CMU-Q raised a total of 19,282 QR for this year’s Charity Week, the highest in Education City and third overall in Qatar.

CMU-Q was the first university in Qatar to participate in Charity Week for Orphans and Needy Children, an international campaign within Islamic Relief, one of the largest Muslim charities in the world. Now in its third year in Qatar, other universities in Education City, as well as Qatar University and College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, have joined the campaign.

Sherif Mostafa, a senior in the Biological Sciences program, organized the event at Carnegie Mellon Qatar. “We had a WhatsApp group with the other universities to see how they were doing, and to cheer each other on.” University students in Qatar raised a total of 131,450 QR during Charity Week 2016.

At CMU-Q, more than two dozen student volunteers organized events each day of the week of October 24, 2016. The funds will go to this year’s projects in Syria, Bangladesh and Gaza, as well as to refugees in Calais, Jordan and Europe.