Annual Report 2015
Annual Report 2015
2Charity Week Annual Report
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Contents
Welcome 3
The Charity Week Teams 4
Participating Institutions 5
Resource Distribution 6
Expenditure & Resource Returns 7
Training our Teams 8
International Totals 10
Results & Breakdown 12
Publicity & Social Media 14
Where the Money Goes 18
Projects 19
Annual Dinners 23
Conclusion 24
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Welcome to the CW2015 Annual Report
Assalaamu alaikum,
Every year, we select a theme for Charity Week that allows us to keep things fresh whilst still adhering to our core vision. This year we chose “books” as our theme and as the months went by, we realised more and more why that was an excellent choice.
Books play a central part in our lives. They provide information that we use in our studies. They hold stories that are passed down from one generation to the next. Books define cultures and civilisations. Holy books are central to most world faiths.
The report that you have before you is the book of Charity Week 2015. It shows the highs and lows during a year of great contrasts. It has exciting new chapters titled USA and Germany, but also more challenging ones highlighting areas that we need to improve on.
However, more important than all the details, the stories and the stats is the realisation that this project is slowly and surely moving us all towards the vision of unity. We pray that it will serve as a legacy for everyone involved and feature prominently in the most significant book of all - our book of deeds.
Till the day we are #AllOnTheSamePage
Your Charity Week Team
We’d like to tell you a story
A special thanks to all staff at Islamic Relief worldwide, Islamic Relief UK, Islamic Relief Germany, Islamic Relief USA & Reach Out To Asia
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The Charity Week Teams
There were upwards of two hundred incredible people working at international, national, regional
and institutional levels to deliver Charity Week last year. That’s not to count the 1000+ volunteers
who took part in the week itself!
International TeamMuhammad Wajid Akhter, Mariam Kadodia, Ahmed Shaikh, Usman Siddiqui, Daanyaal
Madarbukus, Bechir Bourkiza, Saima Siddiqui, Nabila Zaman, Ghausia Hussain, Sara Malik, Aisha
Mohamed
UK National TeamAhthsham Ashraf, Talha Ansari, Ayisha
Hameed, Saba Malik, Anum Mahmood, Jawad Sayani, Shabnam Osman, Akeel Ghaffar, Adrees Nazir, Saiam Ahmed, Sana Jasrai, Bilkis Akhter, Zoya Billoo,
Muhammad Tayyab, Sarah Rhammaz, Zeinab Edah-Tally, Naveed Khan, Abdul-Basit Ali, Noorjahan Islam, Zeshaan
Ahmed, Nabeel Ghaffar, Mehrun-Nisa Syed, Abdul Qawiyy, Afsara Ahmed
Canada National TeamAisha Khaja, Afifah Ali, Khalid Elmi, Hina Ahmed,
Loujaine Al Moallim, Nida Ahmed, Maria Ahmed, Muzna Azam, Mubashir Parkhani, Talha Tanveer, Farhad Nusrat, Nuzha Hafleen, Amina Shabeen, Mariyam Farooqi, Halla
Fahmi, Gulaid Egeh, Yasmine Abouzeeni, Line Jaber
Qatar National TeamSultana Jesmine, Ayat Abdel-Rahman, Aya Abdelaal, Fazail Ahmed, Doaa Awad, Abdullah Ahmed, Aisha
El Allam, Zahra Makki, Bushra Memon, Amal Haque, Manar Al-Nablousi, Abdel-Rahman Al Qatami,
Tasleem Tayyib, Mohamed Hafis, Mohammad El Allam, Sadaf Riaz, Hiba Shoukath, Fareeha Zakri,
Neihan Yaqoob, Safa Salim, Thana El-Sallabi, Deema Saeed, Omar Al Sharif, Ariba Ghani, Aya
Gaballa, Aysha Khan, Sana Arzoo, Lina Taha, Rabab Abdullah
Germany National TeamSolaiman Raha, Maryam Safi, Samim Faiz, Mogda Safi,
Sümeyye Cöktü, Mayra Choudhry, Bushra Malik, Kautar Benabbou, Belal Akbari
USA TeamIslam Otmani, Noreen Syed, Tasneem Kapadia, Inayah Zaheen, Aamir Shamsi, Faria Iqbal, Sarah Aburumuh, Maali Luqman, Fatima Omar, Tasneem Labib, Kainat
Hamid, Samira Ateeq, Sanam Zaidi, Khalida
Germany Cities TeamAbdulaleem Malik
Aeisha Malik
Belal Akbari
Blerina Nezeri
Dilara Sagir
Fethiye Özdemir
Kautar Benabbou
Khalid Rasul
Kübra Kiraz
Massih Mobarak
Rashed Popalzai
Vanessa Tatar
UK LondonAbeer Rizvi
Afra Jiwa
Ali Jaffery
Ali Sohail
Amer Qaiyum
Anam Jasrai
Arif Miah
Ayesha Habib
Habibah Yunus
Haider Manzar
Harun Khan
Irum Qureshi
Moushumi Alam
Naveed Khan
Nizamuddin Girach
Osaid Ather
Reema Akhter
Ruby Ramjan
Rukhsar Akhtar
Sabrina Jiwani
Sadiyah Mir
Saira Arshad
Salma Gabr
Shamsul Islam
Shirin Ahmed
Sumaya Khan
Tay-yibah Mohamed
Wafaa Muhidin
Yasir Ashraf
Yasmeen Mukadam
Zohaib Siddiqui
Zoheb Boodoo
UK MidlandsAbdulsalam Shahin
Abida Chowdhury
Abu Sayem Chowdhury
Arooj Khan
Chima Begum
Dayana Zahari
Fahima Aziz
Faisal Malik
Fatma Thakur
Inaayat Vindhani
Isma Ahmed
Mariya Khan
Mohammed Mutvalli
Ameen
Naju Shahid
Nawal Nawaf
Noorjahan Islam
Qasim Ashraf
Qasim Malik
Rabia Zulfiqar
Raeesah Sheikh
Rizwana Yakub
Shadiqul Amin
Shai Sheikh
Shaista Ibrahim
Sofina Johari
Yasmeen Khalid
Zaynab Ahmed
Zeyd Kohya
UK SouthAbdul Qawiyy
Anjumin Ahmed
Harun Mohamed
Husam Al-Jabbar
Ihtishaam Hussain
Mahdee Hussain
Muzammil Peerally
Nahya Nawaf
Saba Riaz
Saduf Riaz
Tahira Amin
Waqqas
UK Wales & WestAli Khan
Anisa Zia
Ashlee Abdul - Malik Ryan
Ilham Habib
Iman Awadh Alhadrami
Mumina Mader
Sofina Begum
Suddef Ali
Waleed Saleem Khan
Zarmeen Hussain
Zeshaan Ahmed
UK NorthAbdulBasit Ali
Ahmed Amin
Aisha Hussain
Ameer Khan
Aneesah Ali
Ehman Khan
Hamid Mehmood
Hamza Afzal
Khadija Amla
Leena Khan
Mohammed Yusuf
Nargis Akhter
Pamela Doug
Rukhsar Ali
Siddiqah Chowdhury
Siddiqah Kadodia
Tuba Nisar
Waleed Zulfiqar
UK ScotlandAamir Kayani
Adeeb Naasan
Ammar Khan
Amun Riaz
Danish Ashraf
Fabliha Hussain
Fahad Khan
Fariha Haque
Gael Robertson
Hajar Zaki
Junaid Ahmad
Nabeel Ghaffar
Najma Akhtar
Raheel Ashraf
Saqib Ahmed
Shailaa Kauser
Shavez Majid
Sofia Liaquat
Sundas Kamran
Sundas Minhas
Usman Minhas
Yasmin Mahmood
Zahra Ahmad
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Participating Institutions
UKScotlandAberdeen UniversityAbertay UniversityAl Maghrib Scotland Al MeezanAll Saints AcademyAuto House Tyre and Vehicle Repair SpecialistsAwaz FMBella PaniniBellahouston AcademyDiscover Islam ScotlandDundee UniversityEdinburgh UniversityEK WholesaleEKMCGlasgow Caledonian UniversityGlasgow Central MosqueGlasgow Sweet CentreHeriot-Watt UniversityIslamic Society of Britain (Glasgow Branch)Isyllabus UKJ’adore FunctionsJahangir Tandoori RestaurantJamal Property WorldJushiKobeeM House Solutions LtdMasjid AlhikmahMasjid KhizraMearns Castle High SchoolMinhal Al QuranMinuteman PressMuslim Youth LeagueNapier UniversityNotre Dame High SchoolQueen Margaret UniversityRed Pepper Events and ProductionsRent Flats DundeeRobert Gordon UniversityRockpool Fish and Chip RestaurantSAMEESizzlers Community KitchenSt Andrews UniversitySt Ninians High SchoolStirling UniversityStrathclyde UniversityUCareUniversity of GlasgowUniversity of the West of ScotlandWoodfarm Education CentreWoodfarm High SchoolYCSAYoung Muslims
NorthBolton Sixth Form CollegeBradford CollegeCardinal Newman CollegeManchester Islamic High School for GirlsDurham UniversityLancaster UniversityLeeds Beckett UniversityLiverpool John Moores UniversityManchester Metropolitan UniversityNewcastle UniversityNorthumbria UniversityTeesside UniversityUniversity of BradfordUniversity of HuddersfieldUniversity of HullUniversity of LeedsUniversity of SalfordUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of SunderlandYork St John University MidlandsAnglia Ruskin UniversityBirmingham City UniversityCoventry UniversityDe Montfort UniversityKeele UniversityLoughborough UniversityNewman UniversityNottingham Trent UniversityOxford Brookes UniversityStaffordshire UniversityUniversity of East AngliaUniversity of LeicesterUniversity of LincolnUniversity of NorthamptonUniversity of WarwickUniversity of WolverhamptonBeauchamp CollegeBirchfields Independent Girls SchoolGeneral BusinessesKing Edward VI Camp Hill School for GirlsLeicester Islamic AcademyManara AcademyRegent CollegeSir Jonathan North Community CollegeWisdom AcademyWyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College Wales & WestAndalusia Academy, BristolCardiff Muslim Scout GroupClare Food StoreDal Ul IsraIdea InvestmentKaspas
La ShishSchool of Basic Islamic StudiesSwindon CommunityTrowbridge CommunityWest BusinessesBangor UniversityCardiff Metropolitan UniversitySwansea UniversityUniversity of BathUniversity of BristolUniversity of the West of England, Bristol LondonAnima D’ItaliaBrentside High SchoolCity University LondonGoldsmiths, University of LondonIlford County High SchoolImperial College LondonKing’s College LondonKingston University LondonLeyton Sixth Form CollegeLondon School of Economics & Political ScienceLondon South Bank UniversityMiddlesex University LondonMinah Khan CommunityMulberry School for GirlsNewham Collegiate Sixth Form CentreOakland School Sixth FormPimlico AcademyPlashet SchoolPreston Manor SchoolQueen Mary University of London & BartsRoyal Holloway University of LondonSOAS University of LondonSt George’s University of LondonThe Rochester Grammar SchoolTooting Sunday CircleUniversity College LondonUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of East LondonUniversity of EssexUniversity of HertfordshireWoodhouse CollegeYouthGivers SouthBournemouth UniversityPlymouth UniversityUniversity of BrightonUniversity of GreenwichUniversity of KentUniversity of PortsmouthUniversity of ReadingUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of Surrey
University of SussexBrighton CollegeFitrah Primary SchoolNightingale TaekwondoSouthampton Muslim Youth CampaignUniversities at Medway
GermanyAsya (Hannover)HannoverBerlinBonnBraunschweig: Union Muslimischer StudentenCake Days HannoverGoslar HamburgHildesheim(IHV) Islamische Hochschulvereinigung Hannover(MHH-IG) Islamische Hochschulvereinigung der Medizinischen HochschuleJacobs University Islamic Society CampusKoblenzMainzMannheimMuslimische Jugend in DeutschlandTürkische Jugend Niedersachsen
QatarCarnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ)College of North Atlantic Qatar (CNAQ)Georgetown University School of Foreign Services in Qatar (GUQ)Texas A&M Qatar (TAMUQ)Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQ)
CanadaBrock UniversityConcordia UniversityDalhousie UniversityIslamic Foundation School of TorontoMcGill UniversityRyerson University
Trent UniversityUniversité du Québec à MontréalUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Ontario Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Toronto - ScarboroughUniversity of Toronto - St. GeorgeUniversity of Toronto – MississaugaUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of Western OntarioUniversity of WindsorWilfrid Laurier UniversityYork University
USAColumbia University Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNortheastern UniversityQueens College NYRice UniversitySouthern Methodist UniversityThe University of ChicagoUT AustinUT San Antonio
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Resource Distribution
UK Canada Qatar Germany USA
Midlands London SouthWales & The West
North Scotland
Buck
et
224* 489 96 122 226 215 40 30 20 120
Penn
y Bo
xes
99* 193 24 63 100 210 n/a 30 20 n/a
Natio
nal P
oste
rs
185 635 109 135 216 139 340printed
at campus 150 240
Pam
phle
ts
1580 5260 1040 940 2100 2950 0printed
at campus 200 60
Guid
elin
es
58 183 36 37 59 40 65printed
at campus 0 60
T-Sh
irts
470 1760 300 319 520 651 545 150 120 220
Calculating the appropriate quantities of printed materials and fundraising materials continues to be one of the biggest
technical challenges in running Charity Week - and this is only because we continue to prioritise efficiency. In the cases of UK
regions, Qatar and Canada, i.e. countries that have previously participated in Charity Week, pennyboxes and buckets from
previous years were re-used. The figures below are the quantities of resources that were required to deliver CW2015.
Hoverboards. A horse’s head. A
foghorn.All present at the
Midlands University briefing day.
Cakes? Old news..
A ‘Bubble Tea’ stall was organised at St
Andrew’s.
*None ordered; previous year’s supply used
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The money spent to deliver Charity Week is an amanah, entrusted to us to use with care and for the intended purpose. This is money that could have gone directly to the poor, but instead it has been invested into the campaign. It is up to us to spend it with care and ensure that the return is excellent.
Expenditure & Resource Returns
UK - £ Canada - $ Qatar - QAR Germany - € USA - $
Resources 15,980.50 5,327.06 7,312 3,486 3,000.66Travel 3,462.09 1,656.53 N/A 222 0Annual Dinners 13,081.34 1947.50
20,000 kindly paid by Reach Out To Asia, a member of Qatar
Foundation1,529 attended Scotland dinner
via video link
Miscellaneous 3,150 02,000
includes team training, shipping &
trophies
0 0
Training Day 4,306.34 642.64 0 0 0Total
Expenditure 39,980.27 9,573.73 29,312 5,237 3,000.66
In the UK, our policy of asking regions to track and return buckets and pennyboxes has proven to be an effective way to reduce costs. We hope to encourage a similar system in our other participating countries.
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Having a team that is spread across an entire country (or several countries) makes it difficult to get that team spirit and excitement going. Many people can work together in Charity Week for an entire year and never meet in person.
The solution we came up in the UK was Assemble. Not only did this ambitious event address team bonding, but it included training to ensure consistency and constant improvement in our delivery of CW. Talks were delivered by experienced Charity Weekers. There were ice breakers as well as break out rooms for regions and departments, ensuring an enjoyable yet productive way to train every member of the Charity Week team.
Training our Teams
The event ran to schedule, starting and finishing right on time.. it had to, otherwise the
Scots would have missed their flights home!
The Ted-style Talk titles included:
What if Apple ran Charity Week?
Islamic Relief & Charity Week: relationship status
Lifehacks for the busy Charity Weeker
The culture of Charity Week
Projects: Why what we do makes a difference
@EmKayy89 - 4 more sleeps till
#CWAssemble! Eeek! Can’t wait to be reunited with my
old #CWFamily and meet the new members
insha’Allah :)
@aliemadjaffery - our hearts cant
help but tremble when 1000’s of youths
assemble
@Inayahtweets - Motivation. Innovation.
Perspiration. Presentation. Focus on the vision & you can achieve <3 #CW2015
@Saqii_2A7 - @CharityWeek
- establishing the equilibrium
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International Total
£765,675.51Equivalent to
$1,393,328.61CA or €965,114.13 or
QAR3,962,884.96 or $1,088,351.28US
UK
£699,675.32Canada
$46,299.91CA
Qatar
QAR63,998.46
Germany
€25,248.04
USA
$11,611.66US
Columbia $232
Northeastern University $707.47
SMU $421.67
U Chicago $756.65
Rice University $1,022.04
MIT $1,195.92
UTSA $1,212.50
UT Austin $1,407.41
Queens College NY $4,656
London £438,988.03
Scotland £102,234.64
Midlands £54,388.37
North £50,543.18South
£29,941.13
Wales & West £23,579.97
Hannover €13,440.27
Hamburg €3,439.20
Mannheim €2,571
Koblenz €1225
Mainz €835Braunschweig €760
Hildeshelm €585.10Goslar €350
Berlin €690.69
Bremen €400
UK
TAMUQ QAR6593.14
CMUQ QAR18,557.26
CNAQ QAR14,400
GUQ QAR9300.78
VCUQ QAR8167.42
Inter Uni QAR6,980
Qatar
Germany
USA
Canada
University of Calgary
$12,748.12
Dalhousie University $7,967.98
McGill University $3,159.40
University of Toronto Scarborough $3,110.94
University of Toronto - St. George $2,550.70
Ryerson University $2,071.80
University of Toronto - Mississuaga $1,652.65
Western University $1,291.95
Wilfrid Laurier University $614.97
University of Windsor $4,079.30
York University $2,186.55
University of Ontario Institute of
Technology $2,019.40
Islamic Foundation School $1,596.15
University of Waterloo $1,000
Concordia University $250
Bonn €871.67
General €80
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Results & Breakdowns
Londo
n
Midl
ands
North
Scotla
nd
Wales &
West
South
Online
CardPayments
BankDeposits
65%
36%
91%74% 83%
45%
6%
7%
18%
35%
58%
9%19% 17%
37%
£30,
000
£130
,000
Charity Week Totals Since 2004
£160
,000
£220
,000
£307
,000
£324
,000
£399
,859
£378
,898
£448
,401
£595
,506
.24
£736
,644
.82
£ 76
5,67
5.51
CanadaGermanyQatarUSA
UK
UK Canada Qatar Germany USA
Midlands London South Wales & West North Scotland
Keele University
£9,309.32
UCL
£109,830.77
University of Surrey
£8,950.44
Swansea University
£6,608.90
M’chester Islamic
High School for
Girls
£9,458.55
City of Glasgow*
£38,288.53
University of Calgary
$12,748.12
Carnegie Mellon
University in Qatar
QAR
18,557.26
IHV Islamische
Hoch-schulv-
ereinigung Hannover
€4,144*
Queens College NY
MSA
$4,656
Donation Structure
Top Raisers
Congratulations to every institution that took part. Although, we have never considered our grand total to be our measure of success, we celebrate it as a reflection of the number of people who have taken part, cooperated together and competed in good spirits. That’s what makes the grand total truly worth celebrating!
Within a 24 hour period from the 12th of November, Scotland doubled their donations
online from £12,000 to over £24,000
Manchester Metropolitan University saw a homeless man donate all the money he had
collected in his cup to CW
Scotland competed in city-groups
rather than institutions. IHV
Hannover does not include joint
fundraising with MHH
King’s College London students climbed half
way up Snowdon. Weather conditions were poor, forcing them to come back down...And then they decided to go back up, this time to the top.
Keele ISoc made 140 sandwiches for all the
people who took part in the sponsored climb up Mount
Snowdon
De Montfort University sold 270 donuts on campus
in just 48 hours
From cakes:KCL made £8,100
Queen Mary’s made £5,500UCL made £20,000
Bradford College, an institution taking part in
CW for the first time had its students and staff take part in the Bradford 10k Marathon
Nov 13th midnightOnline total £203kNov 14th midnightOnline total £321k
(That’s a jump of £118k)
Wales and West had a huge increase of schools & colleges taking part in CW, outnumbering universities
A selection of some of the curious, interesting and entertaining happenings
during CW2015
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A teacher from Manchester Islamic High School for
Girls cooked 7kg of biryani for CW
Germany saw CW’s first ever event held in a nursing
home
A week before the banking deadline, CW UK online fundraising was on £99k. Thereafter approximately
£13k was raised daily.
Ahmed Shaikh travelled to Qatar, Canada, the USA and Germany, becoming
the first person to visit every international team in one
year.
Children from Leicester Islamic Academy wrote letters to some of the orphans who have benefitted from funds
raised through CW
The founding national directors for Germany and the USA are both graduates
from Imperial College London
The UK CW North team used 20 WhatsApp groups
for planning - 4 of which were dedicated to planning the
International Annual Dinner
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PublicityThe publicity team at Charity Week has developed slowly but surely over the years. Although we are not yet getting past the critical phase, the foundations are strong and the quality and quantity of our publicity materials are improving.
Published Articles on Charity Week
The Luckiest Muslims in America - Published by MuslimMatters
University of Windsor makes mark on Charity Week - Published by The
Lance, University of Windsor online
Society Blog: ISoc Charity Week 2015 - Published by
Huddersfield Students Union
ISoc Charity Week - Published by Beauchamp College Website
Imperial’s Charity Week raises over £61,000 - Published by Felix, Imperial SU online magazine
Charity Week 2015 - Published by Waterfront online -
magazine for Swansea SU
Medway ISoc Charity Week a great success - Published by Greenwhich
and Kent Student Unions
Volunteers taking the world by storm - Edge Magazine
Mohammed Ibrahim berichtet aus Hannover über eine
Idee, Wohltätigkeit zu leben - Islamische Zeitung
Die erste deutsche Charity Week: Eine Woche, die Geschichte schreibt
- Islamic Relief Deutschland
• QMUL students raise more than £48,000 for Charity Week - Queen Mary University of London News
I-SOC raise over £3,200 - The Students’ Union at UWE
Charity week raises over £2,300 - University of Bath Students’ Union
Charity Week 2015 - The Waterfront (Swansea
University Student Union)
CW2015: The Next Chaper (Pt.2) CW2015 International Trailer
Was ist Charity Week?Musa’s Story
The Luckiest Muslim in America! CW2015 - Recruitment Video!
Leeds Uni had Ali Imdad from Great
British Bake Off attend and judge their Bake-Off
event
Snapchat is the newest kid on the Social Media block and catching up with established platforms like Twitter. Despite initial misgivings, the CW2015 experiment on Snapchat was a big success especially as the story format has been one of the best ways to showcase what Charity Week is all about.
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Social Media
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
UK 100 974 1760 3063 3990 4868
Canada - - - - 638 887
Qatar - - - - 292 718
Germany - - - - - 872
USA - - - - - 566
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
UK 30 260 834 1193 1647 2144
Canada - - - - 193 298
Qatar - - - - - 263
Germany - - - - - 134
USA - - - - - 383
From 123 to 156 subscribers in the last year, we are definitely missing a trick when it comes to
YouTube.
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GAZ
A
Where the Money GoesOne of the unique benefits of being part of Charity Week is that every single volunteer gets to have a say in where all of the money goes. We organised Charity Week together, we raised the funds together, therefore it only makes sense to spend it together.
GAZ
A
The Issues • >3,600 newborns in Gaza need intensive care
each year
• The NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) is NOT able to cope
• >75% of these sick newborns end up dying
• This is one reason why the infant mortality rate in Gaza is rising to more than 20 per 1000
• Also, studies indicate that almost 70% of Gazan children suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
How have you changed things?• 3,600 sick newborns a year given life saving
treatment and care
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Monitors, 2 transport incubators, neonatal medications
• 140 doctors taught in 3 neonatal support courses per year
• 24 nurses given specialist training in NICU at Al-Maqqasad Hospital in Jerusalem
• Training local engineers to maintain specialist equipment
• More than 200 children given psychological support, sports therapy and tools to decrease stress & anxiety
Central Gaza, Khan Younis, Rafah
£ 271,012.51 GBP$ 496,850.68 CA$ 382,838.20 US€ 335,729.49 EUQ 1,394,042.20 QAR
SYR
IA
Bekaa Valley (Lebanon), Erbil (Iraq), Refugee camps (Jordan)Number of beneficiaries: >2,340 refugee families with >11,000 total individuals
The Issues • Between 2-3 million Syrian children cannot go to
school
• Up to 50% of the 5 million Syrian refugees are children
• The majority of refugee families have left everything behind
• They have no source of income and no way to protect themselves against the harsh winter
• Many of the refugee children have limited schooling thereby destroying their future as well as their present
How have you changed things?For each refugee family:
• 2 blankets
• 2 pillows and 2 mattresses
• 1 stove
• 2 sets of childrens boots and clothes
• Priority given to unaccompanied children, special needs and households run by single mothers
• Children given uniforms, books, stationery and enrolled into local schools
• Classrooms rehabilitated
£ 125,516.84 GBP$ 230,112.44 CA$ 177,293.29 US€ 155,457.79 EUQ645,498.99 QAR
ROHINGYA
Bekaa Valley (Lebanon), Erbil (Iraq), Refugee camps (Jordan)Number of beneficiaries: >2,340 refugee families with >11,000 total individuals
Rakhine, Kayin State and remote coastal villages (Myanmar)Number of beneficiaries: 60,000 people in 200 villages + 4000 school children
Duration: 2 years (Boat Clinic) 6 months (Education)
The Issues• Severe floods along with ethnic and religious conflict
has meant an entire generation of children do not have
access to education
• Schools are in poor repair after floods and violence
• Many teachers and others have fled, leaving few skilled
personnel to run a school
• There are only 3 medical doctors for 430,000 people in
the coastal areas of Rakhine state
• This lack of medical care means that many vulnerable
people are suffering & dying from treatable conditions
• Unfortunately, due to ongoing persecution, these
communities are inaccessible except by boat
How have you changed things?• 2 boats have been fitted out as boat clinics, containing
a pathology lab, ultrasound machine and x-ray facilities
and a fully stocked pharmacy with lifesaving drugs
• They have doctors, nurses and other health care
professionals
• Giving priority to children and the disabled, they will
visit more than 10,000 households every month to offer
healthcare to some of the most persecuted people on
the planet
• 25 schools will be given targeted assistance in training
160 teachers
• School management committees and Parent Teacher
Associations will be set up
• 4000 school children will be given education materials
and packages to help their learning
£ 131,495.00 GBP$ 241,079.11 CA$ 185,724.92 US€ 162,861.99 EUQ676,261.79 QAR
INDIA
Photos are for illustrative purposes only
The Issues• 50% of the approximate 360 million children in
India live in slums
• Most of them are forced into child labour
• Some into prostitution and drug trafficking
• They have little hygiene, are malnourished and frequently ill
• They are invisible
-
How have you changed things?• A mobile health clinic visiting the slum children
4 times a week
• Shelter for 3000 homeless children and their mothers per year
• Income support for 50 mothers per year so they can look after their family
• The project aims to work with government, communities and families to provide help accessing shelter, healthcare and education
DelhiNumber of beneficiaries: 18,150 Duration: 3 years
£ 232,500 GBP$ 426,305.17 CA$ 328,401.78 US€ 287,925.81 EUQ 1,195,717 QAR
DelhiNumber of beneficiaries: 18,150 Duration: 3 years
U§K
CanadaQatar
USA
Germany
Wales &
West
ScotlandSouth
Midlands
LondonNorth &
International
VENUETem
ple of Peace, Cardiff
Station Hotel, Perth
Everest Cuisine,
Southampton
Grand Occasions
Banqueting Suite
The Waterlily,
Mile End
Usmania
Banqueting Hall
Uni of Toronto,
Multi-faith centre
HBKU CentreSkype (joined
Scotland dinner)
Medizinische
Hochschule Hannover
HannoverDATE
15th Nov15th Nov
21st Nov22nd Nov
28th Nov29th Nov
7th Nov 8th Nov
15th Nov 27th Nov
ATTENDEES (Approx.)
100170
110250
550300
120 100
20 (online)
120
Annual Dinners
The U
SA CW
team
joined the Scots for their A
nnual Dinner...
via live stream.
The Q
atar co-national director moved
to Texas. There she got in touch w
ith the C
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Starting the Next ChapterCharity Week 2015 was an eventful yearFrom having two new countries come on board to seeing the maturing of the project in UK, Canada and Qatar - there were many reasons to be grateful. But possibly the best moment of all came right at the end with the International Dinner held in Manchester.
Unseasonably high winds meant that the beautiful marquee we had set up was unsafe to stay in. 45 minutes before start time, we made the decision to move everyone and everything to another venue across the city.
A catastrophic turn of events that would have broken many, became the highlight of the year as the entire Charity Week team rolled up their sleeves and worked like a well oiled machine to pack up what we spent hours laying out and move it to a new venue in time for our guests. That evening we proved that nothing is impossible if we stand united.
As preparation for CW2016 is already underway, we hope to learn from our mistakes and improve furthermore - but not forgetting all the stories we’ve lived along the way.
Cue mass hysteria! At 00:00 Fri Nov 13th the Charity Week UK team panicked as the fundraising pages went down. Posts were
going out left, right & centre on social media. Messages were being sent out from the institutional to national levels.
The fundraising pages were back less than 15 minutes later.
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