ABOUT THE
STAR FOR LIFE FOUNDATION IN JERUSALEM
THE FOCUS OF THE FOUNDATION
The foundation focuses on the advancement of better opportunities for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem , so that they, in the long term, can build a brighter future for themselves, their families, and their societies.
The SFL Foundation in Jerusalem is a channel for donors who want to see substantial, comprehensive and positive changes in Eastern Jerusalem.
The SFL Foundation in Jerusalem is a neutral foundation headed by the Swedish IT entrepreneur Dan Olofsson and, during the next decade, it aims to focus on the delivery of education and jobs at a grassroots level. In addition to hi-tech.
The SFL Foundation is aware of the many challenges that exist, still our focus is contributing to a brighter future in East Jerusalem.
The foundation is apolitical and religiously neutral.
SUMMARY OF OUR PROJECTS
Our plans for East Jerusalem in order to promote peace and prosperity
We set out our objective: The foundation focuses on the advancements of better life opportunities for all inhabitants of East Jerusalem, so that they, in the long term, can build a brighter future for themselves and their families. Peace and prosperity for the inhabitants of East Jerusalem is the long-term priority. The Foundation does not have any political or religious affiliation.
Delivery on the ground in education and jobs is our focus. This means we are a delivery organisation for the inhabitants in East Jerusalem.
We worked through a five year strategy plan showing our three focus areas SFL Education, SFL Job Hub and SFL Sigma Labs with concepts, goals, costs etc. The programs are based on many years of experience of similar NGO-work in other countries and headed by our founder, the Swedish entrepreneur Dan Olofsson. The strategy plan is presented in our Donor presentation.
Our plan is that after five years run Star for Life Education in 40 schools with 11 000 students. In SFL Job Hub are goal during five years is to facilitate 3000 jobs and in SFL Sigma Labs our goal during five years is to facilitate 1000 IT-jobs.
We are delivering according to our plan. After legally establishing our foundation, recruiting our management and established our office the first months of 2022, we are gradually increasing our delivery.
Today we have 20 employees in our foundation headed by Reda Mansour as Chief Executive officer, Paz Cohen as director SFL Education, RajaI Nuseibeh as director of SFL Sigma Labs & SFL Job Hub. Chairman is Dan Olofsson. We have established good relations with all key stakeholders including the Municipality of Jerusalem, Arab leadership in East Jerusalem, leadership in schools in East Jerusalem, parents and students and professional partners for jobs.