"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)
...Mission Of Caring
One Ummah Foundation was founded in loving memory of Mustafa Saeed Rahman who died tragically 6 days before his 12th birthday.
The Rahman family endowed the One Ummah Foundation, whose name means: "One People", with the knowledge that the best way to honor Mustafa would be through the work of helping children worldwide.
During the first five years, One Ummah Foundation focused on improving educational infrastructure, including constructing new schools, refurbishing existing schools and providing needed materials for both new and existing schools (e.g. books, uniforms, food). During the previous two years, One Ummah Foundation has expanded the types of projects it funds.
In the future, One Ummah Foundation will deepen our relationship with the trusted contacts who ensure that donor funds are used efficiently and exclusively for the projects for which they are designated. We will continue to fund projects which increase the availability of education using a holistic approach which recognizes the importance of community’s economic and social development in educational accessibility and fulfillment.MICROFINANCE
The One Ummah Foundation is exploring how to become involved in microfinance projects. We believe that microfinance provides an important tool for helping families become economically self-sufficient. If parents can provide the basic necessities through their own businesses, they will be less likely to make their children work and more likely to send them to school.
The Grameen model using group lending at low interest rates provides a successful, debt-based model for microfinance. While One Ummah recognizes the contribution of type of microfinance, we will also encourage alternative structures of microfinance including those which take an equity- (rather than debt-) based approach.
