Omid Foundation
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Filmed and directed by Hamid Rahmanian and written and produced by Melissa Hibbard, this film is a unique way to see how OMID works and to find out more about the girls who need our help.
Read Setareh Sabety’s Iranian.com article
DVD (in Jewel Case). Prices include packing and shipping. Running time: 92 minutes
OMID Foundation is featured in an award-winning documentary called The Glass House.
The fringes of Iranian society can be a lonely place, especially if you are a teenage girl with few resources to fall back on. The Glass House follows four girls striving to pull themselves out of the margins by attending a one-of-kind rehabilitation at the OMID center in uptown Tehran. Forget about the Iran that you’ve seen before. With a virtually invisible camera, the girls of OMID take us on a never-before-seen tour of the underclass of Iran with their brave and defiant stories: Samira struggles to overcome forced drug addiction; Mitra harnesses abandonment into her creative writing; Sussan teeters on a dangerous ledge after years of sexual abuse; and Nazila burgeons out of her hatred with her blazing rap music. This ground-breaking documentary reflects a side of Iran few have access to or paid attention to: a society lost to its traditions with nothing meaningful to replace them and a group of courageous women working to instill a sense of empowerment and hope into the minds and lives of otherwise discarded teenage girls.
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Every fundraising event is an opportunity to raise awareness, educate and inform. Every volunteer makes a difference. There are lots of ways you can get involved with the OMID and help make a difference to the lives of young women in Iran.