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Founder's Prologue

During our first visit to Malé, which took place in January 2001, we were received by the President of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The President had recently hosted the 9th SAARC summit in Malé, and was very supportive of the SAF’s activities. He was particularly keen on using information and communications technologies to help connect people living in the numerous isolated and remote islands of the Maldives. As a result, the SAF established its first information technology project on the island constituency of Adh Atoll. The project was implemented by Hon. Ibrahim Zaki, the first chairperson of the Maldives chapter of the SAF, and is in keeping with the SAF’s objectives of imparting education to young people to enhance their efficiency and productivity, while creating a strong sense of regional cooperation and solidarity among people in South Asia.

The Maldives have subsequently benefited greatly from various SAF projects across SAARC countries in which young people have regularly participated. These projects include the SAF Madanjeet Singh Group Scholarships offered by ACJ in Chennai and at BNU in Lahore, and the SAF SOS Environment Camps and Scout Friendship Camps. The second Scout Friendship Camp was held on the island of Feydhoo Finolhu in February 2003 in the presence of the SAF Governing Council. Events included an elaborate exhibition of handicrafts displaying beautiful products from each of the seven SAF countries and a variety of traditional dances performed by both boys and girls.

  

 

It was an amazing experience particularly for the children of landlocked countries such as Nepal and Bhutan who had never before seen the sea. The theme of the camp was ‘protection of the environment’, a subject of great importance to the region as over 1,000 small, low-lying coral islands of the Archipelago are endangered by the rise in sea-levels caused by global warming.

Madanjeet Singh
SAF Founder

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Secretary: Mr Ahmad Hamdan -Email :-  hamdan@safmail.org
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News Male, Maldives - 27th November 2025

MSF Delegation Holds Talks with Dr. Abdulla Khaleel, Foreign Affair to Boost more SAF Scholarship Access for Maldivian Youth

A delegation from the Madanjeet Singh Foundation (MSF) held an official meeting with Hon’ble Dr. Abdulla Khaleel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Maldives, on 27 November 2025 in Malé. The meeting focused on enhancing the outreach and representation of Maldivian students across the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institutes of Excellence.

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The First South Asia Foundation (SAF) – Maldivian Alumni Get-Together was held with great enthusiasm on 27 November 2025 at the Maagiri Hotel, Malé, marking a significant milestone in strengthening regional academic and professional cooperation. The event, which began at 11:30 AM.

News Male, Maldives - 30th November 2019

SAF Governing Council Members met the officials from Ministry of Foreign affairs, Maldives

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Mme France Marquet, Principal Trustee, MSF met H.E. Aishat Ali, Minister of Education, Maldives

News Lahore, Pakistan - 12th October 2012

Maldivian students at UMISAA

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