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Sound Vision's Current Projects Since our establishment in 1988, Sound Vision has provided Muslims and non-Muslims with quality educational multimedia products, whether it's our hallmark Adam's World videos or our Quran and Hadith CD-Roms. Allah has blessed us and made us pioneers in catering to the need for Islamic knowledge of Muslims and non-Muslims in America and abroad. Currently, Sound Vision has six main projects it is working on or hoping to establish. 1. RadioIslam.com Since Ramadan 2000, RadioIslam.com has been providing programming six days a week, including a weekend edition, of its program Living Islam. Sound Vision's Sr.Nureya Namaz produces this program, which includes Quranic recitation, Hadith, interviews, songs, stories for kids and more. On RadioIslam.com, we've discussed hot topics like the Taliban, Islam against racism and Malcolm X. The list of topics has not only varied, but it has also grown in quantity. Alhamdu lillah! Learn more about RadioIslam.com. 2. Young Muslim magazine Young Muslim is an English language magazine for Muslim children. Its goal is to provide content that will conform to the high ideals and moral character of Islam in as joyfully an entertaining way as possible. Young Muslim has full-color illustrations on all 32 of its glossy pages, exciting fiction and non-fiction stories, fascinating history lessons, contests everyone can enter, Muslim cartoons and attractively presented lessons from The Quran and Hadith. We've already produced three test issues of Young Muslim, but, insha Allah, with your help we intend to make it a monthly magazine. Although it appeals to everyone, it's particularly aimed at junior high school aged students with a section for younger readers. We've conducted a survey of over 900 childre, and gained insight into the most popular aspects of a magazine. We have also discovered a talent pool of young artists and writers for stories and drawings. As a Muslim magazine, Young Muslim is able to compete with the other young peoples' magazines on the American market, with one crucial difference: it's completely Muslim. With a team of first-class editors and writers and an advisory board of Muslim principals, teachers and writers, we think Young Muslim can outstrip the competition! Your donation will help us fulfill our intentions for Young Muslim Magazine: to contribute to raising a generation of English-speaking Muslim children totally at ease with their Islamic identity and at the same time able to relate successfully to the intense American environment in which we live. Learn more about Young Muslim magazine. 3. The internship program In the summer of 1998, Mohammad Ahmed Faruqui was still unsure about what kind of journalism he wanted to pursue as a career. He decided to enroll in Sound Vision's summer internship program. Faruqui got academic credit for the internship. Today, he is a reporter for the News Herald, a Panama City, Florida newspaper. Sound Vision's internships aim to Muslims college students interested in the fields of media and communications get practical, hands-on experience working for a Muslim multimedia company. Sound Vision provides each intern with a weekly stipend while they learn and contribute. Currently, Sound Vision has a number of internships available for the coming summer. Your support and financial aid will help make this project accessible to even more Muslims, Insha Allah. Please see more details about our internship program. 4. Development of lesson plans for Islamic weekend schools Ninety-nine percent of Muslim children in North America attend public school. Five out of the seven days of a week, they are in a culture and an environment where their Islamic values are at best tolerated and at worst ridiculed. Islamic weekend schools try to compensate for that. What has been lacking up to now is not Muslim adults willing to teach Islamic principles at weekend classes in our mosques, but a solid curriculum from which they can teach, and a directory of resources with which they can augment their teaching. Many Muslim men and women with pure intentions but no educational background arrive without preparation at children's classes on Islam on Saturdays or Sundays, and are faced with a perplexing dilemma: what to teach, and how to go about it. Sound Vision is developing a solution. The Weekend Muslim School lesson plans will provide what is necessary for a Muslim child to know over a learning period of five to ten years, clearly laid out class period by class period. It will provide easy-to-use tools for general classroom management. It will present ways to make classes interactive, through questions and answers, as well as through cooperative tasks and projects. Ways to test the students will also be provided, to strengthen what they learn. And all of this will be presented in an attractive, exciting manner to create enthusiasm in our young Muslims to learn all they can about Islam. The goal is to help form well-balanced, knowledgeable Muslim adults, strong in their Islam and able to connect in positive ways with society at large. With this goal in mind, we've started by assembling Muslim educators and thinkers to help develop these lesson plans. Once it is ready to be used, Sound Vision will make it freely available to everyone by various publishing means, including through the Internet. The Weekend Muslim School Plan project is one more example of Sound Vision's commitment to the community… and our answer to an urgent need. more about Weekend School Lesson Plans. 5. Development and dissemination of free information on how to live Islam everyday Sound Vision's website deals with the applied aspect of Islam. Tips on making the most of Eid, how to provide Islamic sex education, fighting racism and prejudice, helping Muslim teens stay Muslim, how to deal with Christmas: these are just some of the hot topics we have covered on our website. Almost every week Sound Vision sends subscribers a free update with practical information about how to live Islam today, especially in the West. While the initial focus of the articles was on Muslims in America, today, Muslims in more than 104 countries receive and Insha Allah, benefit from, our free, tips-oriented articles. Some Muslims have told us they successfully used our ideas to live and present Islam to others. Whether it's providing a sample letter to a school teacher we drafted or to a boss, our aim was and continues to be to provide Muslims with the tools to live Islam with the pressures and realities of today. At this moment Sound Vision's site is developed and maintained by only two full-ime and one part-ime persons. With millions of hits, there is a need for more writers and Islamic scholars to get involved. We request your donations to make it possible. 6. The Sound Vision Foundation endowment fund Sound Vision is a Waqf lillah (a charity for the sake of Allah). An endowment fund is an investment fund which aims to aims to create long-term financial support for an organization. The way it works is that a pool of money is established through donor contributions, for example. This pool is then invested.The income that is generated from the investment is used for projects and plans, but the original pool of money remains intact. An endowment fund not only provides financial stability for organizations like Sound Vision. It also allows us to make long-terms plans for non-profit projects we would like to develop, thereby providing you, the consumer, with more quality educational products. Sound Vision is aiming to establish an endowment fund, Insha Allah, to help us gain a stronger financial footing and so we can plan for the future and in turn, benefit the Muslim community in America and abroad through better programs and services. © 2002 Sound Vision Foundation, Inc. Introducing Sound
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