A new madrasah
Replace the zinc shelter with a permanent building: 5 classrooms, a prayer space and 2 toilets, with beds for the 200+ students who board here.
About $30,000 to build
Rebuild a Madrasah — Nigeria
Rebuild the madrasah they call home.
Your gift rebuilds a safe home for 200+ children learning the Qur'an — a sadaqah jariyah.
Registered 501(c)(3) · EIN 33-3343241Tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law
Their only safe place has a leaking zinc roof.
In a small madrasah in Nigeria, more than 200 children sit down every day to learn and memorize the Qur'an. Many of them are orphans. Others were displaced by insurgency and conflict — some have lost contact with their parents, and some have never known them. For many, Madrasah Gonni Auwal is more than a school. It is their only home, and their only safe place.
Its founder takes these children in and gives them shelter, guidance and Qur'anic education, with almost no steady funding behind him. They study in a simple zinc structure where the heat can pass 122°F (50°C). The building is dilapidated, the roof leaks, and the children share torn copies of the Qur'an.
When sadaqah arrives, the children eat that day. When it doesn't, they are sent out into the neighborhood to ask for leftover food. No child learning the words of Allah should have to wonder where the next meal will come from.
MyFundAction visited the madrasah recently, and MyFundAction donors have already delivered copies of the holy Qur'an to its students. Now we want to build on what they started: a safe building, clean water and a daily meal, so these children can keep learning in dignity.
One madrasah, three lasting changes
A building that keeps the children safe, water that keeps them well, and a meal that keeps them learning.
A waqf water well
Clean drinking water for the children and the community around the madrasah, which MyFundAction commits to delivering within 3 months.
$2,500 for one well
A meal every day
A food sponsorship program so every child at the madrasah eats at least one nutritious meal a day, whether or not sadaqah arrived that day.
$5 for a hot meal
Choose how you'll rebuild
Every level is a real part of the plan: classrooms, a safe structure, daily meals and clean water.
Choose your own amount
Prefer to give monthly? Choose “Monthly” in the secure checkout. A steady gift helps keep the madrasah's daily meals going, month after month.
“When a person dies, their deeds come to an end except for three: ongoing charity, knowledge that benefits, or a righteous child who prays for them.”
Hadith — Sahih Muslim
Amanah, from your gift to their classroom
MyFundAction is a youth-led humanitarian movement founded in Malaysia in 2014, with programs in several countries. MyFundAction USA is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, and donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Every project is vetted before we fundraise for it and verified on the ground through local partners. Each project's funds are held in a segregated account and are not diverted between causes, and every project goes through internal review, with photo updates as the work moves forward and at handover. Amanah, the trust you place in us, is the principle we operate by.
- 1Your giftGiven today, from anywhere in the US
- 2MyFundAction & local partnersVetted and verified on the ground
- 3Madrasah Gonni AuwalNigeria
Vetted before we fundraise
Every project is checked before we ask you to support it, then verified on the ground through local partners.
Segregated accounts
Each project's funds are held separately and are never diverted to another cause.
Photos from the ground
Every project goes through internal review, and we share progress updates with photos as the work moves forward, and photos at handover.
Waqf — clean water
Waqf the madrasah's well.
Before a child can learn, they need clean water to drink. A waqf water well brings safe drinking water to Madrasah Gonni Auwal and to the neighborhood around it, and MyFundAction commits to delivering it within 3 months.
Found the well for $2,500 and your name goes on the plaque beside it. Every child who drinks from it, and every neighbor who draws water there, becomes part of an ongoing charity that keeps returning its reward to you.
Found the well — $2,500
A waqf well: given once, drawn from long after.
- founds one waqf well
- $2,500
- or less to deliver it
- 3 months
- children at the madrasah
- 200+
- on the well's plaque
- Your name
Give them a madrasah that keeps them safe
More than 200 children are already doing the hard part: memorizing the Qur'an, every single day. Give them a safe roof, clean water and a daily meal, and let your gift become ongoing charity in every verse they learn. Please keep the students of Gonni Auwal in your du'a.
Rebuild the madrasah now
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