ADCAM Honors & Grants
2006 Medal of Freedom
Ferial Sami, ADCAM founder, was recently honored by the Brazilian Parliament with their equivalent to the “Medal of Freedom” in recognition of exemplary contributions and services to the community and to Brazil.
2005 Center of Excellence $60,000 Grant
One generous family has comitted to providing $60,000 over the next two years to build a “Center of Excellence” in ADCAM. This will be a wonderful addition to the opportunites swiftly becoming a reality for these deserving children.
2005 Microsoft® Curriculum
Microsoft® has provided the Mona Foundation with its Unlimited Potential Curriculum to be used in our technology labs in CTLC, Ruaha, and ADCAM. This curriculum will allow our schools to offer Information Technology Certification programs. The full curriculum includes these IT skills: Computer fundamentals, Database fundamentals, Digital Media fundamentals, Internet and WWW fundamentals, Presentation fundamentals, Spreadsheet fundamentals, Web design fundamentals, and Word processing fundamentals. Besides these sequential learnings, Microsoft® has a site with several specific 30-50 minute long modules on specific aspects of each of the Microsoft® products. These will be used to augment the curriculum we are given above. Two Microsoft® supporters have also offered 3 weeks of volunteering in Tanzania to train the teachers on how to teach these courses to put together a "certification program".
top2005 40-Computer Lab
The Mona Foundation was able to provide 40 computers, shipped in early 2005, for a new computer lab in the Masrour Institute of technology. The lab was opened on October 26, 2005.
2004 Los Angeles Events Touch the Heart
Ferial Sami, who with her husband established the pre-school that led to what ADCAM is today, recently came to the Los Angeles area. She met with about 100 women at a luncheon reception, arranged by Sima Mobini and Diane Samandi, to share the ADCAM story. The story of how an orphanage grew into a K-12 school, a teacher training college, and a 4-year Technology Institute touches the heart. Upon hearing the story, several women, with tears in their eyes, offered full year scholarships for the students. Very soon after this event, contributions began to stream in. The amount rose to $10,000 for scholarships for the ADCAM students.
2003 Seattle Foundation Grant
A grant from the prestigious Seattle Foundation provided $1,000 in scholarships. This grant was again generously offered in 2004.
2002 Masrour Institute of Technology
A grant from the Federal Government of Brazil for approximately US $1 million was awarded in 2002 to construct and equip the Masrour Institute of Technology. This Institute, scheduled to open in October 2005, will offer a variety of courses, 4-year degree programs and technical associate degrees for youth and adults in areas such as refrigeration, graphic design, business administration, social and economic development, social work, environmental studies, nutrition, carpentry, mechanics and music.
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