Bangor Students Islamic Society held a quiz night as a part of a nationwide Charity Week event last week, alongside other universities in the UK.
Charity Week began as an annual volunteer-led campaign launched by a group of students in London back in 2003. 15 years later, it’s now a million pound campaign held annually in the last week of October, where over 200 institutions raise vital funds for orphans and children in need in a range of countries suffering the effects of poverty and conflict.
Launched with the vision of collective action, the project quickly spread across the UK and then across the Atlantic to Canada in 2013. Not long after, volunteers in Qatar, Germany, the USA, Australia and South Africa then joined this vibrant growing movement.
During Charity Week itself, volunteers from local schools, universities, youth groups or even simply groups of friends, undertake a wide range of fundraising activities from mountain climbing, bake sales and football tournaments to skydiving, bungee jumping, holding collections at train stations and in city centres and even staging fundraising auctions.
The Students Islamic Society committee said that they were “happy to prepare for the charity week event since they believed Bangor University students would give a hand to help all needy people over the world and help as many children as possible have a better future.”
