SINGAPORE – Muslim Pro is collaborating with Unicef as it launches its first-ever crowdfunding effort to raise money for its Children in Yemen Appeal for Ramadan 2021. Muslim Pro is the world’s most popular Muslim religious and community app with 100 million downloads to date.
The crowdfunding effort follows strong support for Muslim Pro’s Khatam Quran campaign, which encourages users to complete readings of the Quran during Ramadan. The campaign has far exceeded its expectations, with close to 500,000 Quran readings being created worldwide since the start of Ramadan.
Apart from the crowdfunding effort, Muslim Pro has pledged to donate to Unicef and Indonesia’s Islamic philanthropy organisation Dompet Dhuafa to support children’s educational needs – in line with its Khatam Quran campaign goals and aim to send disadvantaged children to school.
Muslim Pro designed its Khatam feature with a purpose: to convert good intentions into positive action. The campaign aims to reach at least 10,000 Quran completions and has pledged to contribute to the education of disadvantaged children after it achieves this target.
Zahariah Jupary, head of community for Muslim Pro said: “Although the Khatam Quran campaign is only for this Ramadan, we want it to have a positive and lasting impact on the community.
“The response to the Khatam feature has already been impressive. And this week, more than 7,000 individuals and groups have completed their Quran readings. All these readings mean that Muslim Pro can help empower hundreds of disadvantaged and vulnerable children in Yemen and Indonesia.”
#Giftofkhatam: Empowering children
Muslim Pro users can donate to Unicef throughout Ramadan until the end of May via an in-app link at https://help.unicef.org/yemen/muslim-pro to support the organisation’s emergency response and work to support the education of children in Yemen.
Apart from the crowdfunding effort, Muslim Pro will also make a corporate donation to Unicef.
Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with more than 24 million people – some 80% of the population and more than 12 million children – in need of help.
Approximately 8.1 million school-age girls and boys need Education in Emergencies (EiE) help across Yemen. More than 2.2 million children in Yemen are out of school.
Muslim Pro’s corporate donation to Indonesia-based Islamic charity organisation Dompet Dhuafa (dompetdhuafa.org) will support its pre-school programme that serves Muslim children aged three to five years old, in Bogor, Indonesia for one year.
#UnitedinKhatam: Khatam Quran campaign
From the 500,000 Quran readings that have been created, Indonesia tops the list of countries with the highest number of Khatams completed, followed by India and France.
More than eight in 10 (80.1%) of Khatam Quran users read from Muslim Pro’s digital Quran, while nearly 20% are using the app to track reading of a physical Quran.
Zahariah added: “Although we had hoped to see an improvement in the Covid-19 situation for this second Ramadan spent in a pandemic, we are pleased to see that our app continues to be of great support and aid to Muslims all over the world as our features help bridge physical distances in the practice of our faith.”
The Muslim Pro app or Muslim Pro's khatam Quran feature can be downloaded here. Muslim Pro has more than 100 million downloads in over 190 countries across users of all ages. – The Vibes, May 1, 2021
