City of Philadelphia - File #: 000239

• File #: 000239
• Version: 0
• Type: Privileged Resolution
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 4/13/2000
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 4/13/2000
• Title: Declaring Saturday, April 22, 2000, "The Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund and Keystone Mercy Health Plan "2000-Family Walk For Peace" Day.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Cohen, Councilmember Longstreth, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Krajewski

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/13/2000	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
4/13/2000	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
4/13/2000	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Declaring Saturday, April 22, 2000, "The Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund and Keystone Mercy Health Plan "2000-Family Walk For Peace" Day.
Body
WHEREAS, Harriett and Sultan Ahmad started the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund in 1993 in loving memory of their young son Sultan Jihad, who was a victim of youth violence. On April 20, 1992 the first Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund Annual Awards Dinner where honorees included individuals and organizations that provided leadership in "Stop the Youth Violence" initiatives. Educational scholarships were awarded to local high school seniors planning to attend college and bank accounts were established for "at risk" youth identified as the little brothers of the Ahmad family; and

WHEREAS, Since its inception, the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund has awarded well over $70,000 in scholarships to at-risk youth and community organizations across the City of Philadelphia. As a direct result of their contact with the Fund, youth recipients continue to actively advocate nonviolent behavior for themselves and other youths; and

WHEREAS, On the horizon of a new millennium, the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship fund will partner with Keystone Mercy Health Plan to present a "Spring Fling Non-Violence Weekend". Events scheduled for the weekend of April 20 -April 22, 2000, include a Youth Anti-Violence Leadership Forum Luncheon, The Annual Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Awards Dinner and will culminate on Saturday with a 2000-Family Walk for Peace, two miles, on the Philadelphia, West River Drive; and

WHEREAS, Increasing the awareness that alternatives to violent destructive behavior exists and can be effectively utilized by all of the citizens of Philadelphia; now therefore

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That we hereby declare Saturday, April 22, 2000 as the Sultan Jihad Ahmad Scholarship Fund and Keystone Mercy Health Plan "2000-Family Walk for Peace" Day. We applaud the tireless e...