Foreign seminary students help Iranian flood victims

Rasa – Contributions by Iranian and foreign seminarians to the flood victims of Iran ‎continues.‎

News ID: 444336

Date: 14 April 2019 - 23:08

RNA – Contributions to the flood victims of Iran continue from Iranian and foreign ‎seminarians living and studying in Qom.‎

In this regard, foreign seminarians studying at al-Mustafa International University in Qom ‎have gathered a sum of forty million rials (approximately $300 US) to help the victims of the ‎recent floods in Iran.‎
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Despite the fact that many seminarians studying at al al-Mustafa International University ‎are ‎living in difficult conditions, the process of collecting donations to donate to Iranian flood ‎victims from them continues.‎
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Foreign students from al-Mustafa International University didn’t suffice with donating cash ‎and a number of them were directly involved by travelling to the flood-hit areas in Lorestan ‎province and assisting the people.‎

Currently, there are about 17,000 foreign students in Qom from over 120 different countries. ‎

Unprecedented rainfall has caused major floods in the provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran, ‎Gilan, Kordestan, Lorestan, Fars, North Khorasan, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and ‎Boyer-Ahmad, and Sistan and Baluchestan.‎

Estimates by government agencies suggest that the floods have taken the lives of at least ‎‎67 people, injured nearly 800, and destroyed over 25,000 houses around the country.‎

Lorestan, which has been partnered with Qom for relief, is said to have suffered the second ‎highest amount of casualties after Fars province.‎

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