Keep Children In School Foundation

Meet Mr. Nader Musavi, the Principal and face behind Farhang School- one of our biggest educational group project efforts. An Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2021 nominee and once an immigrant student himself, this educator has devoted his life to help more students stay in school. Learn more about him and his commitment to education by clicking on the link below:

Bahar is a bright and beautiful 14-year-old student who just finished 9th grade with outstanding grades. She lives with her parents and 4 siblings in a very small rental house. As a construction worker working on a day-to-day basis, her father struggles to make ends meet. You can help more students, just like Bahar, make their dreams come true! Click here to help students like Bahar achieve their greatest potential: https://bit.ly/3gotCWD

We carefully match sponsors directly to children whose families cannot afford to keep them in school, thus enabling them to continue their education from elementary school through college. In addition to individual sponsorship, KCIS cultivates partnerships with other nonprofit organizations with common goals to provide a wide spectrum of educational services to those in the most desperate of circumstances.

During Spring semester, our first graders at Farhang School have to learn the alphabet and then write their names. When they get it right, they get to wear a crown with their name on it. To celebrate the achievement, they also get a special treat of chocolates . This is one of our bright first graders, Mina, who just accomplished this major task! She wants to be a doctor or a nurse one day. With her dedication, intelligence and skill we have no doubt that she will! Thank you for making her dreams come true step by step ! #TestimonialTuesday

We are proud to partner with institutions like Farhang School in Tehran, who share our commitment to helping underprivileged students and our passion for education. The primary school needs your support to help keep more of its students in school. Please consider making a donation by clicking this link: https://keepchildreninschool.org/donate/

Did you know that our individual sponsorship program, like our mission, follows a holistic approach to education? This means that besides providing financial aid for our students' education, your donations as a sponsor are used to provide mental and emotional wellness services, healthcare, family empowerment and other forms of help to our students in a holistic manner. In this way, we truly set our students up for success! Learn more about our individual sponsorship program by clicking the link below:

Be that caring adult for an underprivileged student who needs your guidance. When you sponsor a student in need, KCIS spins a cocoon of support and protection around that child throughout his/her education. As a sponsor, your donations would cover any thing needed for him/her to stay in school. If wanted, as a sponsor you could also establish a one-on-one relationship with your sponsored student and provide further guidance through his/her educational journey. Sponsorship costs $600 for a full year ($50 per month or $1.65 per day). To learn more, click here: https://bit.ly/3m9Ghh5

You could sponsor one of our students and join the KCIS Family! Sponsorship costs $600 for a full year ($50 per month or $1.65 per day). For this nominal amount, your sponsored student will be fully supported throughout the calendar year with the following: Monthly stipend Tuition assistance Book purchase... Computer and laptop purchase University entrance exam preparatory courses Dental services Psychological services Annual Back to School gift cards Annual Nowruz gift cards Extracurricular programs such as: language classes, omputer classes and art/music and sports classes See more

After a year of following social distance measures, some of our Board Members met outside safely for an informal Spring gathering! A big thank you to these incredible individuals, and to the rest of our Board Members, for fighting relentlessly to help us keep more children in school! #MeetKCIS

If you wish to help us break the cycle of poverty, there are many ways you can do so. Here are a number of ways that you can help! To learn more about how you can get involved with our organization, click here: https://keepchildreninschool.org/get-involved/

Congratulations to French author and fairytale master, Jean-Claude Mourlevat, for winning his first Astrid Lindgren Award today. It was an honor to have two of our partners be amongst the candidates for this prestigious recognition.

These number speak for themselves. With your continued support and donations, we intent keep these numbers growing. Every donation you make helps us get one more student onto a better path through the power of education! To learn more about how you can get involved and join our mission to break the cycle of poverty through education, click here: https://keepchildreninschool.org/get-involved/

At the end of the month, the jury of the Astrid Linden Awards will announce the winners. One of the nominees is our very own Principal Nader Mousavi from Farhang School. This image, taken almost a decade ago, is the perfect personification of the love and joy Mr. Mousavi brings to his students and to the educational community. Once an immigrant student himself, Mousavi understands the educational challenges some of our students face and works hand-in-hand with each and every one of them to help them overcome these difficulties. For this and so many other reasons, we are proud to stand behind educators like him! To learn more about his nomination, click here: https://alma.se/en/

We are proud to support to nominees to this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Read With Me and Principal Nader Mousavi from Farhang School. But why are these Awards such an incredible recognition, you ask? The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is one way of contributing to a more peaceful, more humane world. The award’s international focus and its substantial award amount testify that children’s culture is important and deserves our most serious attention. Only the best authors, storytellers and reading promoters from around the world are nominated for the recognition. Winners will be announced on March 30th. Best of luck to our partner nominees!

At KCIS we believe in taking a holistic approach to education, which includes a students' mental wellbeing. With a tough upbringing, Ahmad suffered from some childhood trauma. He shared his memories, fears, and feelings as he read a class poem to principal Nader Mousavi. Mr. Mousavi and the rest of Ahmad’s educators at Farhang School which also believes in the importance of mental wellbeing for students to be truly successful academically have been working closely with Ahmad to help him heal his childhood trauma and to help him reprocess dark memories and replace them with new ones of friendship and happiness made at school. Hear more of Ahmad’s story here:

Join in on Marzi Khansary's birthday celebrations all while supporting our cause! Help her reach her birthday fundraiser goal by making a donation now. Every dollar will go to helping underprivileged students continue their education. Thank you in advance!