Sumaya Mohammed Al Maimani launched the ‘Dinarian’ project when she was a student at Kuwait University. What started as a simple idea turned into a global educational project.

The project started when Al Maimani wrote in her school newspaper, urging her fellow students to donate only two dinars per month to build schools for people in underprivileged areas around the world. It grew on October 10, 2010 when Al Maimani established a partnership with the International Islamic Charity Organization, the biggest charity organization in Kuwait.

Since the project launched, students and residents in Kuwait came together in large numbers to steadily donate two dinars a month. With their support, the project successfully established and opened five schools around the world, within only five years. The Darain Institute, which has 900 students, was opened in China, three schools were opened in Indonesia, with a total of 1,100 students, and one school, with 500 students, was opened in Sudan. The organisation is currently working on finishing the sixth school, in Albania, which will be open to primary and intermediate-level students.

The young people involved in the project, most of whom are university students, have shown great ambition and dedication to the cause of providing education to the underprivileged. For the past several years, Al Maimi has worked in the Public Relations department of the International Islamic Charity Organization. She has organized several charity trips to lay the foundation stone, and open, schools across the world, and to offer training courses and workshops for other students interesting in volunteering.

‘Dinarain’ has proven that a few dinars, from many people, collected over many years, can be used to spread goodness and the spirit of hope. It is a reminder that hope always exists in the hearts and minds of all people who believe even a small gesture can make a better tomorrow.