News
OneUmmah on Dealmaker Middle East Magazine (4/02/2009)
Dealmaker Middle East (issue Feb/Mar 2009) features One Ummah Foundation on a one-page article under the title of "They are the Future". Please, read the PDF scanned page here: dealmaker_oneummah.pdf.
A New Pre-School in Sri Lanka (3/24/08)
We wish to inform you that we have completed the work of pre-school in Kanulwela. We are planning to commence the pre-school on April first 2008. 52 students have already registered for the admission.
We extend our sincere gratitude for all your support extended towards this project.
Many thanks and salaams,
Hassim Abdul Nasar
Baithul Khair Foundation
Bibile, Sri Lanka.
Some pictures of the new pre-school:
Please, contribute to this project here.
Dear all, (3/20/08)
One of the rising star of OneUmmah Foundation is a young journalist Ms Abida Anjum in Punjab Province in Faisalabad City. She has done a great job with very small resources to make a difference in the lives of so many children and other needy folks on the ground.
OneUmmah needs your help NOW. If everyone can get us $50 a month to few hundred a month we will be able to touch the lives of few thousand more children. TIME IS OF ESSENCE because each day that passes by without proper education is a loss to our whole universe.
How many of you are willing to say that I do care and here is my check or my pledge. This is what your help will do.
- 500 hundred dollars we can buy furniture for an Orphanage in Mexico.
- 10 dollars a month will pay for tuition for a poor kid in Pakistan/India/Bangledesh.
- 50 dollars a month will take care of room and board for a child in SriLanka orphanage.
- 20 dollars a month will buy ration for a poor elderly widow in Bibile SriLanka.
- 200 dollars will put a roof and repair a whole house/shack in the Cyclone Sidr area in Bangladesh.
- 25 dollars will buy the whole year supply of school books etc in Paksitan/India/Cameron etc.
Hope this information will enable you all to at least commit for 1 small project. CAN I COUNT ON YOUR HELP? Any questions please call me at 503-997-2007.
Sincerely,
Mohammad Saeed Rahman
One Ummah Foundation.
Some pictures from Ms Abida Anjum:
Please, place contributions here.
Dear Friends of the One Ummah Foundation (3/13/08)
We request your help in meeting the financial needs of some of our most exciting and worthy projects. These include supporting existing programs and schools through monetary funding for teacher salaries, textbooks, materials and building new schools.
In Faisalabad, Pakistan, a young teacher oversees a program where she serves children between the ages of 7 and 12. Children at her school receive not only an education, but the school provides free meals as well. We continue to support this teacher and others in similarly functioning programs. The Little Scholar School in Sukkur, Pakistan, was established with $5,000 and currently serves 50 children. The school was established by a couple who, while living in the U.S., saw the value of using a more inclusive teaching style, which is absent in most schools in Pakistan. We are expanding the outreach of this school and are currently trying to raise $7,500 to build a neighboring school for teenage girls.
The need for education is very great in these impoverished areas as is the risk to these children’s lives. In the seven countries that our programs serve (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan), per capita income is amongst the lowest in the world. With poverty at their doorstep, many parents have no choice but to send their children to work in factories and in the houses of their more affluent citizenry. Child labor continues to haunt countries where parents either cannot support the family or are too sick to work and thus the task of supporting the family falls on the shoulders of its youngest members.
One Ummah is now in its ninth year of helping children and families in underdeveloped countries end child labor and combat the effects of poverty and illiteracy. Our goal is to give children the opportunity to attend school at no cost to the families. With the help of trusted and local volunteers and contacts, we are able to develop programs as well as contribute to existing efforts that meet each community’s specific needs and concerns. In addition to building schools, we continue to support these schools, by sending the funds necessary to supply textbooks, teaching materials, and healthcare, many times contributing to the housing and nutrition of the families. At least 97% of our donations go directly to help the people we serve. We extend our efforts beyond the individual child, and assess ways to make education accessible for families and their children.
Money comes and goes. We give it so readily, we sometimes barely notice it is there before it is gone. In developing countries, where per capita income falls well below the U.S. poverty line, a donation of $150 will allow a child to attend school for one year while a donation of $12.50 will allow a child to attend school for one month.
In a world that is constantly at battle with itself and its neighbors, education remains the steadfast proponent of peace, recognition and understanding. Education, once established, will never leave and never lose. We thank you, as friends of our foundation, for your continued support and your past contributions. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of these children.
In closing, we request your help in meeting the financial needs of our newest projects, as well as existing ones like the schools in Faisalabad and Sukkur. Every dollar you contribute makes a world of difference. Please send your donation in the enclosed envelope.
With gratitude,
Mohammad S. Rahman
Founder
One Ummah Foundation
Please, place contributions here.
"Ending the cycle", One Ummah on LO Review (2/14/08)
Lake Oswego Review of Oregon features One Ummah Foundation. Please, read the article here: http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/ne...209200
2007
Annual board meeting (5/16/07)
The One
Ummah annual board meeting was held in Portland, Oregon and a new president,
vice president and secretary/treasurer were elected.
Barbara
Price, President
Tasneem Rahman, Vice President
The full
minutes of the meeting are available
online.
ABC
News feature on American Assistance for Cambodia (2/7/07)
ABC News
has a feature on a group of students from Washington State, U.S. who
raised money to build a school for students in rural Cambodia through
the American Assistance for Cambodia (founded by OUF Board Member Bernie
Krisher). Many of the students involved in the fundraising traveled
to Cambodia to see the results of their fundraising efforts.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2842786
Executive
Summary Of 7th trip to Cameroon from May 21st to June 30th, 2006 by
Pavla Zakova-Laney, President of EDUCARE-AFRICA (9/13/06)
1. On May
22nd, 2006 I arrived successfully in Yaounde, Cameroon. Emmanuel Sunjo
& 2 other gentlemen waited for me at the airport and drove me to
a rest house. The next day I met the US ambassador, his deputy and security
chief to make plans for my safe stay in Cameroon.
2. On May
31st, our former director’s services were finally terminated thanks
to a great lawyer, Mr. Sama Francis Asanga. On June 3rd I arrived in
Tatum. Fred Tume, a zookeeper at Yaounde ZOO, accompanied me all the
way from Yaounde and assisted me. He took 17 days off his work to serve.
3. Basic
school supplies for 65 best students from G.H.S. Tatum were purchased
at Kumbo and given during a prize giving ceremony on June 7th. Donated
clothes, and a few other donations were distributed to 17 students.
86 students received financial assistance for their immediate needs
such as school fees, G.C.E. registration fees, rent, kerosene, food,
school uniforms, shoes and transport back to their villages. 35 staff
members from G.H.S. Tatum received pens for encouragement. Six stop
watches were purchased for the physics department.
4. I met
with the new principal, Mr. Emmanuel Njei and the staff to brief them
on Gilbert’s termination and our plans. Students, staff and parents
were all very happy with the new principal, who has been working very
hard since he came to Tatum.
5. At this
time, since I had no one to work with, we were not accepting new applications.
I met with 96 students and some of their parents to inform them that
Gilbert was no longer our director and that the students chosen for
assistance who did not receive any support this year would be placed
on our priority list for the next academic year. They would be the first
ones to get assistance in September 2006 as soon as we have enough funds.
A printed note was sent to students from Ndu, G.S.S. Ntumbaw, G.S.S.
Mbu-warr and several other schools, which we could not reach during
my visit.
6. Emmanuel
Sunjo & I also met with our students from Yaounde & Buea Universities
and from schools around Bamenda to inform them about our former director’s
termination and our plans for the future.
7. A foundation
for a new Educare-Africa team was laid, thanks to Emmanuel Sunjo and
other caring Cameroonians. This summer, 2 new employees will be hired:
an administrative assistant, a female, who will be handling finances
and an executive field coordinator, who will assist the students. Whenever
possible, we would pay the school fees directly to the schools. We already
have established a board of 9 directors from Yaounde, Douala, Bamenda,
Kumbo & Tatum, who will oversee the operations in Cameroon. We will
have a new office location with time. We will open a bank account with
the Amity Bank in Cameroon to avoid high Western Union charges in the
future.
UPCOMING ASSISTANCE: We want to assist about 220 secondary/high
school students, around 40 high school graduates, who would like to
continue their education and about 35 university students. Approximately
$30,000 by the end of September 2006 would take care of these children’s
essential educational needs.
We want to avoid any challenges associated with volunteer work in Cameroon
and therefore both our new Cameroonian employees will be paid on regular
basis based on our contract with them. In addition, we will be renting
a small office. For these reasons, we will need a regular monthly income
to cover these necessary expenses.
Pavla Zakova-Laney,
Albany, July 7, 2006 Founder, President, Executive director &
Full-time volunteer of EDUCARE-AFRICA
One
Ummah Foundation founder joined the board of Council for Spiritual and
Ethical Education (6/19/05)
Mohammad
Rahman, a founder of One Ummah Foundation has been offered to serve
on the board of CSEE and has accepted the challenge.
To learn
more about the CSEE go to their website at: http://www.csee.org/
Planning
for another trip – Educare Africa (4/21/05)
Pavla is
planning for another trip to Cameroon this year leaving on May 18th
and returning on July 13th, 2005.
Thanks
to our Loving Universe and quite a few cheerful givers, she was able
to raise all the funds for the ticket ($2,360). Her goal is to raise
$6,000 for the trip. So far, we have $1,200.
During
her trip, she wants to purchase basic school supplies for many students
and some more high school textbooks, depending on how much funds would
be available.
In addition,
she would oversee building of a school library if we would get funding
from the Canadian High Commission in Cameroon, assist many students
with their basic school related needs, meet with parents & students
and visit students in 3-4 larger villages to inform them about our new
scholarship application.
Two Wellesley
College Book Awards will be presented to best female science students
from two different schools as well. It appears that she will be traveling
alone again.
To learn
more about this project click here.
New
Steps in the Milk Program (3/3/05)
This time
with the generous assistance of our friends and board members, we were
able to distribute more milk powder in the last month in Bibile, Sri
Lanka.
2220 packets,
(400 gms/ea) were distributed to around 375 children in the following
villages in Bibile, Sri Lanka: