The Social Service Wing of the Jamaat coordinates with various NGOs in India under the umbrella of the Human Welfare Trust like the Ideal Relief Wing, Islamic Relief Committee and Tamil Nadu Relief Committee. The IRW was an active participant in the rescue efforts during the Kashmir earthquake spending almost $200,000 for the relief work and also played important roles in the relief efforts in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The TNRC built 38 houses for victims of the Asian tsunami in Tamil Nadu at a total cost of Rs 12.5 million. It also built 160 permanent houses at Nagore, Pudupattinam and Kottakuppam and provided livelihood assistance to hundreds of families in those areas.
Vision 2026
Vision 2026 The Jamaat has also campaigned to create educational awakening and promote human rights among the general public and the Muslim community in particular. In 2006, it launched a 10-year, INR 55 billion action plan named "Vision 2016" to create educational, health and housing facilities to improve the situation of poor Muslims in India. Its first phase is focused on 58 backward districts in India where it plans to establish health care centres, schools, vocational training centres, small-scale industries and low-cost housing and provide soft loans for small-scale trade and other ventures. ''Vision 2026', is an ambitious plan to bring about transformation on the social landscape of the country. The plan envisages the establishment of multifarious institutions across the country, with a strong human resource of committed volunteers and recognised community leaders. It serves the purpose of humanity and the Almighty as well. It is dedicated to going beyond charity by enabling the people to their fullest of extent. Its True North lies in making a society having peace, prosperity and justice for all. It calls for a society with all equality for the maximum of the masses at large. It enables the have nots to access the resources for a total change in their lives and hence promotes the country to step into a new world. It helps people meet their social and spiritual needs by their own efforts. It strives to build trust and relationship with the needy people whose prosperity and security are ever at stake. The program intervenes the needs of the day when one-thirds of country's population is hard to meet the basic amenities for its servility. It is all about a total upliftment of the Indian society with a view to vertical mobility of every individual and group of people. 'Vision 2016' has an estimated budget of Rs. 660 crore, to be pooled from philanthropists and funding agencies. Up thrust areas of the program are Education, Healthcare, Micro Finance and Women Empowerment. Target beneficiaries are defined by Sachar Committee Report, i.e. Indian minorities. But focus goes to minorities residing in northern half of the country i.e. from Assam to Gujarat. The Program is divided into different phases, i.e. Phase-1 – till March 2011 and Phase-2 – till March 2015 and so on. The Phase-1 costing Indian Rupees. 388 million, proposes funds and opts for regular check and balance policy to ensure the best possible utilisation of the released funds.
