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Organization: Kashmir Family Aid
Organization Description: This organization, established in response to the 2005
earthquake, assists children in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir who were displaced by the
earthquake. The primary goal is to counter poverty in the region by providing secular
education to quake -affected children. Since its inception, the program has partially
supported 6 private schools and about 1,200 students. Funds have also been provided to
destitute and widowed women.
Project Name: Project Pakistan
Project Description: These funds will be used to purchase 8 computers for Project
Pakistan. This program is an exchange between students at Redmond schools and Nilore
Model School located in Nilore, Pakistan. The program is being coordinated with the
Redmond School District in three fifth grade classes. Redmond students will learn about
Nilore and Pakistan while Pakistani students will learn about Oregon and the United
States. Then the classes will begin correspondence, first as a group and eventually on an
individual basis. Meanwhile, fundraising will be undertaken to purchase computers and
chairs for the Pakistani students. This project is intended to teach Redmond students
about a completely different culture through direct interaction.
Project Period: November 17, 2008 — June 1, 2009
Amount of Request: $2,500
Previous Grants: None
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Deschutes County Board of Commissioners
1300 NW Wall St., Bend, OR 97701-1960
(541) 388-6570 - Fax (541) 385-3202 - www.deschutes.org
DESCHUTES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND
DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION
Direct Application to:
Commissioner Tammy Baney
Commissioner Dennis R. Luke
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Amount of Request:
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On a separate sheet, please briefly answer the following questions:
1. Describe the applicant organization, including its purpose, leadership structure, and activities.
2. Describe the proposed project or activity.
3. Provide a timeline for completing the proposed project or activity.
4. Explain how the proposed project or activity will impact the community's economic health.
5. Identify the specific communities or groups that will benefit.
6. Itemize anticipated expenditures*. Describe how grant funds will be used and include the
source and amounts of matching funds or in-kind contributions, if any. If the grant will
support an ongoing activity, explain how it will be funded in the future.
Attach:
Proof of the applicant organization's non-profit status.
• Applicant may be contacted during the review process and asked to provide a complete line item budget.
Amount Approved: By: Date:
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Commissioners Mike Daly, Dennis Luke and Tammy Melton
Deschutes County Administration
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Bend, OR 97701-1960
Dear Commissioners,
Greetings! This is Christopher Stollar with Kashmir Family Aid, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
based in Bend.
Who We Are
Founded by longtime Bend resident Sam Carpenter, KFA assists children in Pakistan and
Azad Kashmir who were
displaced by the 2005
earthquake.
The quake killed at least
73,000, left 3 million
homeless and destroyed
thousands of schools. Our
primary goal is to counter
poverty in the region by
providing secular education
to quake -affected children.
No politics. No religion.
Since our inception in 2005,
we have partially supported six private schools and about 1,200 students. We have also
provided cash to dozens of widows and destitute women.
Our Project
We are requesting $2,500 to purchase eight computers for Project Pakistan, an e-mail
exchange program between the Redmond School District and the Nilore Model School in
Nilore, an extremely illiterate and impoverished village outside Islamabad, Pakistan's
capital city.
Most kids in the area don't know how to read, and about 98 percent of mothers are
illiterate. While some parents send their children to local government schools, they have
a high dropout rate.
These students currently have no means of learning how to use a computer — an essential
skill now for any Pakistani who wants to leave the impoverished rural areas and get a
living -wage job. Right now, female literacy in Kashmir villages is just 3 percent. More
than 70 percent of females in Pakistan can't read at all, let along use a computer. If these
students can get computers, they will be able to e-mail children from Redmond schools.
Much of the foundation for this has already been set up through the Redmond School
District, which just hired Nathan Munoz to connect students with local nonprofits. Mr.
Munoz is working with us right now to set up the e-mail exchange program between
three fifth grade classes and the Pakistani students. We are also working on a similar
project with Susie Lucas from Highland Magnet School in Bend.
Below is an overview of our project, which is a partnership between Kashmir Family
Aid, the Redmond School District, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Oregon and the
Nilore Model School in Pakistan. In addition, we also just received support from the City
of Bend, which has agreed to move forward on a sister city relationship in Pakistan. The
councilors have not formally voted, but they unanimously agreed at their Oct. 13 work
session to proceed with this partnership — especially in light of the e-mail exchange
program.
"Project Pakistan will connect Redmond students with Pakistani children through a
modern-day pen -pal program. Redmond boys and girls will start by learning about a
completely different culture literally on the other end of the world that has almost no
Western influence and a female literacy rate of just 3 percent in some villages. Then, they
will engage those children through e-mails, Web cameras and hand-written letters. The
goal is to encourage Redmond students to think outside themselves by leading a tangible
project. Project Pakistan will give your child:en a sense of pride and ownership, help
them learn about world events in a hands -:,n way, teach them how to communicate
clearly and simply with a foreign culture 12 time zones away, and provide them with
practical computer skills. They will never be the same."
Specifically, we will have between 20 and 25 fifth -grade children (ages 9 to 11)
interacting with an equal number of Pakistani students. There will be different phases to
this project, but here is a general timeline:
❖ The Pakistani students start by learning about Oregon and the United States, while
Redmond children learn about Nilore and Pakistan, including their customs, food,
religion and culture.
❖ The Pakistani students, as a group, send one e-mail to the Redmond children, as a
group, introducing themselves and asking whatever they want. Redmond, as a
group, will respond with one e-mail.
❖ Both groups do the same with a hand-written letter.
❖ Meanwhile, the Redmond School District will hold several fundraisers to buy the
Pakistani students computers and chairs. Eventually, the goal is to pair each one
of our Redmond students with one of their students, and they will e-mail back and
forth using a list of questions that we all come up with together. Mrs. Lucas from
Bend -La Pine Schools already held a fundraiser in 2006 that raised about $3,000.
The Benefits
Many of the Redmond students Munoz works with have low test scores and come from
broken, low-income families. He sees Project Pakistan as a way of boosting these
children's self-esteem by giving them a charitable task to strive for that encourages them
to think outside themselves and focus on other students' problems. Once that and
additional mentoring happens, Munoz believes these Redmond students' test scores will
begin to improve. In addition, this project will:
❖ Give Redmond students a sense of pride and ownership with a project
❖ Teach children how to think outside themselves
❖ Encourage students to take the initiative and learn to supervise a project
❖ Help children learn about and research world events
Teach students how to communicate clearly and simply with a completely
different culture on the other end of the world that has almost no Western
influence
❖ Help children learn how to use Microsoft Office programs, e-mail, Web
cameras and other technology
❖ Teach students some basic phrases of Urdu, Pakistan's native language
This project will also benefit Pakistani students. Redmond children will get to engage
with a Third World country that has almost no Western influence. In addition, we have
spoken in-person with several other Pakistani teachers, who specifically said that they
want their students to learn how to e-mail and interact with Oregon children. One of the
teachers, Nadia, says her students have never met a Westerner — let alone an American.
Often, Pakistani children have only one option to the private secular schools we support —
an Islamic fundamentalist Madrassa school. Some Madrassa schools teach militant jihad
to young children who will ultimately take paid jobs as jihadists once they become
teenagers. This is attractive to many of these impoverished children who lack skills: Jobs
are scarce and jihadist "jobs" pay four to six times as much as what can be earned in
manual labor. Not many westerners understand that jihadists are literally holding highly
paid jobs.
While setting up this e-mail exchange program will not pour money into Deschutes
County's economy, it will encourage a cultural exchange of ideas and values that is
essential to educating our children in Bend about the larger world around them.
The Budget, Details and Timeline
Our anticipated expenditure is simply $2,500.
Eight basic computers cost $3,000, and Munoz plans to have his classes raise the extra
$500. In addition, the Redmond students also plan to raise $1,200 that pays for a
teacher's salary for an entire year. The Pakistani school will cover additional computer
maintenance, software upgrades and Internet card usage.
This is a one-time donation; no continuing funds are necessary.
Upon receipt of the county's donation, we will immediately contact Mubarik Ahmad, our
trusted contact in Nilore who is Western -educated and speaks fluent English. He will
make sure the county's money goes toward these eight specific computers within one
month of receiving the grant. We anticipate the e-mail program to start up no later than
six weeks after your donation.
We have bullet-proof methodologies for making sure the money you donate is spent
exactly how we promised. We always allow donors to follow their money and see how it
is spent. We will post photos online of the students using these computers and, if
interested, even take donors to Pakistan to meet the children and teachers—and see the
schools for themselves. Sam has been to Pakistan six times now.
Thank you for considering our request. For more information, go to
www.kashmirfamily.org. You may also contact Kashmir Family Aid Director
Christopher Stollar at 541-385-1970 or chriss(a,kashmirfamily.org. Please let us know
what the next step is, and we will follow up with a phone call.
Sincerely,
Christopher Stollar
Nathan Munoz –
"Project Pakistan will encourage Central Oregon residents to think beyond their own
lives filled with lattes, movies and other material comforts. It will help locals remember
that suffering exists in this world – and that we can do something about it, that we can be
the change."
Mubarik Ahmad
"Project Pakistan is a brilliant idea. When I broke the news to our students and teachers,
they were thrilled ... Almost all students at Nilore haven't had a chance to see a
Westerner in person, let alone interacting with him or her. Such isolation breeds fear and
suspicion of others culture, values and beliefs. Project Pakistan will change that
paradigm. It coincides with our objectives of training the students to grow up as global
citizens responsible for the well being of others and the survival of the planet."
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BYLAWS
OF
KASHMIR FAMILY AID, INC.
A Nonprofit Corporation
RECEIVED
OCT 12 2007
DEpp MENT OF
JUSTIC
LAND LEGAL
ARTICLE 1.
Name and Purpose
The name of the Corporation is KASHMIR FAMILY AID, INC., (hereafter referred
to as "Corporation") and it is organized for the primary purpose of assisting children
within the Ajad Kashmir and Pakistan's Northern Frontier Province.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall not undertake any acts or
otherwise carry out its business so as to disqualify it from non-profit status as conferred
by the State of Oregon, nor shall it act or carry out its affairs in such a manner that the
Corporation would not qualify for recognition of exemption under IRC Section 501(c)(3).
The Corporation shall at all times direct its activities towards assisting children
within the Ajad Kashmir and Pakistan's Northern Frontier Province and not toward the
promotion of, or performance of sponsors or individuals, nor shall it regularly engage in
business activities ordinarily conducted for profit. The Corporation shall not permit any
net earnings to inure to the benefit of any board member or individual, nor shall it,
directly or indirectly, take any part in, or lend its influence or facilities to, the nomination,
election or appointment of any candidate for national, state or local elective office.
ARTICLE II.
Membership
Members of the Board of Directors are the sole membership of the Corporation.
ARTICLE III.
Board of Directors
Section 1. Membership.
The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors,
the membership of which shall consist of not fewer than three nor more than seven
individuals who shall serve without monetary compensation for their Board service. Any
compensation to the Directors or Officers outside of their board duties requires prior
approval by the Board of Directors.
A. Election of Directors. The members of the Board shall elect new
members as needed by a majority vote of the full Board at any regularly -scheduled
meeting.
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Charitable Activities Sectt,'11
Oregon Department of Justice
1515 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 410
Portland, OR 97201-5451
E -Mail: charitable.activtties(Odoj.state.or.us
Web site: http://www.doj.state.or.us
VOICE (971) 673-1880
TDD (503) 378-5938
FAX (971) 573-1882
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Kashmir Family Aid, Inc.
Sam Carpenter
20430 Timberline Ct
Bend, OR 97702
Registration# 3711
Phone: (541) 385-1970 Fax: (541) 385-5534
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accompanying notes and any schedules presented as supplementary information to the basic financial statements,
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If yes, write the name of the fund-raising firm(s) who conducts the campaign(s):
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agreement with any district attomey or attorney general or a legal action In any court regarding the organization's solicitation,
administration, or management practices? If yes, attach copies of the agreement and a written explanation.
5. During this reporting period, did the organization amend Its articles of incorporation, bylaws, or trust documents, OR did the
organization receive a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service Indicating a new or amended tax-exempt status?
if yes, attach a copy of the amended document or letter.
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