{"id":4849,"date":"2024-02-07T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:50","slug":"campus-efforts-for-gaza-net-400k-in-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/campus-efforts-for-gaza-net-400k-in-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus efforts for Gaza net 400K in donations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Sabah Zaheer<\/p>\n\n\n

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UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH\u2014 The Student Council, often in collaboration with the Palestinian Cultural Club, has raised about AED 400,000 for Gaza charity organizations and is planning more fundraising events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student Council President Mira Daoud said charities benefiting from AUS support include Tarahum <\/em>of Gaza \u2013 its name means \u201ccompassion\u201d in Arabic \u2013 and Emirates Red Crescent. An \u201cAUS to Gaza with Love\u201d event provided money for the Big Heart Foundation, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future events include a Feb. 10 \u201cAUS Giving Day\u201d to feature workshops, a marketplace and entertainment. The proceeds will be donated to a scholarship fund towards children in Gaza, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible how every event has been met with so much love and enthusiasm from students towards the Gaza relief programme,\u201d Daoud said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many students, she said, have been wearing the keffiyeh<\/em> around campus to show support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sabah Zaheer UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH\u2014 The Student Council, often in collaboration with the Palestinian Cultural Club, has raised about AED 400,000 for Gaza charity organizations and is planning more fundraising events. Student Council President Mira Daoud said charities benefiting from AUS support include Tarahum of Gaza \u2013 its name means \u201ccompassion\u201d in Arabic \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,32,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-4849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}