No Poverty in Saudi Arabia
SDG 1 aims to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by addressing the root causes and ensuring social protection for vulnerable populations. Saudi Arabia has made significant strides in reducing poverty and improving living standards as part of its Vision 2030 initiative, which aligns closely with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Efforts by the Saudi Government to Address SDG 1
Economic Diversification under Vision 2030:
Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 focuses on reducing the country's dependence on oil and fostering diverse economic opportunities. This includes creating jobs in various sectors like technology, tourism, and renewable energy, which contribute to reducing poverty by boosting employment.
Social Protection Programs:
The Saudi government has implemented social protection programs like the Citizens Account Program, which provides financial support to low- and middle-income families to offset the impact of economic reforms.
Programs such as Sakani provide affordable housing options for Saudi citizens, ensuring that vulnerable populations have access to decent living conditions, reducing housing-related poverty.
Saudi Arabia has institutionalized systems for collecting and distributing Zakat, a mandatory form of charity in Islam, to support the underprivileged. The Saudi Zakat, Tax, and Customs Authority (ZATCA) ensures that funds are channeled effectively to address poverty.
Education and Skill Development:
Investments in education and vocational training programs help equip citizens with the skills needed for the modern job market, reducing unemployment and poverty rates.
Support for Women and Youth:
Empowering women and youth is a central pillar of Saudi Arabia's poverty eradication strategy. Initiatives such as increased women's workforce participation and entrepreneurship funding enable more families to achieve financial independence.
SDG 1 and Its Implementation at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMAMU)
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMAMU) plays an active role in addressing SDG 1 by focusing on educational initiatives, community outreach, and research:
Education as a Tool to Alleviate Poverty:
IMAMU provides scholarships and financial aid to underprivileged students, ensuring access to quality education. By fostering a knowledge-driven environment, the university empowers students with skills to secure better job opportunities.
Community Development Programs:
The university organizes social programs that directly impact impoverished communities, such as literacy campaigns, vocational training workshops, and Islamic guidance on economic self-sufficiency.
IMAMU conducts research focused on poverty alleviation strategies rooted in Islamic teachings and modern economic practices. This research informs policies that align with national and global goals.
Collaboration with Government and NGOs:
IMAMU collaborates with government bodies and non-governmental organizations to address poverty through charity drives, awareness programs, and internships that contribute to students' socio-economic growth.
Focus on Islamic Perspective of Poverty Eradication:
As an Islamic university, IMAMU integrates Islamic principles such as Zakat and Sadaqah (voluntary charity) into its curriculum and community engagement efforts, promoting a culture of social responsibility and collective welfare.
The Director of Imam Mohammed Bin Saud Islamic University, Dr. Suleiman bin Abdullah Abba al-Khayyal, welcomed the sponsorship of the Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed al-Ankari for the launch of the educational charitable fund targeting grant students, and said: The establishment of Imam University for the Educational Charitable Fund confirms its responsibility towards its leading role in the educational process in the community at the local and international levels, according to a vision that helps to educate grant students, and qualify them to contribute to the advancement of their communities and achieve their development goals, and to achieve their qualification to play the development role of During the facilitation of their admission to the university, and providing financial assistance to them, his Excellency explained that the university did the decision of the Council of Ministers No. 94 on 29 March 1431, which includes the admission of students scholarships, which emphasizes the creation of charitable funds in educational institutions to support grant programs, and is based on subsidies, donations, donations, wills and endowments, and the institution's budget in accordance with the rules approved by the University Council.
Abba al-Khail stressed that the university responded to the aspirations of the guardians and decided to establish the Educational Charitable Fund, which works independently to organize scholarship programs and enable scholarship students to attend university, and to help them and help them, and the Fund also works to collect resources and financial flows from subsidies, donations, wills and endowments, and work on managing them and directing them to support scholarship programs funded by the charitable fund, which is characterized by the presence of financial resources that help to educate and rehabilitate grant students. To contribute to the advancement of their communities and achieve their development goals, pointing out that the Fund provides educational opportunities for non-Saudi scholarship students in order to achieve their qualification to play their development role, by facilitating their admission to the university and providing them with financial assistance.
Educational Charitable Fund
Reference to the Saudi Cabinet resolution No 94 dated 29/03/1431 H, which stipulates the rules and regulations for the non-Saudi scholarship students, that clearly codifies the creation of charitable funds within the educational institutions. And as article (9-E) specifying that: “Establishing a charitable fund at every educational institution to support scholarship programs, that financing by donations, contributions, gifts, wills and endowments as well as allocated funds within budgets".
To underscore the university responsibility to discharge its pioneering role within the educational process in the community, it was proposed the founding of the educational charitable fund with separate powers to regulate the scholarship programs and help scholarship students to enroll at the specified academic programs. The fund will work on collecting resources and financial mounts generated from donations, contributions, gifts, wills and endowments, and administer and direct them towards backing scholarship programs.
Variety Achievements
• Active participation at 1st International Saudi Conference of Medical Education, King Fahd Medical City, 12-24, 4, 1429 H.
• Inking of a consulting agreement with Tebsa Spanish Inc. to perform architectural designs of College of Medicine and the University Medical Hospital.
• Conduct some research, investigation, publishing and translation plans and projects thru researches which are published or still pending.
• A staunch effort has been carried out by the university on the university year of 1429-1430 H on refereeing masters and PhDs thesis and dissertations and thru the researches prepared by the faculty staff members for the purpose of promotion.
• Bold cooperation with many higher institutes and universities all around the world as well as many internal and external Islamic research centres.
• Founding a number of research chairs at the university such as Prince Naif Chair for Narcotics Prevention, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Research Chair for Academic Endowments Projects, and Saudi Social Affairs Ministry Research Chair for Caring Orphans and Special Needs Persons.
• Subscribe at many Arabic and foreign e-information data.
• Continuous updating in academic dissertations database until it exceeds seven thousand and one hundred dissertations.
• The university center for Community Service and Continuing Education has initialized many training courses in different specifications in order to serve the community and leverage the educational and functional capabilities for people. The university center has also participated in different cultural and social ceremonies inside the homeland, and many were joined and benefited from those training courses.
• Al-Imam University have contributed largely, based upon its experiences, in serving the educational institutions when the faculty staff members were take part in some military and non-military colleges and were recruited as part time consultants in many governmental agencies.
• Prince Naif Institute for Research and Consulting Services, attributed with the university, has cementing its scientific bonds with many institutions at the public and private sectors through conducting researches and studies financed by those institutions. It likewise has provided programs of academic guidance for a number of the educational institutions.
• Crafting a timeline plan to develop and hope-up capabilities of faculty staff members inside the university.
• Enhancing the human recourses cadres thru training programs and ascending faculty staff members and employees inside and outside Saudi Arabia.
• Leveraging the medical services of the university by equipping modernized medical tools and machines along with expanding emergency and ambulance department.
• Designing the organizational structure of the medical services with its job description, beside crafting work policies and regulations.
• Finalizing many phases of the female educational area of the university campus.
• Signing an agreement with Al-Tayyar Travel Company to establishing a travelling agency inside the university to handle the bookings and tickets matters to all employees and students of the university.
• Founding a new deanship replacing the current Assessment and Quality Unit dealing with development, quality and academic accreditation at all colleges and departments.
• Inking a MOU with QS institution to strengthening the quality of the education and scientific research of the university as well as enhancing the strategies of quality and assessment applications.
Student Fund
Student fund was founded during the academic year of 1397/1398 H when the deanship of student affairs has considered it's important to found a service to serve students whom their social conditions requires support or others whom emergency circumstances facing them. With a view to let necessitous student feel a spirit of Islamic social solidarity and then help him/her to more academic and study efforts as the university officials are always keenness to provide a stability for them.
The first cornerstone of the fund was the issuance of the university supreme council's decision No 18 during the second regular meeting in 18/03/1397 H that approved the establishment of the fund. The said decision was clearly crafted the fund and its objectives as it for the charitable student purposes which not covered by the university annual budget as well as supporting needy students. The financing of the fund would be from the contributions of the students themselves and donations. Additional rules for the perfect works of the fund have also been identified by the decision.
A series of decisions issued by the university council had been followed for the rearrangement of the student's contributions rate and the fund allocated for each college and Sharia institute, the undergraduate student contribution mounted-up from two Saudi Riyals to ten and the contribution of the Sharia institute's student also increased from two Saudi Riyals to five.
Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University signs a memorandum of understanding with Sanad Charitable Association
Al-Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, represented by the College of Information and Communication, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Sanad Charitable Association to support children with cancer.
The memorandum aims to use the media and communication expertise that the college possesses within the framework of social responsibility, and to support charitable and humanitarian institutions, as Sanad Association is one of the first providers of charitable work.
The memorandum was signed by His Highness Prince Dr. Saad bin Saud bin Muhammad, Dean of the College of Media and Communication at the university, and Her Royal Highness Princess Adela bint Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Sanad Charitable Society.
Sacrifice at Hajj
The delegation of scholarship students with Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic, participating in the project to benefit from the meat of the sacrifice and sacrifice, in coordination with the Islamic Development Bank, on the Hajj of 1443 AH on the morning of the blessed Eid al-Adha, sorting the sheep that are legally divided into the sacrifice and the implementation of the work and the establishment of a greeting meeting for the delegation.
Imam Mohammed Bin Saud Islamic University signs memorandum of cooperation with health charity to care for patients
Imam Mohammed bin Saud Islamic University signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Health Charity Society for Patient Care (INA) on Tuesday afternoon in the office of His Excellency the Director of the University Sheikh Dr. Suleiman bin Abdullah Abba al-Khail represented in the deanship of the Center for Volunteer Work Studies a memorandum of cooperation with the Health Charity Society for TheCare of Patients (Inaya), and signed the agreement by the University and its agent for knowledge exchange and international communication Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Yousef and the Health Charity Society for the Care of Patients Chairman H.E. Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Suwaylem.
His Excellency said that the Prophet (pbuh) is a living model, a role model and a beacon that illuminates the way for those working in the field of good and helping the needy, and the evidence, examples and facts are many incalculable and followed by his companions and those who followed them with charity to this day and this Sunni Salafist state Saudi Arabia stands dear and strikes a wonderful example in all that serves the groups of society, whether they are healthy or sick and our leader in that and the example that follows is the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and His Highness the Secretary, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman, may God save them, then came that strategic vision of the national scientific, socio-economic scientific and economic strategy launched by the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and was its pioneer, activator, builder and worker for its realization on the ground is His Highness the Crown Prince- May God save him.
His Excellency stressed that cooperation between institutions in their public and private sectors, government and civil has become an important demand, especially with the goals and vision of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2030 and the national transformation program 2020 and that one of the most important things that this vision has worked with is volunteerism and touch all safety that will support, push and strengthen its features, work and activities.
For his part, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Suwailem, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association, expressed their happiness and pride in signing the cooperation agreement between Imam University and the Health Charity Society for Patient Care (Inaya), stressing that Al-Imam University is an ancient university with a scientific and social status and we are proud to cooperate with it.
His Excellency pointed out that the signing of this agreement strengthens the partnership that the association has with important sectors of society, pointing out that the association is concerned with the treatment of patients poor and needy and extends its work on many issues of volunteering and confirmed their efforts to conclude partnerships with various institutions of society, pointing out that institutional work does not depend on individuals, everyone works and initiates.
Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Yousef, the university's undersecretary for knowledge exchange and international communication, also confirmed that the university offers all its expertise and staff in the service of the association and pointed out that the agreement includes cooperation in the field of rehabilitation and training, and cooperation in the field of health volunteering.
Send over 1200 ATM Cards to Students
The Dean of Student Affairs at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University D. Ahmad Al-Ahmad sent more than 1,200 ATM cards to the post office before the Eid holiday for male and female students, despite precautionary circumstances.
Dr. Al-Ahmed indicated that a new batch of student cards was received yesterday evening from the bank accredited at the university, and a total of (1500) cards will be sent this week according to the practice through the Saudi Post to deliver them to their owners according to the updated addresses of male and female students.
Stressing that when these envelopes are not received or received by their owners, please contact the deanship through the communication system.
Signing a memorandum of understanding between the Specialized Sub-Council of Orphans Associations and Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University http://iu.sa/Nj6r3
His Excellency the President of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Dr. Ahmed bin Salem Al-Amiri, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Specialized Sub-Council of Orphan Societies in the Kingdom, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem at the University on Sunday, February 27, 2022, signed a memorandum of understanding between the College of Social Sciences at the university and the Council, in the presence of A number of officials on both sides.
His Excellency the President of the University affirmed that the University is happy to sign such a memorandum that serves a precious group in society, indicating that it will contribute to serving both sides and for the benefit and benefit of this country. and humane.
For his part, His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem thanked the university's response and cooperation in order to sign the memorandum of understanding, noting that the university is a prominent pride teacher in this country and a source of pride for this country, noting that the specialized sub-council of orphan associations in the Kingdom needs many of the disciplines that the university contains, expressing His aspiration for this memorandum to be a nucleus for future partnerships with the university, and for the benefit of the university's employees, including faculty, students, and employees, and for the whole country, and to invest the best investment in the fields of research, studies and others.
Bank Albilad Signs a Cooperation Agreement with Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)
Bank Albilad has signed a cooperation agreement to provide multiple financial services with Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU). The agreement is aimed at providing innovative and facilitated financial services including providing financing for post-graduate and outstanding students. The agreement was signed by Mr. Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al-Onaizan, the CEO of Bank Albilad, on the part of Bank Albilad, and Prof. Ahmad bin Salem Al-Ameri, rector of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, on the part of the university.
Mr. Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al-Onaizan, the CEO of Bank Albilad, stated, “The relationship with Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) is a strategic one, as this agreement includes new means of support with the aim of contributing to the development of national cadres and providing opportunities for students through offering innovative and facilitated financing programs and products to fit with the income of both male and female students.
On his part, prof. Ahmad bin Salem Al-Ameri, rector of Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, stated, “The university is one of the educational institutions that has superior status in the Kingdom. I hope that this memorandum will benefit male and female students, as the university is keen on facilitating the process of applying for its programs for all male and female students."
Prof. Ahmad Al-Ameri concluded his speech, saying, "We hope that Bank Albilad will be a strategic partner for the university in its various activities, regarding various areas of investment, and providing community services and community partnership in a way that benefits both the university and the bank."
The agreement contributes to finding financing solutions offered to university students wishing to complete their paid postgraduate studies, such as (diploma, master's, and doctoral programs) in return for easy installments, and with a profit margin of 0%. This is in addition to granting financial and banking facilities to outstanding students, as Bank Albilad believes in his responsibility towards its community with regard to supporting the ideas and future plans of outstanding students and to motivate and encourage them. Bank Albilad is keen on providing diversified financing solutions that suit all income levels, which helps to create a distinguished generation capable of assuming management and responsibility.
It is worth mentioning that Bank Albilad pays great attention to the education sector, as Bank Albilad has supported many research chairs in a number of Saudi universities as well as many community initiatives and programs that contribute to providing support, investing in society and rehabilitating an environment that is conducive to creativity and innovation, through the Social Responsibility Program #Albilad_Initiative.
Signing a memorandum of understanding between the Specialized Sub-Council of Orphans Associations and Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University
His Excellency the President of Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University, Dr. Ahmed bin Salem Al-Amiri, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Specialized Sub-Council of Orphan Societies in the Kingdom, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem at the University on Sunday, February 27, 2022, signed a memorandum of understanding between the College of Social Sciences at the university and the Council, in the presence of A number of officials on both sides.
His Excellency the President of the University affirmed that the University is happy to sign such a memorandum that serves a precious group in society, indicating that it will contribute to serving both sides and for the benefit and benefit of this country. and humane.
For his part, His Excellency Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem thanked the university's response and cooperation in order to sign the memorandum of understanding, noting that the university is a prominent pride teacher in this country and a source of pride for this country, noting that the specialized sub-council of orphan associations in the Kingdom needs many of the disciplines that the university contains, expressing His aspiration for this memorandum to be a nucleus for future partnerships with the university, and for the benefit of the university's employees, including faculty, students, and employees, and for the whole country, and to invest the best investment in the fields of research, studies and others.
