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In Today's Newsletter
HDF's Success in Education:
Annual Prize Distribution for HDF Karachi Katchi Abadi Schools
HDF Village Education Program
Sajid's Story: Opportunity for a Better Tomorrow

Latest Online Poll: How will you help Pakistan improve this Summer?

Independence Day & America:
The History of America's Birthday
Celebrating The Fourth Of July
Declaration of Independence
The Star Spangled Banner
Safety Tips for Independance Day
Interesting Facts About America
Quiz About Independence Day

Assalamu alaikum,

As I sit here, the sounds of pre-emptive fireworks are crackling and popping outside the window. It is very festive, but it also serves as yet another reminder of how fortunate we are here in America that the sounds of rockets and explosions in the sky only are good things signifying celebration.

Indeed, there is much we have to be grateful for in this country: All of the freedom and opportunity to live our lives in the manner we choose, the ability to succeed through hard work and determination, and the incredible access to the barest essentials of what human beings need?clean water, education, health care, etc.?that sometimes I think many of us take for granted.

As you know, it is not this way everywhere in the world.

The overriding principle of human development is that when people are given access to those essentials, they will become self-sufficient enough to not only survive, but to prosper. Time and time again, we at the Human Development Foundation have seen this happen.

Whether it is building and staffing a girls? secondary school that allows young women to continue their education, or something as simple as installing some hand pumps that give people access to clean and safe water, the programs?and the principles behind those programs?of HDF give people much more than just some educational classes or a glass of water.

Those programs help provide independence.

Please, take a moment or two from your celebration this year and think of those individuals who are not as blessed as those of us in this country. It is only through the ongoing and generous support of our friends that HDF is able to continue to provide those desperately needed services.

Together, we have the power to make incredible changes. Together, we have the power to help people achieve independence.

On behalf of the staff and Board of Directors of the Human Development Foundation, I wish you and your family a happy and safe 4th of July.

Peace,

Bill Breedlove
Executive Director
Human Development Foundation

Annual Prize Distribution for HDF Karachi Katchi Abadi Schools
This is more than just an example of how HDF is changing lives in Pakistan. It is a lesson for all of us that people, given the opportunities, will make things better starting from a grass-roots level. [read more]

HDF Village Education Program
The Human Development Foundation (HDF) has sponsored an education program that is underway in 48 large and small villages of Tando Muhammad Khan Council. Its base camp is in Shamsabad, some 225 kilometers from Karachi. [read more]

Sajid's Story: Opportunity for a Better Tomorrow
Despite the cold, his severe headaches and his own family's poverty, seven-year-old Sajid is determined to one day become an electrician. Thanks to HDF's school in his village of Bagh killi, he may get this opportunity. [read more]

35% of our visitors indicate that they will volunteer for an event supporting a humanitarian cause in Pakistan this summer.

Survey Question: How will you help Pakistan improve this Summer?

I will read or write about Pakistan and its people	42.86%
I will volunteer for an event supporting a humanitarian cause in Pakistan	34.69%
I will Donate to a Development Project in Pakistan	18.37%
I will invest in a worthwhile business venture in Pakistan	4.08%

What does Independence Day mean to you?

The History of America's Birthday
Schoolchildren in America learn the basic history of the events surrounding the Fourth of July, but the details of this monumental occasion in American history somehow fall through the cracks. [read more]

Celebrating The Fourth Of July
There once was a time in America when the year was marked by two eagerly awaited high festivals -- Christmas and Independence Day. On the Fourth of July, from country to city it was a day of fluttering flags, passionate emotions, and bombastic pleasures commemorating a freedom so recently won. [read more]

Declaration of Independence
"When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation." [read more]

The Star Spangled Banner
Throughout the year, visitors to Washington, DC, pause to view the 185-year-old flag which inspired the U.S. national anthem.Unlike today's flag, the flag of the early 19th century had one stripe as well as one star for each state currently in the Union. [read more]

Interesting Facts About America
Did you know that Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work and that it was once illegal to take a bath in the wintertime in Indiana. Discover more such interesting facts about our country. [read more]

Help a family achieve dignity for just fifty cents a day!
Your tax-deductible donation of just $15 per month will help us provide services for a family of eight. $30 per month supports two families. That?s just a dollar per day to help two families reach for dignity and well-being. Won?t you take a moment to donate now?

HDF is an organization of Pakistani-Americans.

Please forward this newsletter to all who care for Pakistan & America

The mission of HDF shall be to facilitate a non-political movement for a positive social change and community empowerment through mass literacy, enhanced quality of education, universal primary health care and grassroots economic development.

Date/Time Last Modified: 6/28/2002 5:32:02 PM

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