Mariyam Saina wins the RYSE Ranmeeba Award 2024–2025
The RYSE Ranmeeba Award — introduced by RYSE and presented every year to the best all-round student at Sh. Maaungoodhoo School — has been awarded again this year. This…
Est. Sh. Maaungoodhoo · Maldives · 2022
Empowering
Empowering
every young
islander to rise.
RYSE is a youth-led NGO using sport, learning and community work to unlock the potential of the next generation — starting right here on our island.
Recreation
Youth
Education
Community
Empowerment
Futsal Foari Rashah
(01) Who we are
Read our story
We started with a simple idea: an island is only as strong as its young people. So we give them reasons to show up — a pitch, a classroom, a cause.
RYSE — Recreation for Youth & Society Empowerment — was registered as an NGO on 21 December 2022 in Sh. Maaungoodhoo, in the north of the Maldives. We are run by volunteers who grew up here and want the island's next generation to have more than we did.
In just a few years we have staged the island's biggest futsal tournament, rewarded top students every year, organised career guidance, put clean drinking water into our mosques and school, and rallied the community behind people in crisis far from home.
(02) What we do
Five ways we
Five ways we
show up for Maaungoodhoo
From the futsal ground to the school hall, every programme we run is designed with — and for — the people of our island.
i.
Sports & Recreation
The RYSE Futsal Challenge, kits for island teams, travel support for athletes.
ii.Education & Youth
RYSE Ranmeeba Award, school prizes, book-list service and career guidance.
iii.Community & Environment
Water purifiers, island clean-ups, Nala Veshi and care packs for families.
iv.Ramadan & Faith
The RYSE Roadha Ihya Programme — forums, prayer camps and Coffee with Sheikh.
v.Humanitarian Relief
Island-wide appeals and solidarity walks for Palestine, Libya and Morocco.
(04) Impact so far
Small island.
Small island.
Real numbers.
A snapshot of what our volunteers, partners and community have achieved together since registration.
16
sponsors & partners backing RFC 2026
13
matches played & streamed at RFC 2026
4,563
Rufiyaa raised in two days for Libya & Morocco
3
water purifiers in our mosques & school
(05) Latest from RYSE
News from
News from
the island
That's a wrap — thank you, sponsors
To every sponsor and partner of RFC 2026: you helped turn our vision into reality.
Champions — Bionic! Unbeaten from first whistle to last
Game after game, not a single loss. Bionic dominated the RYSE Futsal Challenge 2026 and beat MAID 5–1 in a repeat of the 2024 final. Ali Haafiz was crowned King of the…
Backed by people who believe in the island
Maaungoodhoo Council
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sports & Fitness
Dhiraagu
Nukuthaa
Khidhumaiy
Jolt.mv
Era Records
RIM Craft
SR JEM
Jamiyyath Salaf
Maaungoodhoo School PTA