Beloved Armin,

August 29,2016, marks the day of your flight to kingdom of heaven.
Mom, I am informing you and our friends with great joy 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/were the witness to all my efforts and my friends who made this a reality.
I remember that 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, but we needed to raise funds for the second phase which was supposed to happen the next summer. The second phase never happened, due to preventions from government of Iran.

The pictures attached, show the progress of building this high school from day one, to the end. I travelled to Iran for the opening ceremony of the school on the first day of fall 2017

On October 14, 2017, We proudly opened the high school for girls.
You see Armin?! Mom will not get tired of spreading your kindness and pureness throughout the world.
I will spread the pollen’s of love flower all over in your memory.
You will constantly hear “I love you” loudly, from me and all the kids you have impacted.

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”.

I need to mention that having a scarf is mandatory in Islamic laws of Iran. Here are some pictures from the opening ceremony. In most pictures you can see me, and my dear aunt, who supervised this project in Iran, on behalf Armin’s Foundation.

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