The Akhlaquna Award was established by Qatar Foundation (QF) in 2017 to recognize members of Qatar’s community who demonstrate social awareness, compassion, and thoughtfulness toward others, improve society through the example they set, and become leaders and agents of change. The award aims to emphasize the importance of the four values of mercy, honesty, generosity, and tolerance. This year, QF also launched Akhlaquna Junior, designed to honour school students who uphold the morals and values that Akhlaquna seeks to promote and cultivate.

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, presented the winners of the special Akhlaquna Day ceremony in Education City. The third cycle of the event highlighted the winners of the Akhlaquna Award and the Akhlaquna Junior Award.

The Akhlaquna Award went to “Yes, I Can,”, developed by Noora Hassen AL-Maslamani, Abdullah Ahmed Al-Sada, Fahad Saeed Al-Hamad, Roqayya Khan Khan, Ayub Mohammed Janahi, Ibrahim Aly El Feky, Abdullah Mohamed Al-Ishaq, Shahed Salem Al-Dosari, Nada Juma Aldos, and Ibrahim Yousef Dorzadeh.

The student-led initiative aims to highlight the active role and contribution of people with disabilities. Organising multiple campaigns – such as ‘With Thanks’, highlighting the role of sanitary workers, and ‘Our Land’, designed to promote environmental protection in Qatar.

“I would like to thank Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser for this valuable award,” said Al-Hamad. “It has great meaning for us, and we’ve participated to show our role and pay something back to our country.”

Al-Sada said, “I feel very proud to have met Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. It is a great honour to win this award, and I hope we can live up to the responsibility.”

Other projects shortlisted for the Akhlaquna award and also recognized at the ceremony were Life Engineers, developed by Hamad Abdulla Aljumaily to nurture future leaders aged from 3-18 years who embody moral values, through consultations, workshops, travel opportunities, and summer programs; and Sign Language Translator, created by Noora Talib Almarri and Khalood Zaid Almarri, an application that helps sign language users communicate their needs by translating their hand movements through a glove equipped with motion sensors.

The winners were decided by public voting and an expert jury, comprising Dr Jassim Sultan, Director of Wijdan Cultural Center; Dr Emad El-Din Shahin, Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a QF member; and Professor Mabrouk Zeid Elkheir, Director of the National Center for Research in Islamic Sciences and Civilization, Algeria.

The Akhlaquna Junior winners for the Grades 1-3 category were Fatima Faisal Al-Thani of Qatar Academy Al Wakra, Hemyen Hamad Al-Kuwari of Athaayen Girls Primary School, and Faisal Abdalla Al-Shahwani of Ali bin Abdullah Model School.

In the category for students in Grades 4-6, Fahad Masoud Nabina of Qatar Academy Al Wakra, Abdulla Rafea Al-Ahbabi of Ali bin Abdullah Model School, and AlHanouf Hassan AlEmadi of Qatar Academy Doha were named the winners, with the awards in the Grades 7-9 category going to Fatima Saad Mohammed Almohannadi of Qatar Academy Al Khor, Mariam Ameen Abdalaa Mohamed Abdalaa Ameen of Moza bint Mohammed Preparatory School, and Bhagath Krishnan of Birla Public School.

Dr Mohammed Nowaimi Al Hajri, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Qatar University, said “We also must be aware of the importance of the pivotal role of families and societies in bringing up our youth in an environment that is built on honesty and faithfulness, through our words and actions, so that this is reflected in the souls of our children. This responsibility is embodied in Akhlaquna and Akhlaquna Junior, with the goal of strengthening the role of society in cultivating honesty as a way of life for our youth.’ Apart from attendants present at the event, viewers tuned in to watch the live event virtually.  

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