Career and Money

New Debt Free Muslims Podcast: Interest Free Student Loans Program in the US

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March 10, 2014

Omar Usman

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This episode covers-

A Continuous Charity – Aimed at providing interest free student loans to students.

Education is a need, but very few people are actually working for interest-free relief for students.

Organization started with focusing on helping just one student to see if it was viable, and prove it to the community.

The challenge of getting people to pay you back.

How they went about raising funds to get the project started and award interest free student loans.

How merit plays a role in addition to financial need.

Challenges of scaling and growing this project.

Viewing your education as an investment.

The standard formula of 4 years high school, 4 years college just doesn’t work anymore.

Advice to students who feel there is no choice but to take out high amounts of student loans.

Links:

A Continuous Charity Homepage: http://continuouscharity.org/

A Continuous Charity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acontinuouscharity

Donate to A Continuous Charity: http://continuouscharity.org/donate/donate-now.html

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Omar Usman

Omar Usman is a founding member of MuslimMatters and Qalam Institute. He teaches Islamic seminars across the US including Khateeb Workshop and Fiqh of Social Media. He has served in varying administrative capacities for multiple national and local Islamic organizations. You can follow his work at ibnabeeomar.com.

1 Comment

BintKhalil

March 23, 2014 at 12:21 PM

Assalamu alaikum

Love this series. Really liked this episode.

Can you make the links clickable please?

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