This Foundation is an act of faith in our country.
Bernard Fattal, Fattal Group CEO, 1989 - 2011
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ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
We are Our Lady of Hope Foundation for Education and Teaching, a nonprofit and non-governmental organization created in 1987 on an initiative of Fattal Group and recognized by the Lebanese Ministry of Interior under the notice No. 145/ad.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide Lebanese children coming from disadvantaged social backgrounds with equal access to education without gender, religious, or geographical discrimination.
OUR VISION
We strive to break cycles of poverty and violence by building generations of Lebanese students capable of sustaining an active and self-determined life.
WHAT WE DO
We work directly with private schools across all of Lebanon, providing financial assistance to students whose families are struggling to afford schooling fees.
SOURCES OF FUNDS
50% of the funds we use to grant financial assistance to students are derived from Fattal Group companies, affiliates and business partners. 20% from Our Lady of Hope Foundation board of trustees, Fattal Family members and friends, and 30% from fundraising activities.
OUR PARTNERS
OUR STORY
In the late 1980s and through its third generation of leaders, the company sensed the extent to which the consequences of the civil war were affecting Lebanon’s most important asset: the education of its children. Strongly convinced that education is what gives their country its distinctive edge, Georges, Bernard, and Khalil Fattal then at the top of Khalil Fattal & Fils SAL, founded Our Lady of Hope Foundation for Education. In fact, they believed that the educational level of its citizens is what made Lebanon survive the absurdity and hostility of wartime. On October 8, 1987, the Lebanese Ministry of Interior authorized the Fattal Foundation to contribute to the schooling fees of Lebanese children living with precarious means without discrimination when it comes to gender, race, or geographical location.
