As the Rohingya crisis started, Rabih and several volunteers travelled to Rohingya where they experienced it all firsthand. There they witnessed the Rohingya Muslims crossing the borders as refugees with little to no food and water, and this is when they started their first campaign. Rabih Chamma and the volunteers raised money to provide them with food and shelter.

The first children’s playground in Myanmar was built for the Rohingya refugees as well as mosques, water wells, and shelters. Whilst the Merciful Group team were aiding the Rohingya refugees they saw a huge need within the Bangladeshi Muslim community and started supporting locals by building houses, shelters and providing them with food packs.

From there they went on to establish Merciful Group as a non-for-profit organisation, to help our Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. They would evaluate what each deprived Muslim community needed and put together all they could as volunteers to provide food, water, shelter, and medical aid.
Merciful Group started working in Syria in 2018 with their first campaign being the Ghouta campaign. Merciful Group was one of the few charities that were able to deliver aid to Ghouta and surrounding areas. By the will of Allah, they have now built many orphanages and schools inside Syria in partnership with other charities such as UK based charity, Muslims in Need.

Merciful Group has provided aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey & Lebanon who have fled their country in search of hope. During Ramadan 2020, we provided daily hot meals to over 500 Syrian refugees in refugee camps in Turkey.