In 1986, following Lebanon’s devastating civil war, Mr. Kreidie (and his wife Sophie) returned from Saudi Arabia to find their homeland in ruins. With experience in scholarship fundraising, Mr. and Mrs. Kreidie were determined to widen their philanthropic reach to provide an authenic humanitarian service. They started INMA Foundation to provide poverty-stricken communities with medicine, food, shelter and supplies. In 1995, evolving with Lebanon’s changing needs, INMA Foundation redirected is focus to offer guidance in education, hygiene, agriculture, and other essential human needs. In 1995, INMA Foundation opened a student care center in Beirut’s Hamra District, aiming to build relationships between two local universities and provide a positive and affordable neighborhood gathering place for social events. INMA Foundation is baed upon a reciprocal vision of service. Through unbiased giving and countrywide development projects, INMA Foundation provides the disadvantaged communties of Lebanon with empowerment, education and the tools for reconciliation. In return, its beneficiaries build their own communities with wisdom, spiritual strength, and love which spans cultural borders.

DFI intends to work alongside INMA Foundation and provide funds, gifts in kind, human resources, knowledge and time to poor and disadvantaged people living in Lebanon as part of the effort to work towards reconciliation. Knowing the complicated situation in Lebanon, DFI is working to provide a trusted entity in the United States that will help United States citizens to be more involved in this process in line with the laws of the United States.

DFI intends to follow a model currently used by INMA Foundation for its volunteers; that is DFI’s volunteers will gather together in small groups on a regular basis, think together, discuss together, pray together and play together, striving to embody and pass along the following principals:

• Love unconditionally
• Serve God and not money
• Humble ourselves
• Give without seeking a return
• Empower and not control
• Show mercy, not revenge
• Seek justice and freedom for all people
• Encourage and not discourage
• Spread hope and not despair
• Believe and not doubt.

DFI intends to work with the following organizations in connection with this activity: UNRWA, a subsidiary organization of the United Nations (www.unrwa.org), Mission of Mercy, a United States public charity (www.missionofmercy.org), and Fellowship Foundation, Inc., a United States public charity. DFI anticipates that it will devote approximately 10 percent of its time to this program.