The Daughters for Life Foundation
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Mission Statement
We strive to advance, invest, and promote higher education for young women living in the Middle East.
About This Cause
On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of the Gaza war, the lives of the Abuelaish family changed forever. An Israeli tank shelled the home of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian Gynaecologist, killing his three daughters – 21-year-old Bessan, 15-year-old Mayar, 13-year-old Aya, and his niece, Noor. That evening, Dr. Abuelaish’s grief reverberated across households in the region. His pleas for justice and peace were captured live on television and made him a symbol of the human cost of war. Emerging from the horrors of that tragedy, Dr. Abuelaish chose the path of healing and peace. He poured his grief into resurrecting the memory of his three deceased daughters. The Daughters for Life Foundation is Dr. Abuelaish’s tribute to Bessan, Mayar, and Aya, to see their ambitions and desires be fulfilled by other girls. The three shared a love of life and learning, and every DFL scholar, fellow or awardee is furthering Bessan, Mayar, and Aya’s hopes and dreams for a better-educated world. DFL’s scholarship program recognizes female high school and university graduates to receive full scholarships in North America, the United Kingdom and South Asia. While the Awards Program assists dedicated female university students in their third year of study in accredited academic programs in the Middle East to aid with their tuition fees. The Daughters for Life Fellowship Program provides opportunities for exceptional female students from universities in the Middle East to develop their disciplinary horizons in collaboration with institutions around the world. DFL supports young women who have overcome adversity and hardship, demonstrated scholastic achievement and made an outstanding contribution to improving the lives of girls and young women by volunteering or working in their local community. In accordance with the belief that education should be accessed by anyone no matter their background or faith, DFL is a pluralist organization and the program beneficiaries are chosen irrespective of their religion or where they are from in the Middle East. All that matters is that they possess a passion for knowledge and uphold ideals for a better world. The values and beliefs that have guided DFL since 2010 will continue to shine the path to the next decade. Education is a basic human right that every woman must have access to across the Middle East, regardless of her faith or ethnicity. Education empowers women to exercise their rights, contribute to their community, and lead their societies towards peace and prosperity. Now in our tenth year, DFL is determined more than ever to make higher education accessible to more girls who are suffering violence, prejudice, and injustice in the Middle East. Awarding scholarship opportunities to deserving young women is one of our key initiatives at DFL. The foundation’s past and the current tally of female program recipients exceeds 400 program recipients; 59 scholars, 341 awards and 5 fellowships. We are doubling our efforts to expand our capacity to send brilliant young women on scholarships to our academic partners. Expanding into Europe and other cities in the United States is also on our vision board for the near term.