FACE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT - DEC 2021
It gives me great pleasure once again to present FACE Foundation review for the year 2021.
Despite the challenges we experienced this year following the COVID-19 pandemic, FACE Foundation once again, has managed to sustain its life changing support for many in need. FACE Foundation has had most constructive and remarkably successful year. A summary of the main activities undertaken during the year for the public benefit in relation to the charity’s objectives is as follows.
FACE Foundation provided monthly food packages to hundreds of families living in poverty who have no other means of supporting themselves. These families include those residing in deprived villages of Manjil Abad and Robat Karim, located some 50 kilometres south of Tehran. These people suffer from poor health and their children are not able to concentrate at school due to an extreme lack of nutrition. Our relief aid ensures that each family consisting of 3 to 4 members, has at least one hot meal per day. The food packages provided comprised rice, pasta, meat, poultry, cooking oil, sugar and tea, various types of pulses and other essential nutrients. In addition, help was provided to families needing medical and financial support on a continuous basis.
FACE Foundation supported, and continues to support, rehabilitation institutions caring for physically and mentally disadvantaged children. Support includes medical and sanitation supplies, plus clothing and bedding needs.
FACE Foundation has continued it support for our Down Syndrome care centre, caring for 18 children. Our on-going support includes full centre costs including monthly rent of premises, teaching equipment and provision of activities for the children.
FACE Foundation has proudly continued its partnering with Plan International UK charity to support and deliver long-term, sustainable programmes which transform children’s lives in some of the world’s poorest countries. The “Safe school for refugees in Ethiopia” project aims to transform the lives of thousands of children. The project protects children, both refugees and those from host communities, in Gambella’s refugee camps and gets them back into education. By boosting education for both newcomers and local children, the most vulnerable are kept safe and given the chance to learn. The project is expected to be concluded by February 2022.
We are also proud to have been able to respond to Coronavirus emergency by providing essential food and hygiene kits for the destitute and families with no income in most deprived locations following the outbreak in 2020 and in 2021. We have also provided over 5,000 PPE items to institutions caring for disadvantaged children and families.
FACE Foundation has provided full support for an entrepreneurship project called “The Pakdasht Sewing Workshop”. This work involved setting up a tailoring workshop to train and employ single mums with orphan kids with a chance in a lifetime to make their own living. FACE Foundation provides much required equipment, accessories, salaries for teaching/training personnel and other costs of day to day running of the workshop.
FACE Foundation successfully completed construction of a substantial orphanage nursery establishment to house and care for up to 80 orphaned and abandoned children, from newly born babies to 3-year-old toddlers. This much needed nursery consists of 28 rooms across 3 floors.
FACE Foundation has been supporting number of villages in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, south of Iran, providing them with clean water and construction of sanitation services. We have installed much needed Water Tanks at 60 different locations feeding hundreds of families from remote and deprived villages, plus construction of 3 sanitation services.
Our latest project is aimed at empowering young girls through education. FACE Foundation has committed to construct 2 educational establishment in areas in desperate need of such facilities in Southern provinces in Iran. This work covers a 10-classroom secondary school for girls and a 3-classroom school for pupils aged 6 to 11.
Achievements and Performance
We provide a range of support in pursuance of our charitable aims. The trustees believe that our activities and support benefit those struggling with their most basic survival needs.
Our monthly provision of much needed medicine, medical equipment and food has had an immensely positive impact on maintaining hygiene and high spirits, as well improving the physical and mental health of hundreds of mentally and physically disadvantaged children being cared for in three different rehabilitation centres. The happiness and physical comfort that result from creating a safer environment through renovation works and the provision of heating and cooling systems, hot water etc., is clear to see.
The distribution of monthly based food packages to hundreds of families has directly resulted in more stability within families and has improved their overall health by removing the lack of nourishment. Children from these families have been reported to be doing better at school with more focus on their studies, because of improved health.
The educational support given to thousands of pupils, including construction of schools, insurance, fees, books and learning material, school uniforms, clothing, and the creation of a safe environment, have given them a much-deserved chance of having a decent education and hopes for a better future.
We are proud that the Charity’s trustees all work as volunteers with no financial gain and with complete transparency and full commitment, which is why every penny raised goes directly to those in need.
Principal funding source
Charity’s funds are raised through contributions by the trustees and the community. This is performed through a range of activities including social events, social media marketing, and communication with network of friends and families.
Dr Mehdi Elhami
Trustee/Director