Festival honouring high-achieving orphans

📍Najaf branch

To advance the educational journey and make orphans' dreams come true
The Orphan Charity Foundation held a festival honouring high-achieving orphans in the grand hall of the Islamic University. The honours covered 61 orphans among the high-achieving students registered with the Foundation, across all school stages.
The Foundation's director, Sayyed Jafar al-Hakim, told the Foundation's news centre: "We have set our sights on the future of the orphans registered with us, so that they may become role models for society to follow and an example of steady success in achieving their own dreams and those of their families."
He added: "Besides our joy at the excellence our children have achieved, this celebration of ours is a good fruit that reflects the Foundation's success in its educational and pedagogical programme. It is a fine and ambitious goal that all our orphans, and our children throughout society, will surely follow, through the creation of a good and successful model and example."
The festival opened with a recitation of verses from the Holy Quran, followed by a speech delivered by the head of the Sponsorship Department, Eng. Raed al-Khalidi, then religious songs commemorating the Noble Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) performed by Sheikh Qasim al-Jubouri. Gifts and sums of money were then distributed to the high-achieving students, and the ceremony concluded with the distribution of pastries and juices to all the