How did ISP begin?
Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak traveled several times to Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness during the time of the 1990-2003 sanctions that did horrible damage to the people of Iraq. In 2005, Gabe and Theresa retired (from publishing and teaching respectively) and moved to Damascus. By early 2007 Damascus held perhaps a million Iraqi refugees, including many young Iraqis who had to leave their college studies to flee Iraq. In Syria, they could not afford to continue their education. The idea of ISP began to develop. By summer Gabe and Theresa had learned of the Bosnian Student Project of the mid-1990s. This served as a model for ISP. After many exploratory conversations in the U.S. in the summer of 2007, a small board of directors incorporated ISP in the State of New York and applied for 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. During the 2007-08 academic year, the U.S. Director, Jane Pitz, sought out tuition waivers from colleges and helped form support groups.
Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak traveled several times to Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness during the time of the 1990-2003 sanctions that did horrible damage to the people of Iraq. In 2005, Gabe and Theresa retired (from publishing and teaching respectively) and moved to Damascus. By early 2007 Damascus held perhaps a million Iraqi refugees, including many young Iraqis who had to leave their college studies to flee Iraq. In Syria, they could not afford to continue their education. The idea of ISP began to develop. By summer Gabe and Theresa had learned of the Bosnian Student Project of the mid-1990s. This served as a model for ISP. After many exploratory conversations in the U.S. in the summer of 2007, a small board of directors incorporated ISP in the State of New York and applied for 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. During the 2007-08 academic year, the U.S. Director, Jane Pitz, sought out tuition waivers from colleges and helped form support groups. Theresa and Gabe worked intensivel
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