On 9 May 2016, a fundraising initiative by the Said and Asfari Foundations, the Hands Up for Syria Appeal, concluded with £4 million raised from generous donors. This amount was matched pound for pound by the Foundations, making a fund of £8 million for the education of internally displaced and refugee Syrians. The total was …
Said Foundation Annual Dinner 2016
On 23 April, Wafic Said hosted the Annual Dinner of the Said Foundation in honour of students, alumni and partners of the Said Foundation. He presented the Said Foundation Alumni Achievement award to Nadine Kaadan for her unique contribution to children’s literature and her promotion of Syrian culture and heritage (pictured below). Wafic Said stressed …
Plight of Syrian refugees – The Telegraph
On 4 September 2015 the Telegraph published an article written by Wafic Said on the plight of the Syrian refugees. The full text is below: Britain must help these Syrian refugees, as it once helped me By Wafic Said Syria is the land of my birth. One night in 1963, after a military coup that …
Further scholarships for Syrian refugees
The Said Foundation has pledged a further US$1.8m to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR to fund scholarships for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. This is in addition to the US$1.8m committed in 2014 and will support a second cohort of one hundred student scholarships. It will increase to two hundred the total number of …
Honorary Degree from St Francis Xavier University
On 3 May 2015 Mr Wafic Rida Said addressed members of the Faculty and graduates at Canada’s premier undergraduate university, St. Francis Xavier University, as he received an honorary doctorate for his philanthropic endeavors around the world. The speech he gave at the bestowal ceremony is below. For further information please see the press release here St …
Said Foundation Annual Dinner 2015
On 25 April 2015 Wafic Said spoke at an annual prize giving dinner in honour of students, alumni and partners of the Said Foundation. Mr Said is pictured here presenting the 2015 alumni prize to Dr Yasser Abu Jamei, for his work in neuropsychiatry and community mental health in Palestine. Mr Said used the occasion to highlight current …
Scholarships for Syrian refugees
The Said Foundation has pledged over US$1.8m to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR for scholarships for Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. Announcing the grant on 17th July, the Chairman of the Foundation, Wafic Rida Said, said: “Syria is the Foundation’s highest priority and, in the current tragic circumstances, assistance for displaced and refugee Syrians …
The Thatcher Business Education Centre
On Friday 13 June 2014, the Saïd Business School’s new building was formally named “The Thatcher Business Education Centre” by the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon. David Cameron MP. In his words of greeting to the Prime Minister, Mr Saïd described his motivation for naming the education centre: “I have been asked on many occasion …