Family’s challenging past inspires £2.6 million programme to encourage new generation of African leaders
A husband and wife, who were forced with their families to leave the brutal dictatorship of 1970s Uganda, are making a generous donation to help a new generation of African leaders develop their skills.
US-based Firoz and Najma Lalji have made an initial gift of almost £1 million through their charitable foundation to help establish the Firoz and Najma Lalji Programme in African Leadership at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Each year the programme will enable 30 high-achievers from Africa to attend an intensive executive training course in London . They will benefit from high quality teaching in areas including government, economics, development and law from LSE and partner universities around the world. Participants will later be invited to an annual forum in Africa to help refresh their skills and form leadership networks across the continent.
13 Jan 2011: Benefactors launch African leadership programme at LSE
Ismailimail 
Whether it’s a numerically huge sum as this or a small one, it is very generous. We live in quite a world of individuality, insecurities, title achievement, ” to BE somebody” –but the generosity is an attempt to give back. How nice.
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Mashallah to both of you and your family. You have done what Quran teaches us to share.
I admire your success and pray that Allah may give you more to carry on your philanthropy work.
Bless you
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