Canada welcomed a large number of Syrians involved in the war of the summer of 2016.
We wanted to help them and we decided to set up a large garage sale for them.
The Parya Foundation agreed to provide us with the large parking along with the tables and umbrella. In this huge sale, a large number of Iranians residing in Canada participated and helped sell their equipment to help buy the necessary supplies needed for the refugees to start their lives here. The campaign was also sponsored by all Iranian media outlets in Toronto.
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.
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 this campaign, we decided to send help to 6 cancer patients who were waiting for our help for a long time for their treatment.
In this campaign, the amount of 8215.70 dollars was collected, as well as 26 million and seven hundred thousand toomans (equivalent to 700 dollars).
The total amount of donations was 8916 dollars and was divided equally among 6 people. ($1486 per person)
The dollar price was 38 thousand 400 toomans.
An amount of 57,630,000 toomans was sent to each of them.
In order to prevent the execution of a 15-year-old boy who was arrested during the protests, a man from abroad became his guardian, thus preventing his execution.
This guardian paid all the lawyer's fees. After that, 100 million Toomans should have been transferred to the government account, of which 20 million Toomans were missing.
This boy was introduced to us by one of the members. We were able to collect 1267 dollars and this amount was more than what they needed.
Bahram was a 62 years old and he was introduced by one of our members. He was waiting for his turn to receive our help for his heart surgery , he had to work hard, unfortunately during his work his heart vein ruptured and he underwent emergency surgery at Milad Hospital. Milad Hospital isn’t private, so it was not expensive.
We collected 1992 dollars, our members decided that we divided this money, so we gave 11 million tomans to Bahram, and 750 dollars were divided between two sick women, Shahla, who had breast cancer and Masoume, who needed intestinal surgery.
At first, we started a campaign to help Fatima, a woman with cervical cancer who had a disabled child and was the head of family.
In the middle of the our campaign, one of the members took over all the expenses of this family, as a result, the help was gave to the next person, who was in turn to receive our help.
Mohammadreza was 57 years old and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Since then, he lost his ability to work, due to a mass attached to the nerve behind his stomach; he suffered a lot of pain.
Shiva is a girl that the group has known for the past 4 years. A strong and brave girl who was fighting cancer. Unfortunately, Shiva found out about her illness when a cancerous mass had spread from her intestine to her liver. Shiva needed a nurse in the last month, especially at night. Ms. Ziba agreed to take care of her at a very reasonable price. The amount paid to her was $1820 with the receipt attached. The rest of the members who bought or prepared food for Shiva during this period didn’t receive any money.
Borhan is a 43-year-old man from a northern city in Iran who was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year and had previously had part of his stomach removed.Unfortunately, he has recently had a new involvement in the intestinal tract, and according to his doctor, this mass must be removed with surgery, after which he needs radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Burhan couldn't afford such a thing and asked our group for help. This campaign, accompanied by 140 people, was able to raise $ 5,000 + 20 million Tomans in a short period of time.