Abdul Ladha of Canada is founder of Spark Global Philanthropic Foundation, an organization that grooms children for philanthropy with leading philanthropists like Clinton, Guistra, Telfer, more
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I came across something the past couple days where I've been trying to get diggs together for this. I'll need your help to get more diggs of the individuals involved, but here's some stuff to help you start. Some of this stuff may surprise you. Oh - and this Foundation is indeed registerd as a charity like all of them!
ABDUL LADHA AND HIS WIFE
Abdul Ladha, according to his website, is:
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Founder and Chiarman of Overture Development Corporation, a property investment and development company
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Former CEO of apparently active ableauctions.com (Remains registered and active in Arizona), with Jeremy Dodd as secretary. Jeremy Dodd of ETCO Electric Supply appears on Ladha's RelationshipScience profile.
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(Former?) CEO of Dexton Technologies and Rapidfusion.com
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Board member of Lift the Children, founded by John Volken (German-Canadian) of the The John Volken Foundation and operator of the John Volken Academy
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A supporter of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Aga Khan Development Network, Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Interestingly POTUS appears to be in one of the pics that Ladha posted on his website…wonder if POTUS and Q know about this operation.
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Member of Council, Hoover Institute, Stanford University
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Founding member, Women's B.A.N.K Development Group (now known as Women's Bank of Canada) and contributing member of Women's B.A.N.K. Society
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Founding director, Canadian Institute for Technological Advancement (CITA) → Vancouver Board of Trade and World Trade Centre cooperated in a joint venture of this organization
Abdul's wife is Hanifa Ladha, who is a pediatric physiotherapist at BCCH in Vancouver. On the Interests section of her LinkedIn profile is Collingwood School, who is links to quite a few of the students who attend the Spark program. You can find a list of the students here: Cross reference these students with Spark's founding partners (later in post) and you'll be able to confirm that individuals below are the ones who donated to this foundation.
https://www.sparkfoundation.com/program/students/ / https://archive.vn/pxlaA
https://www.sparkfoundation.com/spark-junior/students/ / https://archive.vn/v52i6
Hanifa Ladha was at one point an insider trader for Hongli Clean Energy Technologies Corp, a coal and coke producer based in Pingdingshan, China, where she held $1M of shares. Interestingly on RelationshipScience, Abdul Ladha shows strong relationship likelihoods with multiple individuals from Hongli Clean Technologies Corp.
https://www.tipranks.com/insiders/hanifa-ladha / https://archive.vn/WkORa
https://relationshipscience.com/person/abdul-ladha-3174069 / https://archive.vn/tOHxT
SPARK FOUNDATION
Spark is connected with Philanthropic Leadership Foundation (https://www.p-leadership-f.com), another of Ladha's organizations. Moar about Abdul Ladha:
https://www.abdulladha.com / https://archive.vn/PrDbc
Spark has three programs:
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Spark Philanthropy Program - for Grade 9 to post-secondary (~35 students annually)
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Spark Junior Program - for children aged 7-14 (~20 students annually)
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Endowment Management Program