Dinner and fundraising in Washington DC
The first annual Omid Foundation USA fundraising dinner took place in the Washington DC area on 11th November 2011.
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News
February 2012
January 2012
Colour of Love — Artists for Hope
Exhibition in support of the Omid Foundations.
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January 2012
The girls visit the Shargh Newspaper!
This week, the girls learning journalism at the Omid-e-Mehr center, had an amazing trip to the offices of the Shargh Newspaper in Tehran.
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November 2011
Omid greeting cards for the festive season
Every year we select a number of paintings and photographs created by our girls in our photography and art workshops and reproduce them on greeting cards.
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November 2011
Omid-e-Mehr girls win photo contest
Work by two girls from the Omid-e-Mehr center in Tehran, has been selected as winners in a prestigious photo contest.
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October 2011
Have a look at our new awareness raising wristbands
We are delighted to launch our new Omid Foundation wristbands to help raise awareness of the work we do with vulnerable young women in Tehran.
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October 2011
Read MG’s story
Recently we asked the girls at the Omid-e-Mehr center in Tehran to write a story. They could decide
whether it was fiction or a real life account of something that had happened to them. The results were really
moving and we wanted to share just one of the stories.
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October 2011
Imagining Identity comes to London
The Imagining Identity exhibition is now being shown at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery in London.
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September 2011
Conquering the south front of Mount Damavand
At the end of August, Maryam Rajaei, Basheer Shadravan and Mohammad Chalipour set out to climb the south front of Mount Damavand.
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September 2011
The Shapeshifters and Aliens exhibition comes to London
Rossi & Rossi are kindly donating a percentage of the sales of their Shapeshifters and Aliens exhibition to the Omid Foundations…
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August 2011
Seven runners for Omid at Adidas 5K Challenge
Bahareh, Elham, Maryam, Mina, Reyhaneh, Sara and Somayeh will be running to support Omid's young girls.
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August 2011
Rowena Razak runs for Omid at the Run to the Beat Half Marathon
June 2011
The girls at the Omid-e-Mehr center learn about AIDS
The young women at the center were able to visit a workshop on HIV and AIDS at the
Imam Khomeini Hospital AIDS Research Center in Tehran. The workshop was headed by
Dr. Minoo Mohraz, a prominent Iranian AIDS specialist and her team.
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May 2011
Alleyn's School (London) students reach across the divide to support disadvantaged girls in Tehran
Dulwich (London) is a long way from Tehran, and the life that the students of the Alleyn's School (London)
experience in comparison to the young people being helped by Omid Foundations, could
not be further apart. But, knowing that they were young girls "just like us but without the
opportunities" drove students at the Alleyn's School (London) to raise almost £5,000 for
their counterparts in Tehran.
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May 2011
The Omid Foundations reveal their new-look Facebook pages!
Whilst the charity have had a presence on Facebook for years now, the new-look pages will help spread the message about their work.
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June 2008
Hope Exhibition
Exhibition for the benefit of Omid.
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