INKSTER, Mich. – Zaman International founder and CEO, Najah Bazzy, has been selected as a 2019 top 10 CNN hero for her charitable work throughout the years.
The non-governmental organization has helped more than 250,000 women and children by providing basic necessities, education and job training, according to CNN.
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Zaman International operates out of the Hope For Humanity Center, a 40,500-square-foot facility in Inkster.
The charity focuses on woman with children living in poverty. Needy mothers and their children can shop at the Inkster based facility, which has become a one stop shop for basic essentials, for free.
In a video featured on CNN’s website Bazzy discusses how the charity was started. In 1996 while working as a nurse Bazzy went to visit an Iraqi refugee family at a home. She encountered a dying infant during the visit. There was no refrigerator or stove at the home and the baby was in a laundry basket.
The family could not afford a funeral for the baby after it died. That is when Bazzy stepped in and managed to raise enough money from the community to make sure the baby received a proper burial.
“I was so devastated by that. I decided that this wasn’t going to happen on my watch,” said Bazzy in the video.
You have until Dec. 3 to vote for the CNN Hero of the Year. To vote, click here.