  {"id":215892,"date":"2017-02-07T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=215892"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T16:31:50","slug":"our-goal-was-simple-we-wanted-to-help-as-many-refugees-as-we-could-215892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/our-goal-was-simple-we-wanted-to-help-as-many-refugees-as-we-could-215892\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our goal was simple. We wanted to help as many refugees as we could.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Memorial Art Gallery\u2019s \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mag.rochester.edu\/events\/hidden-passions-season-3\/\">Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives<\/a><\/strong>\u201d is in its third season of celebrating the creative lives and private hobbies of Rochesterians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHidden Passions puts our friends and neighbors center-stage so that we can marvel at the extraordinary creative adventures happening all around us \u2026 and perhaps find inspiration for our own,\u201d says Jonathan Binstock, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here, we highlight two members of the University community who are being featured this season.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"side-right\">\n<p><strong>Learn more<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Omar Soufan and Ibrahim Mohammad are\u00a0two of four featured speakers at Memorial Art Gallery\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mag.rochester.edu\/events\/hidden-passions-season-3\/\">Hidden Passions event<\/a><\/strong> at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 9. They will be joined by fellow undergraduates Dan Hargrove and Erik Rosenkranz, who will share the stories of their passions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Omar Soufan \u201917 and Ibrahim Mohammad \u201917 knew from the minute they met three years ago that they were bonded by their pasts\u2014and their future.<\/p>\n<p>Soufan left war-torn Syria for the United States five years ago. Mohammad is a Palestinian refugee who lived in Lebanon before coming to America.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, they set up a physical rehabilitation center in Lebanon, on the Syrian border, to help Syrian refugees wounded in that country\u2019s ongoing civil war. Now, they\u2019re working on the second phase of their project, Prosthesis for a New Syria, which aims to bring 3D-printed prosthetic upper limbs to refugees at the rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to give amputees prosthesis that are affordable, cosmetically appealing, and functional,\u201d says Soufan, a biomedical engineering major.<\/p>\n<p>Soufan was born in Chicago in 1994 when his mother was visiting her brother, a Syrian-born anesthesiologist. His entire family is from Syria, and that\u2019s where he grew up. His younger brother is a freshman at a college in Minnesota, and his sister is in ninth grade back home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215962\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/omaribrahim-420x630.jpg\" alt=\"two student pose at award ceremony\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/omaribrahim-420x630.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/omaribrahim.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Soufan, left, and Ibrahim Mohammad. (University photo \/ Keith Bullis).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Soufan enrolled at the College of DuPage, outside of Chicago, in 2012, and transferred to Rochester two years later. During a trip home, he passed through Lebanon. Walking through Beirut, he was stunned to see refugees sleeping on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were lots of families,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat shocked me were the locals. They would step over these people as if they were stepping over a stone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Soufan and Mohammad, a mechanical engineering major, settled on the idea of a medical facility to help refugees after finding an existing building near the Syrian border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal was simple,\u201d Mohammad says. \u201cWe wanted to help as many refugees as we could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They applied for a Davis Projects for Peace grant, which offers $10,000 to support grassroots projects that promote peace and address the root causes of conflicts. After coming in second place, they set up a Facebook page, eventually raising around $7,000. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Prosthesis-For-a-New-Syria-752177274895277\/?ref=bookmarks\">Those interested in donating can visit the Facebook page here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They received additional sponsorship from the Syrian American Medical Society and the Qatar Red Crescent Society, an organization in Qatar similar to the American Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a two-story facility that includes six hospital beds and a dozen staffers\u2014doctors, nurses and administrative help\u2014and treats more than 100 patients per month.<\/p>\n<p>Soufan and Mohammad were honored with the University\u2019s Social Entrepreneurship Award at the annual Student Life Awards (the \u201cRockys\u201d) last April.<\/p>\n<p>To launch the second phase of their project&#8211;Prosthesis for a New Syria&#8211;they connected with Adam Arabian, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Seattle Pacific University who specializes in the research and design of low-cost prosthetics. Arabian introduced them to e-NABLE, a global network of volunteers who use 3D printing to create free hands and arms for those in need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOmar and Ibrahim are on the leading edge of deploying and field-testing real, 3D-printed prosthetic components globally,\u201d he says. Working with designers and engineers in Turkey, Jordan, Haiti, and Southeast Asia, \u201cthey\u2019re part of a global team that has literally had worldwide impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Father Brian Cool, director of the University\u2019s Catholic Newman Community, knows both students well. He met Mohammad when they both made service trips to the Dominican Republic\u2014Mohammad for a water project with Engineers Without Borders, and Cool to dig latrines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen his work was done, Ibrahim asked if he could join our group,\u201d Cool says. \u201cWho asks to dig holes? As long as there is injustice in the world, he\u2019ll move the earth\u2014literally\u2014to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216302\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/soufan-hand-prosthetic.jpg\" alt=\"prosthetic hand\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prosthetic right hand in this photo was produced by Omar Soufan &#8217;17 using 3D printing technology. (University photo \/ Omar Soufan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cool met Soufan in 2015 when Soufan called him to ask for advice and assistance with the rehabilitation center project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure isn\u2019t an option for Omar,\u201d Cool says. \u201cIn the summer of 2015, when everyone was leaving Syria, Omar was going back. In matters of life and death, Omar chooses life\u2014not only for himself, but for those he loves, the good people of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Soufan, the project is about fulfilling a commitment. \u201cI made a promise that I was going to make a difference,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m going to keep that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On to the Hult competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Omar Soufan \u201917 and Ibrahim Mohammad \u201917 are part of a University team competing for the Hult Prize. The largest social entrepreneurship competition in the world, the Hult Prize is sponsored jointly by the Hult International Business School and the Clinton Global Initiative. More than 10,000 students from 150 universities around the world will take part.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the team travels to San Francisco for a regional competition for the prize. Winners of the regional finals advance to the international finals in September, with a chance to win the $1 million first prize, plus mentorship from the Hult Business School and the international business community.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Soufan and Mohammad on <em>Team Meliora<\/em> are Edgar Alaniz \u201917, a biochemistry major from Rio Bravo, Mexico; Carlos \u201cYuki\u201d Gonzalez Roman \u201917, a financial economics major from Asuncion, Paraguay; and Min A \u201918, an engineering and business double major from Nei Mongol, China.<\/p>\n<p>The team hopes to form a company that provides sustainable housing, built from recycled plastics, for refugees. The technology was created by the Colombian company Conceptos Pl\u00e1sticos, and already has been used in that country. Team Meliora hopes to take the technology to Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering students Omar Soufan \u201917 (above) and Ibrahim Mohammad \u201917 share a &#8220;hidden passion&#8221; that has led them to create 3-D printed prosthetics for Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":216102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18742,23312,29502,18632,936],"class_list":["post-215892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-department-of-biomedical-engineering","tag-department-of-mechanical-engineering","tag-featured-post-side","tag-hajim-school-of-engineering-and-applied-sciences","tag-memorial-art-gallery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Our goal was simple. 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