History

The Background • How it Works • Future

How it Works:

The Hope Fund staff consists of Dr. Fahim Qubain and his wife Nancy Qubain. Since founding the Hope Fund, the Qubains have volunteered their time and energies with no compensation to administer and direct its affairs.

No one associated with the Fund receives any pay or benefit other than reimbursement of expenses. In fact, Board members contribute financially and in other ways to the Hope Fund’s mission.

In less than five years, the Fund has grown to the point where it now administers over two million dollars in scholarships generously donated by colleges who share our humanitarian mission. The colleges usually provide a full four year scholarship including tuition, room and board, and in some cases even travel costs from the Middle East. For its part, the Hope Fund assumes serious obligations of its own. We solicit scholarships, traveling and meeting with college officials, work with Amideast on the selection of candidates, process all the college applications, secure and pay for US visas, pay travel expenses when these aren’t covered, and pay for books, health insurance and personal needs from refrigerators to bedding and clothing if needed. We also meet the students when they arrive and deliver them to their respective colleges.

The Hope Fund also monitors the student’s progress and his/her social welfare, espcially during the early stages of the students’ transition to a very different social and cultural world