1. Pick an amount and donate.

2. Your donation lands directly into a secure account owned by our partner charity.

3. Your donation is grown in an ethical/halal way. This means that the money you donated is invested in halal-certified funds, made up of real estate and companies all around the world.

4. Every year the profits made from the growth of funds are distributed to the causes that save lives, while the principal (the original amount donated) stays invested to continue multiplying your donation.

5. In your dashboard, you can access your impact report that shows how your donation was distributed and the difference it made.

Investments are spread through halal-certified funds that invest globally and across industries to minimize the risk and ensure that the eggs are never in one basket.

These funds invest in public companies, real estate, and other instruments with the highest standards for both stability and performance.

Oxford Majlis and Afterfund do not provide investment advice or services to donors, but rather the waqf funds are grown with institutional standards for investing based on the risk tolerance and cause they are investing for.

Backed by 50,000 hours of research, Saving Lives fund is an evidence-based fund that perpetually saves the most lives per £ with your single donation.
For example, spending 10£ towards a traditional charity can provide ~5 meals.
But spending 10£ could also buy ~10 Vitamin A supplements that can save a child’s life in Kenya.
Or it could buy malaria nets that prevent this deadly disease from which 14,500 children die every year.
The Saving Lives Fund builds on this approach and distributes the profits to effective organisations such as Helen Keller International, Against Malaria Foundation and New Incentives, organizations that use the evidence of prominent researchers on how to do most good. This way, your donation perpetually support causes that are optimized to save most lives per £, while you track the impact you are making on your dashboard.

Math time! Let’s say you donate $1000, and that $1000 is used to continuously provide Vitamin A supplements for children in Kenya.

On average, in the past 30 years, the market grew 10% per year.

So after 1 year, that $1000 grows to $1100.

Part of the profits are taken to buy the Vitamin A supplements, and the other part stays together with the initial donation to continue multiplying and producing more supplements.

For example, we buy supplements for $50 and reinvest $50.

So, we start year 2 with $1050, and after another year, that grows to $1155.

Now, we can distribute even more supplements!

Every year, more and more.

This is called compounding and it’s one of the most powerful traits of investing.

If we repeat this process over and over again, during an average lifetime (77 years), you provide ~33x more meals than with your traditional donation.

Just like a planted palm tree might not give yields during a dry year, the same can happen with waqf donations during global crises as well.

However, this usually happens in short periods.

Long term, the market has historically always grown as the world economy develops and grows. Let’s take a look at the market in the past 20 years:



As you can see, during the COVID-19 crisis, the market went down, but it quickly recovered and grew even more.

When you are donating to a waqf, you don’t want to look short term - you want something that actively creates good deeds for you LONG TERM, during your lifetime, and even beyond.

Afterfund is a platform that provides digital infrastructure to put all this on autopilot. They partner with charities all around the world to create waqf funds for different causes. Oxford Majlis partnered with Afterfund to offer one of their funds to our community.