WHITEHALL MSA
Whitehall High School · Est. 2025
The Muslim Student Association is where Muslim students at Whitehall find their people. It is also open to anyone who wants to learn something, help with something, or just be part of something good.
Whitehall MSA · 2025–26
What this is
Being Muslim at school can feel isolating in a way that is hard to explain to people who have never felt it. This is the answer to that. The food is halal, the prayer times are understood, and showing up is the entire requirement.
Just come to the meetings. That is the whole ask.
No dues, no application, no tryout, and nobody keeping score of how often you turn up.
The year ahead
Two meetings every month, every month, from September through June. Food is out before anyone arrives. Half of each one is planning what is next and half is just being in a room together. Some of them are nothing but food and games, and those are usually the ones people remember. A club people forget about between meetings is a club that quietly dies in February.
Last January the club sold $20 Palestine jerseys at both Jumu’ah prayers at MALV and sold out, with 100% of the money donated. That is the bar. Treat sales at school roughly once a month, and seasonal movie nights at the masjid that bring in the real money. Every fundraiser is labelled before it launches: either it funds the club or it goes to charity, and it never quietly changes after. At least one full drive a year goes out the door entirely, and the running total is posted to the whole club so everyone sees every dollar.
Ramadan lands in February this year, which means a full month where the club has to be somewhere to be rather than one more thing to keep up with. Weekly programming, prayer space sorted with the school in advance, a community iftar with families and the wider school invited, and an Eid celebration to close it. For students whose Eid usually passes at school like an ordinary Tuesday, this is the whole point.
An end-of-year day trip funded entirely by what we raised, not by the school and not out of anyone’s pocket. Members vote on the destination, so it is the club’s trip rather than leadership’s idea. The club covers the bus outright and you pay a small amount for your own food. If that is a problem for you it gets covered quietly. And if the money is not there by the deadline it does not happen, which everyone knows from day one so nobody gets promised something that evaporates in April.
Every single day
You do not have to skip it, hide it, or figure out where to go. Dhuhr is prayed every day from 1:15 to 1:35 in the auditorium, and it has been for a while now.
Pick up a prayer form from the Main Office once, and after that you just go. That is it. For a lot of people this is the single most useful thing the MSA has ever set up, and you do not have to come to a meeting or join anything to use it.
Worth knowing
Whitehall requires 12 hours of community service to graduate. Most people put it off until senior year and then panic. Work a fundraiser table, help set up a movie night, come to a community service day, and every hour gets logged and signed by our General Manager.
Setting up and running one movie night is most of an afternoon. Do three or four things with us across a year and the requirement is finished without you ever thinking about it again.
You get the hours. We get the help. Nobody has to pretend that is not a good deal.
MALV · January 2026
What we have already done
$20 Palestine jerseys, sold at both Jumu’ah prayers at MALV, with 100% of the money donated. They went in a day. That is the bar now.
The point of all of it
We look out for each other. That is the whole club.
Everything else — the fundraisers, the trip, the meetings, the prayer room — is only what that looks like in practice.
Come through
No dues, no application, no commitment. Join the group chat so you know when things are happening, then come to a meeting whenever you want.
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