Afghan coach helps refugee youth return to school in Iran
TEHRAN – Rozma Ghafouri, a 29-year-old sports coach, draws on her own to bring back young refugees and undocumented Afghans aged 11 to 15, unemployed and in school. “Sport is the best way I have found to help children in vulnerable situations open up. After each practice, I talk to them about anything and everything […]
Photo of school in Iran that reopened after 7 months has internet users talking
Schools in Iran reopened to 15 million students on September 5 after being closed for seven months due to the COVD-19 pandemic, and a photo showing the course of a class is circulating the internet. The photo, shared on Twitter by journalist Farnaz Fassihi, showed students sitting in transparent tents. There was a girl in […]
A photo of a school in Iran that reopened after 7 months has netizens talking
Iranian schools reopened to 15 million students on September 5 after remaining closed for seven months due to the COVD-19 pandemic, and a photo showing how a class was going has been making the rounds on the internet. The photo, which was shared on Twitter by journalist Farnaz Fassihi, showed students sitting inside transparent tents. […]
500,000 foreign students go to school in Iran
Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Deputy Minister of Primary Education, made the remarks during an inauguration ceremony of a preschool center for Afghan children in the southeastern Iranian city of Mehmanshahr, Rafsanjan. “I call this day educational justice and children’s rights because Iranian and foreign newcomers are gathered here in a beautiful day of equality and brotherhood, in […]
140,000 children out of school in Iran
TEHRAN – Some 140,000 children are out of school across the country, said Abdolreza Fooladvand, head of Tehran’s education department. “The most important threat to a nation’s capital is the lack of human resources, however, sometimes we have failed to prevent this problem in the country,” he lamented. He went on to say that the […]
Only Turkish school in Iran: A unique education in a modest space
Turkish teenage singer Aleyna Tilki’s recent hit single plays in place of the break bell as it marks the end of another class for around 50 Turkish students at Turkish Embassy Primary School in Tahran. Children rush out of the building during the 10-minute break just to run in a very limited space as the […]
Afghan undocumented refugees get the chance to go to school in Iran
Deadly attacks and fighting have dispersed Afghans across the world. And with more than half of all registered refugees coming from just three countries, Afghanistan ranks second, with 2.5 million people. Almost a million of these refugees are hosted in Iran, where it is estimated that up to 2 million more Afghans live without papers, […]
Undocumented Afghan refugees have a chance to go to school in Iran
Deadly attacks and fighting have scattered Afghans across the world. And with more than half of all registered refugees coming from just three countries, Afghanistan ranks second, with 2.5 million people. Nearly one million of these refugees are hosted in Iran, where it is estimated that up to 2 million additional Afghans live undocumented, without […]
The smallest school in the world in Iran
Source: Press TV The road leading to the small Iranian village of Kalou is marked out in honor of its primary school, now recognized by UNESCO as the smallest in the world. Kalou is a small village located 180 kilometers from Bushehr in the south of Iran; its population consists of 34 people – seven […]