Mehregan Festival 2025,

After two months of dedicated effort, the Mehregan Festival was successfully held on Saturday and Sunday, October 4th and 5th, in Richmond Hill — and it truly turned out to be one of our best events yet!
This year, an incredible number of people came together to make this festival as wonderful as our community deserves. Below is a summary of our amazing team and supporters:

    Gold Sponsors:

•Farnaz. A. Tavakoli – Immigration Consultant- Road To Future

Following the explosion at Rajaee Port in Bandar Abbas, many dock workers and truck drivers tragically lost their lives. In response, we came together to raise funds and offer support to the families of the victims.
Fortunately, the same team that previously delivered housing units on our behalf to earthquake victims in Khoy kindly agreed to travel to Bandar Abbas. With the help of a local insurance representative, they obtained a list of names and contact numbers of several affected families.

As in previous years, we decided to prepare and donate New Year food packages and traditional sweets for underprivileged children and their families.
To support this cause, we organized a festival called Valentine, where we rented out vendor tables and dedicated all proceeds to benefit the children.
You can see the process and highlights of this initiative through the photo gallery below.

We launched a heartfelt campaign to support a 19-year-old mother of 8-month-old twins, who had been diagnosed with colon cancer and urgently needed surgery, chemotherapy, and extended care. With her husband being visually impaired, the young family was facing overwhelming financial and emotional challenges, relying heavily on her as the primary source of income.

This year, our school named Avand was built in the village of Maidan (Anark), located in the Bam Pusht district of Sirkan.

Construction began in May, and thanks to the generous contributions raised during the Mehrgan Festival, the full cost of the project was successfully covered. Avand is the sixth school built through the collective efforts of the dedicated members of our group.

Today, the school is fully operational, and children are already attending classes—turning a shared dream into a lasting reality.

Mahsa is a 24-year-old woman battling cancer. Due to her young age, she had never undergone a mammogram, and tragically, the cancer had already spread to surrounding tissues by the time it was discovered. She lost her job as a shop assistant four months ago and has been unable to work since. Mahsa’s story is marked by deep loss—she also lost her father in the Kermanshah earthquake.

Kourosh is a young man whom we helped treat his cancer a year or two ago. Unfortunately, his cancer returned and spread to his stomach. He had to have surgery. We helped together again and $2,410 was raised. Cyrus returned to the hospital for treatment and we hope he can beat the cancer.

In the village of Kent, located in Sistan, 323 children attend school. However, the existing school has only four classrooms—far from enough to accommodate this growing number of students. To help address this issue, we made the decision to build a second school right next to the original one.

With the addition of this new building, the two schools can now operate in two shifts—morning and afternoon—allowing all 323 children to receive an education in a more manageable and supportive environment.

Each year, as the school season begins, we turn our attention to working children—those who must juggle both education and earning a living. These young ones, who carry the weight of supporting their families, often can't afford even the most basic school supplies.

To support them, we selected one of the underprivileged regions and reached out to the local school to identify the number of students in need. We then purchased and distributed backpacks and stationery for every single one of them.

Every year, as Nowruz approaches, we remember the working children—those who labor tirelessly across our country. Some are forced to drop out of school, while others juggle their studies with difficult jobs at intersections and on the streets. The work they do is far too heavy for their young age and a clear violation of their childhood rights.