General
Water Facts
IR: Water for Life Initiative
IR: Orphan Sponsorship Program
IR: Emergency Appeals
100

The largest desert in the world.

What is the Sahara Desert?

100

The amount of days a person survive without water.

What is three days?

100

The Islamic principle of ongoing charity that motivates people to donate water wells, especially on behalf of others or the deceased.

What is Sadaqah Jariyah?

100

The monthly cost to sponsor an orphan with Islamic Relief.

What is $90 a month? ($1080 the entire year).

100

As of 2024, the number of years Islamic Relief has been in existence and supported communities globally?

What is 40 years? (Since 1984).

200

Last year's Islamic Relief Charity Week theme.

What is Saving the Bees?

200

The name of the process where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere.

What is transpiration?

Note: Not evaporation because that only occurs on surfaces!

200

5 of the 25 countries that the Islamic Relief Orphan Sponsorship Program reaches.

What is Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kosova, Lebanon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Pakistan, Palestine (Gaza), Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen?

200

The names of 3 of 4 crisis zones that Islamic Relief supports through Orphan Sponsorship.

What is Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, and Sudan?

200

The number of hot meals the Islamic Relief team in Gaza has delivered as part of their daily read-to-eat hot meals initiative?

(Answer accepted to the nearest million)

What is 54 million?
300

Besides Water Charity, Orphan Sponsorship & Emergency Appeals, the name of another initiative that Islamic Relief contributes to. 

What is Ramadan Food Packs, OR Qurbani/Udhiyah, OR Eid Gift distributions, OR Evacuees/Refugee support, OR Health and medicine projects, OR, Education projects, OR Sheltering projects, OR Water/Sanitation Projects, OR Livelihood projects, OR Food Security Projects?

300

The amount of water the average person need daily to survive.

What is 3 Litres?

300

The donation amount for a standalone well.

NOTE: You have a limited amount of time to check the website for this answer!

What is $1,500?
300

In 2024, Islamic Relief launched a program called Pathways to Prosperity. The aim of this initiative and who it was targeted towards.

What are essential skills for older orphans as they enter adulthood?

300

Name three specific emergency appeals that Islamic Relief provided urgent care and aid for, in 2024?

What is Afghanistan Earthquake Appeal, Lebanon Emergency Appeal, Gaza Emergency Appeal, Bangladesh Floods Appeal, Sudan Emergency Appeal?

400

The Middle Eastern river often referred to as the "Lifeblood of Mesopotamia".

What is the Tigris River?

400

The amount of people worldwide that lack access to safe drinking water.

Options:

A. 35 million

B. 1 billion

C. 785 million

D. 475 million

What is 785 million? (Option D)

400

Besides wells and hand pumps, other ways Islamic Relief supports and sustain life communities with a safe and reliable source of water.

What is Rainwater harvesting, or Solar-powered borehole, or Water desalination, or Flood resistant hand pumps, or Rainwater storage, or Water ponds, or Water trucking?

400

The day recognized as World Refugee Day.

What is June 20 (2001)?

400

In addition to food and shelter, the unique form of aid that Islamic Relief provides to address mental health in disaster zones.

What is Trauma Counseling and Psychosocial Support?

500

The city nicknamed the “City of Canals” due to its extensive waterway system.

What is Venice, Italy?

500

Percentage of the Earth's total water that is actually drinkable? (Exact answer)

What is 0.5%?

500

A disease that is caused by lack of access to safe water.

What is Cholera, or Typhoid fever, or Dysentery, or Trachoma, or Malnutrition, or Hepatitis A, or Polio, or Giardiasis, or Dehydration, or Schistosomiasis, or Roundworm, or Malaria, or Dengue fever?

500

The names of the top 3 countries where the most orphans are sponsored.

What is Palestine, Yemen and Mali?

500

The name of a city in each of these countries in which Islamic Relief is on the ground providing essential humanitarian assistance, especially amid natural disasters or crises.

In Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen.

What is Kabul, Herat, Bamyan, Nangarhar, Balkh, or Baghlan in Afganistan?

What is Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, or Homs in Syria?

What is Khartoum, Blue Nile, North Kordofan, Central Darfur, Gedaref, Sennar, Al Jazirah, or Port Sudan in Sudan?

What is Sana’a, Dhamar, Amran, Aden, Taiz, Hodeida, Sa'ada, Marib, or Raymah in Yemen?