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The global agenda has never been so varied, so pressing or so complex. It demands of the international community new approaches, new resources and new commitments of commercial and political will. We cannot wait for governments to do it all.
Kofi Annan
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
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There is a clear and present need for rethinking development economics and questioning our prevailing paradigms. We need to pursue unconventional and locally-attuned solutions.
Robert Zoellick
Former President of the World Bank
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Research shows that countries which receive foreign aid grow considerably slower that those who don’t. They don’t have to deal with the strings which often come attached with aid and are allowed to grow organically.
William Easterly
Former World Bank Economist
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If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.
Bill Gates
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I would struggle to find an example of a country whose progress and success were more in Britain's national interest than were those of Pakistan.
David Cameron
Former UK Prime Minister
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The floods in Pakistan is the greatest humanitarian crisis the United Nations has responded to in its 65-year history, with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.
Ban Ki Moon
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
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Brydg
Brydg is a Qismat Venture Philanthropy initiative founded to maximize beneficiary impact and create a sustainable funding source for all of Qismat's philanthropic initiatives.
Brydg operates at the intersection of technology, finance and real estate to enhance capital allocation within the private credit sector. Our mission is to tackle the UN SDG goals by better understanding the future of value and trust in order to democratisation access to capital.
Youmanity
Youmanity is the first and most comprehensive directory of global charities and causes that has ever been created with the United Nations, World Bank, as well as NGO, AID and charity commission offices from all over the world.
This platform will allow anyone to engage with small and large charities alike anywhere in the world, as well as intelligently matching donors to causes through AI. Youmanity will in effect be the world’s first social and philanthropic network. At the moment, we have 1.2 million charity organizations registered and will be working with large multi-national organizations to amplify their CSR initiatives to customers and stakeholders. If Facebook is for your friends and Linkedin is for your associates…Youmanity is for the people that need you most!
COVID-19 Response
The World Health Organization has classified the coronavirus outbreak as a global health emergency, and governments around the world are taking action to control the virus from continuously spreading. The illness caused by the virus, COVID-19, has claimed the over 1 million lives and has sickened 30 million people in more than 190 countries.
COVID-19 has shown that Universal Health Coverage, strong public health systems and emergency preparedness are essential to communities and to economies. The pandemic’s impact won’t just be felt for a few weeks but for months and perhaps years to come. Since the scale of the crisis became apparent over the last year, Qismat Trust has been working hard to keep our members informed and to share information about the United Nation’s new initiative towards Universal Health Coverage as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Beneficiary Impact
Leveraging the Micro-Donations Platform and Qismat’s ‘Return-on-Donation’ ethos, Qismat aims to raise $8.6 billion and have a positive impact on the lives of 1.4 billion people across 20 nations. The countries highlighted within our Beneficiary Impact are amongst the most in need of economic developmental assistance within the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the second largest governing body to the United Nations.
Qismat’s development agenda will benefit three spheres of assistance: Humanitarianism (human need – providing immediate response and relief, aid packages and medical goods), Philanthropy (social advancement – long term research and policy implementation) and Development (sustainable economic growth – improving microeconomic factors such as education, unemployment and literacy rates).
Iconic Rickshaws For Relief
Iconic Rickshaws for Relief (IRFR) presented by Qismat is a charitable campaign aimed at raising funds and awareness of the inequalities faced by disadvantaged communities still persistent today in many developing countries.
Qismat envisions the rickshaw - an icon across developing and emerging nations - as a beacon of hope. They provide a means of sustainable livelihoods, access to remote regions and allow those living in rural areas to participate in economic activities such as the trading of goods and services. In aligning ourselves with the United Nation’s 8 Millennium Development Goals to form the basis of our philanthropic and humanitarian agenda, Qismat chooses it’s implementing partners based on these goals in an effort to end extreme poverty by 2015.
Iconic Rickshaws for Relief sees a collection of rickshaws designed by high profile brands, artists, designers and cultural visionaries come alive as they descend upon London at Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre), museums and galleries, and participate in the Cultural Olympiad this spring and summer culminating in a gala auction. The rickshaws will be brought to life by our designers who represent a kaleidoscope of artistic talent using media techniques from vinyl wraps and luxurious fabrics to photography and sculpting to craft their works of art.
As their nostalgic charm transport us, we hope you will join us on our journey to global prosperity.
Qismat Passport
The Qismat passport is a compilation of the next 20 largest growth markets in the developing world. These are 20 nations where our Qismat Micro Donations Platform will have the greatest beneficiary impact. According to Goldman Sachs, these countries also have a high potential for becoming the largest economies (excluding BRICs) in the 21st century.
Qismat's Micro Donations Platform
Our proprietary Micro Donations Platform “MDP” allows for long-term sustainable fundraising with multiple beneficiaries and exponential social multipliers.
The Qismat MDP is a locally attuned solution which empowers citizens to participate in the sustained development of a country's socio-economic status whilst providing a value proposition for all stakeholders.
In order to maximise beneficiary impact over the long-term, Qismat’s MDP has four critical core elements which revolve around an interactive Engagement Algorithm comprising of a formulaic Return on Donation strategy, a dynamic Fund Allocation system, and a sophisticated Social Enterprise hybrid network.
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Millennium Development Goals
World leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration in the year 2000, and pledged to ‘spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanising conditions of extreme poverty.’ With only five years remaining, efforts for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) become increasingly important.1.23 MB
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of development worldwide. It is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" based on life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living.13.07 MB
Future of the Global Muslim Population
The number of Muslims around the world is expected to rise by about 35% to approximately 2.2 billion by 2030. Some of the major and minor factors responsible for these demographic shifts in Global Muslim population are shown in this report.11.23 MB
The Muslim 500
The 500 Most Influential Muslims sets out to ascertain the influence some Muslims have on their community, or on behalf of the community. Influence is: any person who has the power (be it positive or negative, cultural, ideological, financial, political or otherwise) to make a change that will have a significant impact on the Muslim World. The list selects Muslim individuals from a range of categories of influence, 14 in total: (Scholarly, Political, Administration of Religious Affairs, Preachers and Spiritual Teachers, Philanthropy/Charity and Development, Social Issues, Business, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Qur’an Recitors, Media, Celebrities and Sports Stars, Radicals, and Issues of the Day). This list acts as an opportunity to shed some light on the many challenges and pioneering triumphs that are present at the very crux of shaping the Muslim community.
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21 November 2024
- World’s conflict zones increased by two-thirds in past three years, report reveals
- Eight times more children will face extreme heatwaves by 2050s, Unicef says
- Alarm over new law giving Paraguay powers to crack down on NGOs
- The world’s most ignored displacement crisis: Burkina Faso – in pictures
- X-rays show shrapnel and bullets buried in children caught in Sudan war