Iran's most prestigious photography journal Tassvir organizes the annual

For a lot of young girl like us, the sweet thought of being engaged or married is nothing out of

"Every time I watch a film about African-Americans in the United States and how they

OMID has been working with the international organization VIRTIS recently to train the staff

Volunteers from Washington DC have put on an amazing fundraising event which raised $52,000 for the Omid girls.

12 prominent Iranian artists have joined forces in support of the Omid Foundations. Don't miss this unique opportunity.
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Our volunteers in Boston held a fundraising reception in May with great success. They were lucky enough to have Gisue Hariri as a speaker for the dinner.
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Don't miss out on this unique way of supporting the Omid Foundations. Eleven prominent Iranian photographers are selling their work at very low prices to help us raise money.
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The girls at the Omid-e-Mehr center were lucky enough to enjoy a new year trip to Loft Port in the South of Iran.
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Three stories, told bravely by the girls themselves, of how they came to be at Omid-e-Mehr and how their lives have changed.
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Shadi Ghadirian's Voices of the Other Half exhibition comes to Dubai and London. Order photographs online.
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The first annual Omid Foundation USA fundraising dinner took place in the Washington DC area on 11th November 2011.
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Exhibition in support of the Omid Foundations.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Imagining Identity exhibition is now being shown at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery in London.
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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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Rossi & Rossi are kindly donating a percentage of the sales of their Shapeshifters and Aliens exhibition to the Omid Foundations…
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Bahareh, Elham, Maryam, Mina, Reyhaneh, Sara and Somayeh will be running to support Omid's young girls.
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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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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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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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Exhibition for the benefit of Omid.
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