World Food Program’s Global School Lunch Feeding Program: $500,000/2007. Mosaic Foundation awarded its tenth Major Beneficiary Grant to the World Food Program and hosted its Tenth Anniversary Benefit Dinner May 9, 2007 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. The Honorary Chair of the event was Her Excellency Hunaina Al Mughairy, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman. Ambassador Al Mughairy is the first female ambassador to represent an Arab country in Washington D.C. Guests heard from Guest Speaker HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein about the collaboration between the Foundation and the WFP. This project, Global School Lunch Feeding Program, aims to provide school-age children in some of the world’s poorest regions with the most humble of incentives to attend school: the promise of one meal a day they might not otherwise receive. The project will feed nearly 16000 children and provide take-home rations for some of their family-members for two school years.
Sesame Mosaic: Education, a Two-Way Street: $600,000/2006. Mosaic Foundation, hosted its Ninth Annual Benefit Dinner May 9, 2006 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. First Lady Laura Bush was the Honorary Chair of this evening. Guests heard from Guest Speaker HM Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan about the Foundation’s collaboration with Sesame Workshop. This project, Sesame Mosaic:Education, a Two-Way Street, aims to educate pre-school children in the Arab world on mutual respect as well as focusing on basic literacy and math through video segments. Sesame Mosaic will also introduce and educate American children about the cultures of children in the Arab world through the creation of videos for distribution in the US markets.
Children’s National Medical Center: $750,000/2005. Children’s Mosaic’s Telemedicine Initiative: Linking Children’s National Medical Center to the Arab World. Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC), located in Washington, DC, is among the top ten pediatric hospitals in America. Its mission is to care for children and to prepare pediatric caregivers to practice outstanding pediatric medicine in the 21st century. For more than 134 years, CNMC has provided quality care, cutting-edge research into pediatric diseases and disabilities, and health education to children and families in the metropolitan Washington region, nation, and around the globe. The Mosaic’s Tele-Medicine Initiative: Linking CNMC to North Africa will establish an international tele-education network beginning in Morocco for pediatric medical specialties of concern to health care providers, patients, and families. For over 20 years, CNMC has been a leader in exploring the use of telecommunications technology to improve networks of information and access to quality specialty care. Many children in North Africa fail to receive accurate diagnoses or treatment because they have health conditions that are poorly understood or difficult to treat in the region. The tele-health network set up by this project, which will link to a university hospital in Morocco, will encourage and enable more immediate transfer and assessment of pediatric health information, using technology to obtain diagnoses or treatment recommendations from more developed countries. This will result in more efficient health care intervention.
Academy of Educational Development (AED): $750,000/2004. AED, a leader in education reform in the developing world, has since 1961 helped enhance the self-reliance of more than 100 million people worldwide by connecting them to education, opportunities, and resources. Mosaic’s grant will be used in three selected Arab countries: Egypt, Djibouti, and Yemen to improve educational opportunities for children, particularly girls, to allow them to become more productive members of their societies. The project will focus on designing and delivering in-service teacher training and low cost materials based on the following principles: a) an interactive teaching approach; b) a gender-sensitive teaching methodology and educational materials; c) an equitable school and classroom; d) a problem solving teaching process; e) a relevant and practical teaching/learning process; and f) a needs and context driven teaching-learning process
Smithsonian Institution: $225,000/2004. The Mosaic Foundation was the principal sponsor of the exhibition Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, May 8 – October 17, 2004. The approximately 90 objects from the collection of the Hispanic Society of America - the finest collection of Islamic art from Spain in the United States- include ceramics, textiles, maps, coins, manuscripts, and other examples of the enduring artistic and cultural legacy of Al-Andalus period. The 2004 Al-Andalus Festival, in which this exhibition plays a central role, is the Mosaic Foundation’s attempt to bring about a better awareness and appreciation of the interweaving of the historic, artistic and intellectual cultures of the Arab and the Western Worlds.
Grameen Foundation USA: $900,000/2003. Grameen Foundation USA was established in 1997 to advance the work and philosophy of the Grameen Bank and thereby design and support microfinance programs worldwide. Grameen Foundation USA and the Mosaic Foundation worked together to create the Mosaic Fund for the Arab World. The Fund supports the establishment and growth of poverty-focused microfinance programs in the area by providing the necessary financial support, training, and technical assistance to microfinance institutions in up to four Arab countries including Egypt and Morocco. The Grameen Foundation is in the process of performing further needs assessment on other potential microfinance institutions in other parts of the Arab world.
United Nations Foundation: $1.5 Million/2001. The Mosaic Foundation and the United Nations Foundation joined as partners to support the Adolescent Program Initiative to combat AIDS and to improve the quality of health services in Africa. The Mosaic Foundation’s support went to four projects in four countries, South Africa, Angola, Lesotho, and Swaziland:
Adolescent Program Initiative in Southern Africa: Headed by UNAIDS, this program facilitates the sharing of experiences and promotes effective country and sub-regional monitoring and evaluation.
AIDS Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Youth in Angola, Lesotho, and Swaziland: Implemented by UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, and WHO, these projects aim to ensure adolescent girls’ access to appropriate health care and to increase the capacities of communities in providing education and voluntary testing and counseling, including care and support in order to reduce the prevalence of AIDS among this group.
Save the Children US: $790,000/2000. The Mosaic Foundation joined Save the Children in the Middle East to support and enhance the status of children and women and to better enable them to make measurable positive impact within their families, communities, and societies. Contributions from Mosaic helped:
Address youth needs in Lebanon and Jordan: Gave youth the tools necessary to think about their future and successfully enter the job market. Provided youth and youth service providers with knowledge of youth development, life skills, and facilitation skills.
Support school health and nutrition projects in Egypt: Organized and ran mobile health caravans in five villages. Improved visual acuity for 770 children.
Respond to the crisis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Purchased and distributed medical supplies to key hospitals. Distributed humanitarian aid packages of food and medicines. Held planning workshops and psychosocial support programs for the community
National Race for the Cure®/Susan Komen Foundation: $300,000/1999. This grant supported programs for breast cancer research, screening and education programs in the Washington, DC area and for the preparation of a culturally effective and acceptable Arabic breast health booklet and breast cancer information for Arab communities
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital: $500,000/1998. This grant helped establish a fund to treat patients from Arab countries through sites in Arab countries or as patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. The Mosaic Foundation’s fund defrayed the cost of treatment for 25 patients.
