"Ending the cycle", One Ummah on LO Review. (2/14/08)
2007 Annual board meeting (5/16/07)
ABC News feature on American Assistance for Cambodia (2/7/07)
Executive Summary Of 7th trip to Cameroon (9/13/06)
Blake Goud has joined OneUmmah as the Executive Director (9/1/06)
Elizabeth Bourgeois joins One Ummah Foundation (9/1/06)
Sri Lanka
Map source: Map of Sri Lanka
Population 20,926,315 Major Ethnic and Linguistic Groups Sinhalese 73.8%
Tamil 8.5%
Moors 7.2%Religions Buddhist 69.1%
Muslim 7.6%
Hindu 7.1%
Christian 6.2%Population Growth Rate 0.982% Median Age 30 Years Life Expectancy (Males; Females) 74.8 years (72.81; 76.88) Under Five Mortality (per 1,000) * 14 Ratio of Girls to Boys in Primary/Secondary Education * N/A GDP Per Capita (PPP) $4,700 Literacy (Males; Females) 90.7% (92.3%; 89.1%) Percentage With Access To Improved Water Source ** 79% Poverty Rate (% living on <$1 per day) * 5.6% Income Share Held By Lowest Quintile * 7.0% Income Share Held By Lowest Decile * 3.0% Source: Data from CIA World Factbook except that data marked with a “*”
indicate they are from the World Bank Group World Development Indicators
(WB-WDI) as of 2005 and “**” indicates they are from the WB-WDI as of 2004.ONE UMMAH PROGRAMS
One Ummah works with two organizations in Sri Lanka: Al Muslimaath, based in Colombo serving the entire country, and Baithul Khair Foundation, which is based and operates in Bibile (in Uva Province),
a village in Eastern Sri Lanka.Al Muslimaath is an association of Sri Lankan Muslim Women and Girls which provides assistance to people in need of assistance in a large number of areas.
Our support has concentrated on areas in which people are thrown into need due to external events like storms or the death of a spouse or parent. In addition, we provide funds to help students attend primary school, secondary school and university.Baithul Khair Foundation provides milk to widows and orphans, school uniforms to schoolchildren and assists with other needs in the community as they arise.
Neither organization depends solely on the funds provided by the One Ummah Foundation and a substantial portion of the funds they use come from other sources including sources within Sri Lanka.
In late 2007, Al Muslimaath and Baithul Khair Foundation will assist us in a pilot study of the feasibility of our equity-based microfinance model.
