The Qatar Foundation International, or QFI, in 2011 partnered with the Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate matchmaking between classrooms in the U.S. and international schools through something called the “Connect All Schools” project. QFI, funded by the Qatari government, explains on its website the initiative was founded in response to Obama’s call in his June 2009 speech to the Arab world in Cairo, Egypt, to “create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.” Read more at mobile.wnd/2013/01/muslim-brotherhood-group-to-connect-all-u-s-schools/#yVjXqdyiRzVfRyBe.99
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:10:48 +0000
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