FACE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT - DEC 2019

It gives me great pleasure to present FACE Foundation review for the year 2019.
FACE Foundation in its third year as a registered charity in England and Wales, has had its best year ever by:
  • Providing more education, financial and medical support.
  • Working with and supporting more organisations this year.
  • Conducting more projects than any year before.

Putting that into context,
  • Over 1200 individuals received financial support and food packages every month.
  • Over 730 children suffering from mental and physical disadvantages received our medical support.
  • Nearly 1300 school children have received educational aids in 2019.
  • FACE Foundation has proudly partnered with UK Plan International Charity supporting a 4-year project providing safe environment and learning materials for 350 school kids aged between 5 and 11 in Ethiopia. This work started back in May 2018 and will complete by March 2022.
  • We have started supporting a new orphanage in Busher which is receiving magnificent aids from FACE Foundation on permanent basis.
  • We have proudly supported “Ambitious About Autism”, a UK national charity caring for children suffering from Autism.
  • This year we have also started supporting a care centre in Tehran caring for children suffering from Down Syndrome.
  • We have provided huge support to 2 very deprived schools in Shiraz and Shareza near Isfahan. FACE Foundation provided full support for renovating and provision of much need equipment both schools desperately needed.

Lastly, the work that has made us tremendously proud this year is PAKDASHT SEWING PROJECT. This work was initiated by the Ladies Orphan Project team in London and early in 2019, FACE Foundation began full support for an entrepreneurship project which involves setting up a tailoring workshop in Pakdasht near Varamin to train and employ single mums with orphan kids with a chance in a life time to make their own living. FACE Foundation has provided much required equipment, accessories, salaries for teaching/training personnel and other costs of day to day running of the workshop. We currently have 13 women working at the workshop 6 days a week, and it is hoped and planned that by the end of 2020, we will have a total works-force of 37 women, who currently live in absolute poverty.

I would also like to say a big thank you to our fundraisers this year and those individually supporting our good causes. Really without their support, we would have struggled completing all we have done this year. This year, our special thanks go to:

  • Mrs Morvarid Sarrafan
  • Mr Mozafar and Mrs Mahtab Faramarzi
  • Mr Farhad Abbassian
  • Mr Amir Sarbaz
  • Mr Mojtaba Rezvani

Finally, I like to say a huge thank you to all our trustees, contributors and sponsors for their kind generosity and commitment enabling us to help 1,000s of destitute families and children in need.

Dr Mehdi Elhami

Trustee/Director