Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation Center: About SJACF

The purpose of the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation is to raise
awareness about the perils of youth violence through education and
outreach.
The Foundation is dedicated to the education of "At Risk Youth" on methods
and techniques to prevent youth delinquency and ending violence. It seeks to
end youth violence and strengthen the resources for them to meet the
challenges of tomorrow's leadership with knowledge and confidence.

SJACF will reinforce it's advocacy with programs designed to:

Secure financial support for the education of "At Risk Youth" that will be dedicated
to prevent youth delinquency and ending youth violence.

Perpetuate learning and promoting social psychological development for all
members of the community;

Practice nondiscrimination with respect to race religion, sex origin or creed in
providing scholarships and funding and/ or other rights, privileges or activities and
to actively recruit all members of the general community.

About SJACF

On April 20, 1992 our world came to a sudden stop, after being informed our
first born son, Sultan Jihad Ahmad had been murdered. From the depths of
our sorrow and pain emerged an idea of hope for all children. This hope
gave birth to The Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund. This scholarship
initiative will be a vehicle to guide as many young people as possible in the
right direction with hope, encouragement and financial support.

Over a decade the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation has provided
over $100,000 dollars scholarships for college bound youth, and services
that has given hundreds of at risk youth brighter opportunities and hope. As
a result of the support we have received from so many people over the years
our dream came true when in 2004 when we obtained the former O.I.C
historical building which was the first renowned (Opportunity Industrial
Center) in Philadelphia, Founded by the late Revered Leon Sullivan. This
became the permanent headquarters for the SJACF. The walls of this
historical building resonate of courage and commitment.

Sultan Jihad Ahmad would not have died in vain if we seize this opportunity
now, to Transform his death into a “Beacon of Hope” for our youth of today
and the future. Sultan was affectionately known to his family as “Jihad” or
“Eatmore”. His friends called him “Sudee.” He was talented, healthy,
inquisitive and always showing a strong zest for life. He was an inspiring and
confident student of electronics, video games and computer science. He
demonstrated his faith in his deeds. While practical in his own interest, he still
found the time to be concern for the elders and youth of his community.

So you can see why we are so excited. We invite you to be excited with us,
please join with us, in providing an intuition that will reshape and redefine the
aspirations and hopes of so many youth whose dreams of hope are threaten
by the possibility of an early death as a result of senseless violent youth
conflicts. We welcome you to join our global village. Let us together raise our
youth to flourish into productive optimistic adults, thereby bringing to the
world community the best in character and contribution. To give our children
the opportunity we know they need and deserve, we all must unite in and
sharing and caring.
We look forward to working with you. Thank you for dropping in.