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Following the International success of the Academy Award-Winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, Former US Vice President Al Gore founded The Climate Reality Project to take the conversation about climate change forward and turn awareness into action.
Read more about the event here.
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African Prisons Project was born from the selfless desire of one man to improve the lives and prospects for prisoners in Africa.
Read more about how The Rumi Foundation supports African Prisons Project here.
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One idea has the potential to change the world. It is with this belief that MassChallenge was founded in 2009 in Boston by John Harthorne and Akhil Nigam. They had a desire to take ideas, nurture them and help them fulfil their potential.
Rumi Verjee was asked to be a judge at the 2014 MassChallenge Awards in Boston where Eric Schmidt of Google and Travis Kalanick of Uber were also keynote speakers highlighting the importance and potential of startups for the economy.
Read more about the event here.
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Kennedy Odede grew up in Kibera in Nairobi, Africa’s largest slum where he was surrounded by poverty, violence and a clear lack of opportunity. In 2004, aged 18, he would walk to work for four hours everyday as a manual labourer earning barely enough to survive.
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The Rumi Foundation was proud to support the first ever We Day UK, which was held at Wembley Arena on 7th March 2014. Along with fellow co-chair Holly Branson, Lord Verjee welcomed 12,000 children, who could not buy tickets, but had earned their place by engaging in one local and one global charitable programme of their choice.
An initiative of the Canadian charity, Free The Children, We Day is a truly global movement inspiring children to make a difference and become active citizens. The true global reach of We Day could be seen by the amazing list of guest speakers and performers at We Day UK.
Amongst others HRH Prince Harry, Former US Vice-President and Nobel laureate Al Gore and Malala Yousafzai who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban to become a global activist for children’s right to education, all gave rousing speeches. Along with performances from Grammy Award winner Jennifer Hudson, Dizzy Rascal and Ellie Goulding it is in no doubt that everyone left We Day UK truly inspired.
Learn more here.
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Following Rumi Verjee’s visit to Africa with President Clinton, The Rumi Foundation hosted a lunch for President Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton to highlight some of the key challenges being addressed by the Clinton Foundation in Africa, including health, education, economic growth and equal opportunities for women.
It was the first time that President Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton had hosted an event in the UK together, and among the diverse projects discussed was the creation of The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a multi-national effort to increase the nutritional value in children’s meals and the access to medicine by those suffering the effects of global disasters.
The Foundation also supported a dinner for the Clinton Foundation later that evening at the Guildhall.
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In 2009 Julian Lloyd Webber launched In Harmony Lambeth to help children from disadvantaged areas around London to build self-confidence and access musical education.
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Opera Circus is a world renowned operatic ensemble that produce both powerful and beautiful performances set around important social issues.
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Building Tomorrow‘s goal is to provide a safe, permanent and local place for children in the developing world to learn. Its focus is in Uganda, where it has financed the construction of 10 schools, with a further five being built as at October 2012. Building Tomorrow empowers young college students in America to be Building Tomorrow Ambassadors: they advocate and fundraise at their local universities for a new primary-level academy in Uganda.
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Innovation Night 2012 at the Royal College of Art, the third of five annual keynote lectures to be endowed by the foundation, was held on 2nd May 2012. Joining us as guest speaker was will.i.am, frontman and founder of The Black Eyed Peas, one of the world’s most successful recording groups.
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Mosaic was founded by HRH The Prince of Wales in November 2007 to challenge the growing concern around the issues facing young Muslims living in deprived areas of Britain. Mosaic aims to increase education opportunities for those who do not have them and to increase opportunities for understanding between people of different backgrounds. Mosaic’s mentoring programme matches volunteer mentors with young Muslims and their peers at schools and in community groups to raise aspirations and to provide access to opportunities in education and employment.