A Preston mosque has been thanked for its continued efforts to raise money for a local cancer charity.
Members of Preston’s Masjid-e-Salaam Mosque in Watling Street Road, Fulwood, have gifted £2,000 to Rosemere Cancer Foundation.
This latest donation takes the total raised by Masjid-e-Salaam Mosque members for Rosemere Cancer Foundation to £7,000.
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Since 2015, the charity has received £100,000 from Preston Muslim Society, which is a collective of all Preston’s mosques.
Mosque trustee Farouk Assenjee presented the donation on behalf of the management team to Dan Hill, Chief Officer of Rosemere Cancer Foundation and Head of Charities for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Mohammed Munavvar with the Masjid-e-Salaam Mosque’s donation for
Rosemere Cancer Foundation
Royal Preston Hospital consultant respiratory physician and interventional pulmonologist Professor Mohammed Munavvar, also attended the presentation.
Professor Munavvar, who was in charge of the hospital’s Covid wards throughout the pandemic, has received funding from Rosemere Cancer Foundation for cutting edge equipment to help in the early detection of lung cancer.
Dan Hill said: “Thank you to everyone who is part of the Masjid-e-Salaam community for this wonderful donation and to Preston’s Muslim community as a whole for its excellent support over the last decade.”
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