
No child, no matter how poor or underprivileged, should be denied access to quality education. All children should have equal opportunity to reach their full potential and strive to contribute to the betterment of their communities.
Back in 2007, a video was released in KATU ABC news profiling a school being built in Cambodia through American Assistance for Cambodia or the AAC. The video portrayed dozens of neatly dressed children, smiling over chalkboards, and learning from computers streamed by the school’s very own satellite dish. In this case, the fundraisers were American high school students from Overlook School in Washington who wanted to share the knowledge they had with those less fortunate. All the students needed to do was raise $15,000 dollars and they would build a school in their name, “Overlook” – 8646 miles (13,914 km) away in Cambodia. And what is extraordinary about this story is that the high school students did not stop fundraising for the Cambodian school. They hired teachers, purchased books, computers, and even traveled to Cambodia to be greeted as heroes from hundreds of Cambodian children.
The clip helped me to relate to the awesome donations from the creators of the Ummah Foundation who have funded a school in Cambodia The Mustafa Saeed Rahman School (#205) in memory of their deceased son. The ACC works with the Ummah Foundation to help those in need all over the world. With a fund of $24,000 there is the opportunity for schools like #205 to be further built and named after the benefactors.
The Ummah Foundation is acutely aware of the disparities between the rich and poor found in all parts of the world. The Ummah Foundation gives back to the community.







