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Gujarati Muslim Association of America

“Helping to Build a Future” GMAA was established in June 1990 to help our society for its social and educational upliftment. Creating awareness about need of education was the main goal for the founding members of the GMAA. For last 24 years, Al Hamdulillah GMAA has helped the society enormously by sincere dedication and hard […]

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Distance Learning.

Prohibitive cost, limited access, tight schedules, old age evaluation methods, and list can go on and on if we start listing the problem associated with current system of higher education Alhamdulillah, with distance learning  emerging as one of the promising alternative to present day education system,  things are changing slowly but surely. Distance learning may […]

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American Ingenuity Award.

AMERICAN INGENUITY AWARD. Saumil Bandyopadhyay 18, a teenager of Indian origin is one of the recipients of prestigious American Ingenuity Award (youth), for his breakthrough research for infrared detector. As a freshman at MIT he had five peer-reviewed scientific papers to his name, but no driver’s license. He spent much of high school in an […]

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First University of the World.

What an exhilarating fact! First university founded in the world was by a Muslim! Not only a Muslim, but a Muslimah! Yes! It was a Muslim woman who established first institute of higher learning. In fact Muslim community can boast of, some of the oldest universities in the world. University of Al-Karaouine: Located in Fes, […]

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Scholarships – Islamic Development Bank.

The Islamic Development Bank fund and implement its scholarship programs as part of its overall effort in the development of human resources of its member countries and those of the Muslim communities in non-member countries. There are three scholarship programs offered by IDB: Scholarship Program for Muslim Communities in Non-Member Countries M.Sc Scholarship Program in […]

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Pennies for Education and Health.

The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, occurred on January 26, 2001, India’s 51st Republic Day, at 08:46 AM local time (3:16 UTC) and lasted for over two minutes. The epicenter was about 9 km south-southwest of the village of Chobari in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District of  Gujarat, India. The earthquake reached a magnitude of between 7.6 and […]

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Sarovar Education Society

Sarovar Education Society. “After working hard for many years and spending lot of money, I GOT MY DEGREE, I AM GRADUATE, NOW WHAT?” Most of the youth in Indian Subcontinent face this question upon completing their education. This is even more true for youth of our Ummah. Not everyone is smart and lucky enough to […]

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ips officer.

By Ilyaskhan Pathan, TCN, Ahmedabad: Sarah Rizvi, 29 is the only Muslim woman IPS (Indian Police Service) officer in Gujarat Police. She is the role model for every parent who wants to teach their girl child and for all those women aspirants of Civil Service Exams. She is from the 2008 batch of Gujarat cadre. […]

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Dollar a Day!

“A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step”, a famous quote from Lao-tzu appearing on their website, reflects the spirit of the nonprofit organization Dollar a Day.  This is exactly the philosophy followed at The Community Concerns, that by taking tiny steps we can accomplish big goals. Created with a vision: “To strengthen […]

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A step in right direction.

The abysmal presence of Muslim students at the prestigious institutes of higher learning all around the world is obvious. We come across many studies describing this situation and attributing the blames rightly or wrongly to various causes.  Though such studies and reports are helpful, what we need more is well thought out concrete measures which […]

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