muslims’.  It opened its doors to wider public to view its exhibitions and use of its resource facilities thereby providing a platform for interfaith and intra-faith discussions. The second initiative was the establishment of Madrasah Centre of Excellence (MCE), a structure that was formed in 2011 to deliver and maintain the strategies for the Madrasah programme. The MCE’s focus is on how to attain harmony amongst Madaris and by coordinating the four work streams namely Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Learning Resources and Assessment & Evaluation.
+The noticeable erosion of faith based values spurred the organization in to launching of two separate special projects to reiterate one of its objectives i.e. ‘to promote the Shia Ithna-Asheri faith throughout the world’.  The first was the establishment of the state of art The Mulla Asgher Memorial Library and Resource Centre (MARC). Situated within the Jaffari Community Centre of Islamic Ithna Asheri Jamaat of Toronto, Canada, it is a beacon of tremendous Tableegh potential for our Community in North America. Its vision is ‘To be a premier state of the art Islamic resource centre in North America providing research and learning facilities to Muslims as well as non-Muslims’.  It opened its doors to the wider public to view its exhibitions and use of its resource facilities thereby providing a platform for interfaith and intra-faith discussions. The second initiative was the establishment of Madrasah Centre of Excellence (MCE), a structure that was formed in 2011 to deliver and maintain the strategies for the Madrasah programme. The MCE’s focus is on how to attain harmony amongst Madaris and by coordinating the four workstreams namely Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Learning Resources and Assessment & Evaluation.
 The Leadership Development Programme and the Capacity Building Programmes are now firmly embedded in Africa, Europe and North America and has transformed the lives of the participants both in their social and business environments.  The Executive Council’s decision to eradicate poverty through microfinance projects and housing continues to bring benefit to the community. The regional membership has started to implement the recommendations of the Women’s Needs Assessment, a Conference initiative.
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 The WF continues to provide its core services in Education, Health, Tableegh and Relief in a more professional and economic way.   The Madinah and Bab summer courses held annually have enjoyed resounding successes and are now one of the most sought after courses for the youths of the community.  The implementation of a state of art software by the Zainabiya Child Sponsorship Scheme (ZCSS) enables it to track each individual student’s progress under its scheme and when it is fully implemented and integrated it will allow the sponsors to view on-line the progress of its sponsored child/children. The Executive Council also launched an ambitious The World Federation Foundation Fund for investment income to meet the administrative costs.  Another aspiring project it launched was the Khoja Heritage and Khoja Wikipedia; together both eventually will chart out the history of Khoja diaspora from India to the rest of the world.  In addition, it is in the process of launching a Khoja Business and Professionals Directory.
-The WF tries to stay in sync with the tech savvy generations by proving them with apps to meet their religious obligations, the first of which launched was the Khums Calculator.
+The WF tries to stay in sync with the tech-savvy generations by proving them with apps to meet their religious obligations, the first of which launched was the Khums Calculator.
-The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by The Federation of Australasian Communities INC. and Council of All KSI Jamats (India Federation) in 2015.
+The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by The Federation of Australasian Communities INC. and Council of All KSI Jamats ([[India Federation]]) in 2015.
 '''Compiled by''' Dr [[Hasnain Walji]], former president of the World Federation of KSIMC

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	The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by The Federation of Australasian Communities INC. and Council of All KSI Jamats (India Federation) in 2015.		The WF now has Regional Members in six out seven geographical regions as defined in its Constitution following the successful application of Membership by The Federation of Australasian Communities INC. and Council of All KSI Jamats (India Federation) in 2015.
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		+	Compiled by Dr. Hasnein Walji, former president of the World Federation of KSIMC

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	== Origins ==		== Origins ==