During the six months from September 2024 to the end of February 2025, the Community Service Center and the Multaqat al-Khair Fund provided financial assistance worth 684,000 shekels. The areas of expenditure varied between providing financial grants and loans, assisting in housing rehabilitation, providing sponsorship for orphans and health services, caring for the elderly and the needy, in addition to the afforestation campaign in the local schools.
Through the community service course, the center provided 38,000 hours of work completed by students in charitable and public institutions, as well as donating 2,612 blood units. As part of the same course, 412 students worked on environmental fieldwork at the university's old campus, where they were trained to plant seedlings in the old campus garden with wheat and legumes. To enhance student preparedness, 45 students enrolled in the community service course were trained in first aid skills, while 50 students participated in another fire and rescue course.
154 students benefited from financial grants worth 141,862 shekels, while 211 students benefited from soft loans worth 231068 shekels.
On the other hand, four houses for poor families and four health facilities worth 71,700 were rehabilitated at the National Hospital in Nablus.
The humanitarian aid provided by the center and the charity forum varied to include 131 beneficiaries of sponsoring orphaned children and social cases worth 120,748 shekels during six months, while financial aid was provided to 122 needy families worth 40,215 shekels, in addition to providing in-kind assistance (refrigerator, washing machine, furniture, blanket, building materials). In addition to providing in-kind assistance to needy families worth 6600 shekels.
The center and the charity forum continued to provide humanitarian efforts by providing 48 disabled and elderly beneficiaries with adults diapers worth 15,552 shekels, in addition to providing daily bread for ten families worth 6,300 shekels.
Food aid was provided to 90 families worth 5080 shekels, and support for the Autism Fund worth 11440 shekels. The services provided included assistance for medical examinations, laboratory tests, x-rays, medicines, eyeglasses, speech therapy sessions, cochlear implants and physiotherapy for 40 beneficiaries, worth 20,852 shekels.
To improve the school environment and encourage students to pay attention to the environment and afforestation, an afforestation campaign was launched that included 19 schools in the governorate, during which 337 olive trees were planted, while students planted 127 olive tree and forest trees in their home gardens. 9770 shekels were provided to rehabilitate school gardens and plant olive saplings, the fruits of which will benefit the beneficiary schools. 240 students from various schools in the governorate participated in the campaign.
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