Midterm Highlights from An-Najah Community Service Center’s Humanitarian Outreach
The Community Service Center and the Good Meeting Fund at An-Najah National University published their midterm report on humanitarian aid for the period from September 2024 to February 2025. The aid included financial grants, loans, housing rehabilitation, orphan sponsorships, health services, elderly and needy care, and a tree planting campaign in schools.
Through the Community Service course, students contributed 38,000 hours of work in charitable and public institutions, donated 2,612 blood units, and participated in field environmental work on the University - Old campus, where they planted wheat and legume seedlings. Additionally, 45 students were trained in first aid, and 50 students took a firefighting and rescue course. Furthermore, 412 students worked on field environmental projects on the old university campus, where they were trained in planting its garden with wheat and legume seedlings.
Financial grants were provided to 154 students, including orphans, special needs, and needy students, totaling 141,862 NIS. Meanwhile, 211 students received interest-free loans totaling 231,068 NIS. Four homes for poor families and four health facilities at the National Hospital in Nablus were rehabilitated at a cost of 71,700 NIS.
Humanitarian aid also included 131 beneficiaries of orphan sponsorships and social cases, valued at 120,748 NIS, and 122 needy families receiving 40,215 NIS in financial aid. In-kind donations (refrigerators, washing machines, furniture, blankets, building materials) were provided to needy families totaling 6,600 NIS.
The center also supplied 48 disabled and elderly beneficiaries with diapers (15,552 NIS), provided daily bread to ten families (6,300 NIS), and distributed school bags, stationery, and uniforms to 120 children (3,680 NIS). Food aid was provided to 90 families (5,080 NIS), and support for the Autism Fund amounted to 11,440 NIS. Services for medical and lab tests, X-rays, medicines, eyeglasses, speech therapy, cochlear implants, and physical therapy were provided to 40 beneficiaries, valued at 20,852 NIS.
A tree planting campaign in 19 schools in Nablus led to the planting of 337 fruit trees and 127 fruit and forest trees in students’ home gardens. A total of 9,770 NIS was allocated for rehabilitating school gardens with olive seedlings, the proceeds of which will benefit the schools. The campaign involved 240 students from various schools.
