One Year Ago…
Februray 14, 2006 marks Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri’s one year assasination. One year ago, an explosion ripped through Hariri’s motorcade killing him, seven of his bodyguards and bystanders.
A self-made billionaire through hard work and dedication, Hariri was able to rebuilt Beirut form all aspects within a very short period after the Civil War.
“If there is anything that defines Hariri’s and points to his proudest achievement, it is, by his acknowledgement, the Hariri Foundation. It is a testimony to the importance that he gives to education and future generations. He admits that the work of the foundation is the closest to his heart. He founded the Hariri Foundation in 1979, a non-profit organization that helped educate more than 33.000 Lebanese students in the best universities in Lebanon, the U.S., the U.K, France, and Canada.
The Hariri Foundation provides also health, social and cultural services to the needy in Lebanon as well as promotes cultural issues and childrens welfare. It maintains offices in Lebanon, Paris and Washington. In recognition of the Hariri Foundation’s commitment to education and culture, it has granted scholarships, built schools and colleges throughout Lebanon and sponsored efforts to preserve Islamic architecture and refurbished mosques, the Foundation won “King Faysal International Award for Serving Islam”, for the year 2005, equally with the Islamic Bank for Development, in Jeddah.”
God bless his soul.
