Lillah and charity

Q:

1. Is it ok to order a daig of rice with chicken and peas and give it as sadaqa?

2. Who deserves to eat this sadaqa?

Q: If I forgot my wallet at home when I went for jummah salah, can I pay twice the sadaqah on next week’s jummah to make up for the missed sadaqah?

Q: I gave sadaqah of a billy goat. But nobody was taking the meat of sadaqah. I gave the meat to many poor Hindu people. Is my sadaqah accepted by Allah or not?

Q: Is it permissible to give extra money to someone working for us at home, doing cleaning, ironing, etc, as hadiyah or it will be like a bribe to let him work better? What about the intention of compensation thinking we are paynig less than the amount of work he is doing?

Q: What is the ruling for taking food from food banks (that give food to anyone who comes? My family is not poor but can have a tight budget of halal income and my mom goes to food banks to get food because anyone can. Also, if someone takes food from a food bank without needing it, does the food become haram?

Also, the food banks get donations from halal meat places, and some of the packaging has company name and the halal symbol on it but some don't (because the separate them into plastic bags). The people at the food bank say that the one's that don't have labels on it also came from halal stores. Is it permissible to eat these?

Q: We purchased goods from Pakistan but will sell it in Kenya. So for sadaqah, where do we give for these goods?

Q: I donate some money to non Muslim orphanages. Will Allah accept it or get angry?

Q: In Islam, are we allowed to donate our hair to non-profit organizations that make wigs for victims of cancer?

Q: How can a poor person compete with a wealthy person in terms of good deeds as the wealthy are able to do so much more good deeds with their wealth? In fact, wealthy people can even receive rewards after they pass away due to Sadaqah Jariyah, but as for the poor, their rewards are very little.

Q: I used to have a maid to whom I used to give a certain amount as sadqa every month. But now she has left the job and is badmouthing me infront of everybody. I am very upset by this. Can I stop giving her sadqa and give the amount to some other needy person?