You give but little when you give
of your possessions. It is when you
give of yourself that you truly give.

Gibran Kahlil Gibran. The Prophet

 

Thanks to everyone who donated and will donate to the Academic University College for Non-violence and Human Rights - AUNOHR.

●Many believe in and support a pioneering idea before it grows and crystallizes into an institution. This is how benevolence in AUNOHR arose since we advanced the idea in front of a narrow number of individuals and organizations that never wavered, but rather took the initiative to endorse the first phase of founding the university after they perceived AUNOHR’s pioneering vision in the current state of our region.  AUNOHR considered the first financial support as an action of partnership.

●What the implications of benevolence for a fledgling university not popular enough to attract donations; that carries the banner of non-violence and human rights in particular; founded by strugglers and intellectuals; independent and not linked to or backed by prominent contacts that have financial, political or religious power; that offers indistinct specializations to the majority of people who are uncertain of how such majors, that are new in higher education, can be  professionally worthwhile? Therefore, what is the connotation of donation or the wish to donate?
In our viewpoint, the meaning reside in partnership, the partnership of conscience.

●AUNOHR is a local university extended across the entire Arab world, and it takes pride in its friendships with benefactors with prominent roles in the community, in addition to Nobel Peace laureates, artists, as well as literary and struggling figures from around the world.

Your donation renders you a member in the extended family and to this existential context that goes beyond the term “university”. Donation has a broader connotation since the donor imparts hope and confidence in the culture of non-violence in our communities; he instills optimism and self-assurance particularly in students who will experience the feeling that they are not alone in this new boat. According to one of the early supporters: “It is I who thank you…”

 

Movie on “Mr. Musa Freiji’s donation”

 

Profound appreciation and gratitude to those who financially contributed to the first launching of AUNOHR,

Norwegian Human Rights Program in Lebanon
Engineer Mr. Musa Freiji – Lebanon
PAX Christi – The Netherlands
Swiss Human Rights Program in Lebanon
Board of trustees
Friends
Lebanese Association for Civil Rights (LACR)
Founder Walid Slaybi