October 25, 2024
The majority of schools now being built in Iran are paid for by private donors, both living in Iran and abroad. By contributing 120 trillion rials (about $200 million), school-building benefactors have contributed to the construction of 53 percent of the schools in the current Iranian year, which started March 20.
In 1998, the Association of School-Building Donors was established, with donors allotting 170 billion rials (around $284,000), the state news agency quoted Mohammad-Reza Jafari, the CEO of the School-Building Donors Association, as saying. In the last few years, benefactors’ contributions have tripled. They have undertaken the construction of more than half of the schools, the official added.
There are a total of 400 benefactors, both inside and outside of the country, involved in school building. Over the past three years, more than 7,000 schools with 32,000 classrooms were built in underprivileged areas, the official said.
