1.3.3 Does your university as a body provide support (e.g. food, housing, transportation, legal services) for students from poorest families to enable them to complete university?
Al Maarefa University is dedicated to supporting students from the poorest families to ensure their successful completion of higher education. While the university does not explicitly define itself as a provider of all-encompassing services such as food and housing, it implements several targeted programs and policies designed to alleviate the financial and social challenges faced by economically disadvantaged students.
University Support for Low-Income Students:
- Scholarships and Financial Aid:
Al Maarefa University provides merit-based and need-based scholarships to reduce the financial burden on low-income students. This includes covering tuition fees and, in some cases, additional educational expenses. - Transportation Assistance:
The university facilitates accessible and affordable transportation options for students, ensuring that commuting is not a barrier to attending classes. - Mentorship and Academic Support:
A robust system of mentorship and counseling is available to guide students through academic challenges, ensuring they have the resources to succeed. - Community Partnerships:
Through collaboration with local organizations and government programs, the university assists students in accessing additional resources, such as affordable housing and legal support when required. - Food Support Initiatives:
The university occasionally organizes subsidized or free meal programs, particularly during events or examination periods, to support students in need.
National Framework Alignment:
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and associated initiatives emphasize inclusivity in education, providing a framework for universities like Al Maarefa to expand their social support systems. Government aid programs complement these efforts, offering stipends and support services to students from the lowest income brackets.
Opportunity for Growth:
Al Maarefa University could enhance its support by formalizing initiatives such as dedicated housing programs, continuous meal plans for low-income students, and legal aid clinics. These measures would strengthen its commitment to ensuring equitable access and opportunities for all students.
This demonstrates Al Maarefa’s proactive role in reducing socioeconomic barriers and enabling students from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve academic success.
Social Charity Fund
Awarded the best working environment in the non-profit sector for 2016 in Saudi Arabia
It is a national development foundation that plays a leading role in promoting the non-profit sector and addressing the challenges that faces the development work through empowerment and innovation. The foundation’s mission is the innovation of quality social programs and enabling the partners aiming at transforming of beneficiaries from pastoral to developmental status together with finding knowledge platform for enumerating the national developmental programs and measuring of their impact. Moreover, it has ensured that the generous guidance has included work to reduce the problem of destitution in nontraditional ways, excluding material and in kind drainage and based on the overall view of the problem and its causes and climate to reduce it by creating jobs and the involvement of the citizens in the productive work they can afford at the level of individuals and families.
So, In order to achieve their mission, vision and goals, they seek to put the needs of the target group in mind, and strengthen partnerships between the public and private sectors in order to support all their programs, and use them to build stronger, more efficient and more sustainable community networks to meet the needs of the target groups. Furthermore, they have to measure the level and impact of their programs to serve the beneficiaries, and organize projects and innovative, effective and more efficient programs to support the beneficiaries of the target group, build bridges of cooperation with other relevant national programs, and help and support communities most in need.
Based on the above, Al Maarefa University signed an agreement with Social Charity Fund to get educational grants for students who fall into the bottom 20% of household income group in the country.
Low Income student support
UM supports the students from low-income families to complete their studies, through different subsidize schemes. For example, UM has contract with a third party to provide low price menu food for student. UM have a contract with “qawafal alrushd” company to provide student with special discount for transportation, for the same purpose UM also has an agreement with Uber and Kareem companies. Al Maarefa University appointed “Alnadhir” law firm to assist the university staff and student including the low income.
· UM provides financial aid to local and international students to facilitate their study as well as other compensations related to food, transformation, accommodation, health and others.
· UM provides the students with financial support to help them start their businesses, through baying survives from them as a start-up financial assistance.
Subsidized Food support initiatives
· Qumi Specialty Coffee Roaster
Progression discount for students and faculty of 20%
Discount period: open
Al-Kami, Al-Sahafa District, Imam Saud bin Faisal Road
· The Doctors Breeze
– 15% off
– Medical supplies Medical supplies (dress, surgical cap, leeches, stethoscopes)
· Woman International Day
Your next coffee is free
March 8th and 9th 🌸
marking #يوم_المراه_العالمي
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College of Medicine Committee
· 20% Discount
· Lee More Pharmacy
– 10% discount for employees of Al-Maarefa University students from all disciplines
Conditions:
The university card must be presented when visiting the branch.
– Use the MCST2021 code when visiting the website.
· Lub_dup
A brand of Saudi stethoscopes that you can trust
What is better than hearing the heartbeat of Saudi hands?
In cooperation with the company, Lubbub offers a 15% discount for #جامعة_المعرفة 💯 students.
Discount code: MMSC
· Torch
– A Saudi brand for awesome and distinctive medical clothes and accessories .
20% discount for male and female students and employees of Al-Maarefa University.
Discount code: MMSC-MU
Starting from February 21st and ending on March 20th
· Cafe De Classe
-Enjoy the most delicious types of sweets and coffee
Hot and cold drinks
Location:
-Riyadh | Al Nakheel Mall || Al Hamra Mall
20% discount for male and female students and employees of Al-Maarefa University
The discount is only available in branches
· Crepe Affair
– Specializing in crepes, sweets and coffee 🍰🥞☕️
Hot and cold drinks ❤️
Delivery is available via applications 🚗
-the site:
* Riyadh | Al Nakheel Mall || Al Hamra Mall ❤️
🔴 20% discount for male and female students and employees of Knowledge University (in branches only)
· Emrjan Sutic 🇹🇷
– Serves you the best Turkish dishes in the traditional way 👌🏻
Delivery is available via applications 🚗
-the site:
Al-Nakheel Mall, Riyadh
* U Walk Complex, Riyadh
📌 Enjoy a 20% discount 🤩 (for male and female students and employees of Al-Maarefa University)
· Kofi Dunyasi
– It offers Turkish coffee and chocolate products
-families and individuals
-the site :
Al-Nakheel Mall, Riyadh
* And other cities
📌 Enjoy a 20% discount 🤩 (for male and female students of Al-Maarefa University)
· Concerto Café
After a long day at the art exhibition, some members of the committee went to the Concerto Café to benefit from the 20% discount for employees and students of Al-Maarefa University.
It’s your turn to benefit, just show your university card and the discount will come to you.
· Mazay Almaarefa Program
Is a program that provides UM student and staff with different discount in many different categories like transporting in Uber and Careem and many other categories. This service UM provided it to their stakeholders as free of charge.
Is a program that provides discount from different stores such as restaurants, sports shop and many different categories of store for all UM stakeholders. And this service the UM provide it for stakeholders as free of charge to enhance the environment and keep it more excited.
o Student books Uniforms and Discount: UM support student with books and uniforms by discounted the price for all UM student.
Offers and prices of Samaia Women’s Residence
Samaia’s residence welcomes all the daughters of this generous country and the generous residents who are based on his pure wealth and welcomes all the generous sisters from all over the Arab world and from all friendly countries in the hope that we will be happy to serve you by providing our services with decent hospitality and high quality.
* Services provided by Samaya Housing *
Strategic location in the middle of many universities and colleges at close time distances, airport, train station, transportation via highways, skilled drivers and convenient transportation.
* Having a 24-hour security guard for the building.
* Women’s management and full women’s supervision.
* Free DSL Internet.
* Free fixed phone connection + mobile in Saudi Arabia.
* Delivery from supermarket, pharmacy and laundry free of charge according to the schedules organized for it.
* Comprehensive transportation to and from the university throughout the days of < the tram. * <b119>
Transportation to and from the airport, train station, transportation throughout the days of the term and special rides at reduced prices
to all areas of Riyadh.
* Allocate a day a week for free shopping.
* Allocate a day per month for free promotion.
* Delivery to the hospital to God forbid + pharmacy + free cashier.
* We offer a reduced subscription service for detection and medicine rates with a hospital near the residence, with the resident paying the price later at the Women’s Housing Department when she returns or when she dies. * Deliver laundry orders and bring them free of charge. * Bring grocery orders free of charge. * Bring food orders from Delfery restaurants for free. *
We offer various meals on request with the hands of a Lebanese nationality. * We offer free food. * We offer a variety of meals as requested by a chef of Lebanese nationality. * We offer free food orders. For fountains and related to it in the hands of a woman of Lebanese nationality and a woman of Filipino nationality. *
Rent is available: by torme, two terms together, and the whole
year. * Room cleanliness is free of charge according to the schedules organized for this.
* Reception at the beginning of the year and farewell at the end of the year free of charge to the airport, train station and public transport. * There are a lot of services and pleasant surprises waiting for you*
As samaya women’s residence is pleased to announce the start of booking for students or visitors to Riyadh to work or attend various social events. As
well as booking (for the new year) and not to mention
the availability of booking in the system of the year, the term, the month and the program whatever its duration and the day as well
{(prices of suites and rooms of all kinds)}
(the prices mentioned for the term and the term we have five months). * Here we offer you ma’am many different options * { You have here eight options for suites of different sizes and styles to suit all tastes and desires} (models and prices of suites (swet) 1- Sweet consists of (room + bathroom + cafeteria) = 12000 riyals. 2- Sweet consists of (room + bathroom + kitchen) = 15,000 riyals. 3- Sweet consists of (room + lounge + bathroom + cafeteria + surface) = 17,000 riyals. 4- Sweet consists of (room + lounge + bathroom + kitchen)= 18,500 riyals. 5- Sweet consists of (2 rooms + lounge + bathroom + kitchen) = 24,000 riyals. 6- Sweet consists of (2 rooms + lounge +2 bathroom + kitchen) = 25,200 riyals. 7- Sweet consists of (3 rooms + lunge +3 bathroom + kitchen) = 33,000 riyals.
Al Maarefa Mazaya
Wateen Al Maarefa
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