Volunteerism in the Isma’ili community runs strong for the upcoming 13th annual Walk at Millennium Park.
Ethan Gillani is selling t-shirts today at the Glenview Isma’ili Center where he attends services. The t-shirts are white with an outline of the Al-Azhar Park in Cairo that was developed by a segment of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and opened to the public in 2005. The kids that buy the t-shirts will go home and color them with washable markers, decorating the shirts with other AKDN projects they’ve learned about. They will all wear them on the same day: September 18, the day of the 13th annual Chicago Partnership Walk.
Gillani, a junior at Northwestern University, has been helping out with the Walk as a volunteer in some capacity or another since the first Partnership Walk in Chicago in 1998. In fact, most of the Chicagoland Isma’ili community has been involved with the Walk since then.
via Glenview Isma’ili Muslim Community Prepares for Partnership Walk – Glenview, IL Patch.
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