Emirates Red Crescent is the largest voluntary association in the United Arab Emirates. It is not only involved in health care, but acts in 17 countries around the world, as well as in its statelets, with projects for orphans, scholarships and construction.
Anyone can decide to make a donation and participate in the many initiatives of the Arab "Red Crescent".
Among the possibilities that the voluntary organization has set up, there is one that has taken root very well in Kenya: you can donate a certain amount of money to build a small prefabricated mosque that will be dedicated to the name indicated by the sponsors, which may be the person himself, a deceased loved one or someone to whom you are devoted. In a short time, almost 4000 mosques have sprung up and they can be found in every single village, especially on the coast, which has the highest density of Muslims in the country, and in the north-eastern regions towards Somalia.
They are serial constructions, all the same, with the same design and the same color, light brown.
No minaret, but loudspeakers that broadcast the adhan (the call to prayer) five times during the day, starting at 5 am.
It is not known to what extent there was a need for this kind of "voluntary" work, certainly many of Allah's faithful who live in remote villages before the arrival of these pious souls (can it be said in Arabic? Certainly not angels...) will say that before they had to walk many kilometers before reaching the place of prayer. Now these cubbies have come along that make it easier.
Above all, Islamization in East Africa.
But it is not only these "turnkey" mosques that draw attention to a country in which the Islamic religion, even if moderate like that of Saudi Arabia, Oman and the Emirates, is expanding and proselytizing. This is demonstrated by the many projects of places of worship under construction: not only mosques but study centers, madrassas, hospitals and other buildings connected to Islam.