BBC News Pakistan’s six-party opposition Islamic alliance is threatening a campaign of countrywide protests over amendments to the country’s strict rape laws. The MMA alliance says its members will resign from national and provincial assemblies after MPs voted that rape should no longer fall under Sharia law. President Pervez Musharraf in a television speech said…
Virtue Foundation Katrina Education Initiative provides 660 Apple notebook computers and Microsoft software licenses to hurricane-affected schools
Virtue Foundation began working with local schools and partnering with corporations such as Apple and Microsoft to revitalize the educational system, resulting in a donation of $1.2 million in notebook computers, software and hardware to local schools.
NEW YORK, New York—September 12, 2006—Virtue Foundation, a public charitable organization and NGO focused on empowering vulnerable women and children worldwide through various education and healthcare initiatives, announced a partnership with Apple Computer yesterday to provide technology-driven education to children affected by Hurricane Katrina. The partnership, which includes a donation of 600 iBook G4 laptop…
The Fifth Annual Bicoastal Symposium Commemorating the Anniversary of September 11 Virtue Foundation is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual Bicoastal Symposium in Los Angeles and New York commemorating the anniversary of September 11. Opening in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 9, at UCLA, the two-day symposium will conclude in New York at the United…
Soledad O’Brien from CNN American Morning speaks with Dr. Joan LaRovere featuring Virtue Foundation’s work in Louisiana post Hurricane Katrina.
Partnering with actress Anne Hathaway, the Foundation launched the “Child Soldiers Youth Project,” raising awareness of child soldiers among high school students in the U.S. and providing them with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of these child soldiers.
The following account is from a New York-based physician deployed by Virtue Foundation to visit Mukhtar Mai and render medical assistance and supplies to children in the hospitals and shelters Mukhtar has established in her village with the compensation money she received
Montreal – June 12, 2006 – Logo Computer Systems Inc. (LCSI) is happy to announce an exciting new program in support of three education-related foundations, to take place at this year’s NECC Conference being held in San Diego, CA on July 4-7. Like LCSI, all three foundations – DonorsChoose, OpenWorld Learning and Virtue Foundation –support…