For the last nine years, the Memon community has been celebrating World Memon Day on April 10 to promote the community’s culture, embrace communal harmony and organise social welfare initiatives. The Memon community across the world will be celebrating World Memon Day through the weekend as Eid celebrations coincide with the community’s annual day on April 10.
The Memon community will carry out social works with donation drives amounting to crores of rupees across the globe. In order to carry forward this legacy Sakan e Sheza Trust celebrated the World Memon day on April 10th 2024.
The celebration included all the women from different Memon groups. This celebration included the cake cutting ceremony as well followed by dinner.The Memon community was founded in the 15th century by 700 families comprising around 6000 people in total.
The Memon community’s lineage is reportedly traced back to the Lohanas of Multan and Sindh. The name, ‘Memon’ is also thought to have been derived from the Arabic word, ‘Mu’min’ which means believer.The Memons have their origins in the small towns and villages of Kutch, Gujarat and Kathiawad regions of pre-independent India. After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, a large number of Memons migrated to Pakistan.
