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END CONFLICT BUILD A SCHOOL 100% 2010 donations helped MDF provide: 600 full scholarships 67,200 nutritious lunches 960 uniforms and shoes 100% DONATIONS GOES TO OUR WORK An education directly affects one’s chance to earn a living, allowing one to provide for their family. It also offers an alternative to joining extremist groups. MDF creates those opportunities. Zahid’s Story Zahid Khan is one of 5 siblings and an extended family of 13. With increased terrorism in their village, he was forced to discontinue his education and his father’s shop, the only source of the family income, was closed. Luck would bring this family to an area outside of Islamabad where starting a life with so little was incredibly challenging. They tried to enroll the children in several schools, but could not pay the enrollment fees or meet the entrance standards that require English and Urdu. Zahid was from a region that did not speak Urdu and he did not have enough previous education to learn English. In desperation, Zahid’s father enrolled him in an Islamic religious school, but after learning about the Marshall Direct Fund school nearby, they opted to attend this school instead. Now Zahid can speak and write Urdu and he and his siblings are all getting an education at one of Marshall Direct Fund’s schools.
Message From The Founder “Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.” – Hamilton Wright The whole world is watching as revolution spreads in the Middle East and South Asia. People are demanding change. They want freedom, jobs, civil liberties, and schools. They want opportunity for all, not just the privileged few. This hope for a better life is precisely what we see with the “everyman”, “everywoman”, and “everychild” we have the opportunity to work with in Pakistan. Drones attacked parts of northwest Pakistan on average every three days in 2010. As U.S. drones and Pakistan’s Army attacks northwestern regions, extremists move to urban areas of Pakistan to take cover among the masses. There they have combined forces with Punjabi extremists to wage war against civilians, policemen and politicians on the streets of major cities. In 2010 alone, terrorists murdered 2,913 Pakistani people and injured 5,824. The extremist groups continue to do most of their recruitment in the urban areas. The attempted attack in Times Square by Faisal Shahzad signals that Pakistani extremist groups’ ambitions may be growing. At our annual Aspen fundraiser at Shelly and Golda Friedstein’s beautiful home last summer, His Excellency Ambassador Husain Haqqani said, "What MDF is trying to do…will be the guarantee of our security. Young people can be brought up on the idea of hope. Every young Pakistani child who gets to go to school, gets an opportunity in life. This child becomes one more recruit denied to Al Qaeda and the Taliban." In 2010 we enrolled nearly 300 children in school, fed them, clothed them, and gave them hope. We improved relations between the people of Pakistan and the U.S. via Global Kid Connect, our partner classroom project that served over 100 children in the U.S. and Pakistan. We partnered with local NGO, IKI Foundation, to strengthen their vocational education program and will be working together to launch morel centers in 2011. The vocational training programs will focus on female entrepreneurs in the communities in which we work. We will provide these women with job skills, business training, and link them to financial services and markets with which they will be able to earn income and help lift their families out of poverty. A percentage of the profits from the products they retail will be dedicated to the schools and training centers to support long-term sustainability. I wish to take this moment to thank our supporters. You are game changers in the field of international security. Your mission is a challenging one, but you carry on knowing it is the only way to build a more just and secure world. As Hamilton Wright reminds us, all worthwhile achievements take place in a challenging environment. It is the challenge, and the human will to overcome it, that makes great achievements possible. Silbi Stainton President and Executive Director
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