To my Beloved Armin,

August 29,2016, marks the day of your journey to kingdom of heaven.
I am writing with great joy to let you and all our friends know that our dream of building a school in your name is a reality now.
My dearest, with the help of friends and family, we built a high school for girls in a village named Zaghe, in surrounding rural areas of Hamedan, Iran.
This year with the funds we gathered, we were able to build classrooms for 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th graders, with an office, three bathrooms, a library and a pantry.
Before, there was a girls’ school in this place that had 1st grade through 9th. This school was so congested that bathrooms were used as classrooms; in fact the capacity was 150 students but there were 306 students in there. The girls had to go and sit at home after ninth grade, marry, and be dependent on a male figure for their life.
By building a completely separate high school, we will helped to reduce the number of students in the old school, and at the same time enable the girls to be able to get a high school diploma and eventually on the way to college, to become independent and liberated from their traditional conventions, which had imprisoned them.
Armin, you are the witness to all efforts made by our great friends and me who made this a reality.
I requested help via FB and email, and I could gather enough funds in Iran and here in US, to build the first phase of this project. The second phase was supposed to happen the following summer to give us more time to raise funds. The second phase never happened, due to preventions from government of Iran.

On October 14, 2017, We proudly opened the high school for girls.
With the hope to uproot the ignorance one school at a time throughout the world.
The ignorance that is the mother of all miseries and adversities.
For my life, “I Love You”.

The pictures attached, show the progress of building this high school from day one, to the end and pictures from the opening ceremony. I travelled to Iran for the opening ceremony of the school on the first day of fall 2017. In most pictures you can see me, and my dear aunt, who supervised this project in Iran, on behalf Armin’s Foundation.

Please note that wearing a scarf/hejab is mandatory in Islamic Republic of Iran.

️مدرسه زنده‌یاد «آرمین شریفی» که به همت بنیاد آرمین در روستای زاغه همدان ساخته شده