AAFSC is Collaborating with Epicenter NYC for Ramadan 2023

Ramadan Mubarak! AAFSC would like to wish our community members observing a healthy and blessed Ramadan! For our staff, clients, and community, Ramadan is a month of self-reflection, fasting, charity (sadaqah), and community spirit. During the month of Ramdan, AAFSC is excited to be collaborating with Epicenter NYC to raise awareness about the meaning of Ramadan, open a community conversation about misconceptions felt by those observing, and highlight some incredible local restaurant owners and businesses in the heart of NYC’s immigrant neighborhoods.

A lot of people think Ramadan is sort of like intermittent fasting but it is not. Ramadan is not just fasting for the body. You are detoxing both your soul and your body.

Mirum Zafar, AAFSC Senior Community Outreach & Enrollment Coordinator

Here are a few ways you can learn more about Ramadan:

Read the full Epicenter NYC interview “More than a fast: What Ramadan truly means”, with AAFSC staff members Mirum and Seeran
Listen to the podcast episode, “Ramadan is much more than a fast from sunrise to sunset”, featuring AAFSC and Imam Fadhel Alahlani of the Imam-Al Khoei Islamic Center of New York
Follow @AAFSC and @Epicenter_NYC on social media for more stories from our community, small business highlights, and opportunities to get involved in Ramadan festivities across NYC

More than a fast: What Ramadan truly means