The 100-Day Program is a no-return, no-visitation program for a period of three months, aimed at helping students adapt to life at school. However, visits are still permitted for parents whose children may be homesick, unwell, or in case of urgent and important matters.
As children in the transitional age from elementary to junior high school, 12-year-olds are no longer considered very young. Even so, they may still struggle to detach from the comfort and familiarity of their homes (homesickness).
If within 1 to 2 months students are allowed to go home, their stories to parents are usually dominated by feelings of longing for their family — missing their parents, craving their mother’s cooking, and sometimes citing less critical reasons like missing their pet cat, among others.
Therefore, the *100-Day Program* was initiated to help students build strong friendships at the Ma’had, adapt to their rooms, classrooms, shared bathrooms, and engage in collective activities for 24 hours a day.
Through this program, students are expected to develop a sense of security, comfort, and become accustomed to the Islamic morals and etiquette practiced in the boarding school. This sense of peace and noble character will later support them in studying and acquiring beneficial knowledge.
As a proven program, the *100-Day Program* often transforms students' desire to return home into a sense of belonging at the school. Many even memorize *Matan Tuhfatul Athfal* (a foundational text on Tajwid rules) by Shaykh Sulaiman Al-Jamzuri during this period.