Fatemeh's face as burned 17 years ago when she was only 40 days old. For the first nine years of Fatemeh's life, her parents had been taking her to different hospitals in Ahvaz for reconstructive surgeries on her face and eyes. Until the doctors told them that they to wait until she reaches her maturity age to do more plastic surgery. 

Now that she is 17, the parent has resumed her medical procedures using loans and their friends' donations, but it is not enough. So far, Fatemeh has had four surgeries on her eyes and four on her face, but she needs eight more operations which are beyond her family's financial ability.

Fatemeh always had excellent GPA in her primary and middle schools, but in the last two years, her GPA has dropped due to constant trips to Tehran for medical visits and surgeries. She studies science in high school and always wanted be a scientist.

Fatemeh is a resilience girl who, against all the odds, has survived this accident and fought her way to stand on her feet. It is time for us to help her finish the surgeries and get on with her life and love of becoming a fantastic scientist.

Please donate to Fatemeh's Fund and read more about her, here .

Child Foundation's most popular program around this time of year has been " One Thousand Baskets for One Thousand Families". Last year, we were able to help more than one thousand families in different countries.

The program is usually initiated just before the start of the month of Ramadan, which is the traditional month of fasting, but also of genuine selflessness and display of charity to others. 

The program's success and popularity mainly comes from its simple but powerful message of providing a month's worth of dietary allowance for 1,000 families around the world-- all at a time when food is most often scarce and prices too high.

As you know, Child Foundation is NOT a religious organization, nor does it ever get involved with projects like this based on religious or ideological grounds. What we are doing is providing the most basic of necessities (in this case, food) to families with children during a time of year when the need is probably highest and the pressure is simply too much to bear alone.

This year, we estimate the cost of these families' food packages at $50 for small and $90 for larger families.

To participate, please click here

Khal Mohammad, Hamidollah, and Alim were victims of terrorists in Afghanistan. Khal Mohammad was working as a package courier when he was hired to deliver a package to a bank. He didn't know that there was a bomb inside which exploded as he got to the bank. Hamidollah and Allim were moving their cattle to a field when they accidentally walked into a minefield.

We reported their situation in our April 2016, January, 2017, and March 31 newsletter. 

We are happy to report that we were able to send Khal-Mohammad and Hamidollah to Italy for further medical care and getting a new prostatic leg. Thanks to Soraia, our wonderful volunteer who arranged their medical treatment in Italy for free.

All three young boys are still in need of medical treatment. If you wish to help them, please donate to their medical fund here.

Pictures of Khal Mohammad:
1- A few days after explosion (Feb 2016), 2- In hospital (March 2016), 3- In Hospital (April 2016), 4- Feels better (Jan 2017), 5 - Arriving in Italy (May 2017), 6- Starting their treatments (May 2017), 7- New prostate leg (June 2017), 8- and finally the first step (June 2017).