Amoud Foundation Annual Leadership Luncheon

The 2009 Amoud Foundation Leadership luncheon was held at the Laquinta Inn in Irving, Texas. A thriving suburb of over 220,000 people located between Dallas and Fort Worth, Irving is the birth place of Amoud Foundation of Dallas. It was here, on a Saturday evening in 1998, that several Somali Americans gathered to form Amoud Foundation, with nothing more than hope, determination, and a lot of prayers. From those humble beginnings, the foundation has grown to the largest Somali charitable organization in the United States, with humanitarian projects spanning Somaliland, Puntland, South and Central Somalia, and Wajir, Kenya.

Honorable Herbert Gears, the mayor of the city of Irving, was the keynote speaker. He thanked Amoud Foundation for its humanitarian work both at home and abroad. Mayor Gears is known for making the city of Irving an international city that celebrates its diversity. Council member Allen Meagher of Irving also spoke at the luncheon. Leaders of many organizations from the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area also attended, as did many of the foundation's major individual donors and supporters.

The Amoud Foundation board thanked the attendees for their continued support. The Amoud Foundation 10th Anniversary Report highlighting the foundation's ongoing humanitarian and development assistance in Somaliland, Puntland, South and Central Somalia, and Wajir was shared.