Haider started a school for the children of Arabic speakers in Los Angeles.[5] She also ran a Baptist Sunday school for children, and an evening school for young men and women, in the Syrian community there.[6] With some backing from a local Syrian businessman, Phares Behanessey, she raised funds with a 1909 gala event in which Los Angeles society women, dressed in their "picturesque" interpretations of Middle Eastern attire, performed in a pageant.[7]