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‘They’re very friendly’: Markham couple opens home for youths struggling with housing 360°kids seeks community hosts for emergency accommodation Nightstop program Irene Wong | Markham Economist & Sun While a cold blizzard was approaching the GTA just before Christmas Eve, Bahram and Mitra Jam received a message from 360°kids that a youth might need emergency… Continue reading Markham couple opens home for youths struggling with housing

Earlier in January the Senior Citizen’s Center in Navsari celebrated its 25th Anniversary. Parsi Khabar were honoured to have been invited for the function. Below is a write up by our dear friend and WZO Trust Funds Trustee Freyaz Shroff published in the Parsi Times. In a discussion with Bachi and Dinshaw Tamboly, the late… Continue reading Silver Anniversary Celebrations At WZO Trust Funds’ Bai Maneckbai P P Jeejeebhoy Senior Citizens Centre, Navsari

Our dear friend, young entrepreneur and CEO of HumSafer Jehaan Kotwal has come out with an app for truck drivers that is designed to save lives, and make trucking safe. Humsafer users technology to reduce road accidents in India. Below is a short clip from the BBC series “People Fixing The World”

Parsi Khabar is saddened to hear about the passing away of Frene Noshir Ginwala, a leading freedom fighter in South Africa, and the first speaker of an independent South Africa. Our dear friend Zerbanoo Gifford, President of the World Zoroastrian Organization, knew Frene well; and shares her thoughts on Frene and her passing. Frene Ginwalla… Continue reading South African Freedom Fighter Frene Noshir Ginwala passes away: An Obituary

Mumbai’s Parsis mourn passing of legend Dr Tehemton E Udwadia as they remember a man grand in talent, spirit Surgeon and gastroenterologist Dr Tehemton Erach Udwadia passed away on Saturday, bringing a somber, reflective end to the first week of the New Year. The father of laparoscopic surgery in India, took his leave from earth… Continue reading Dr Tehemton Udwadia: We all mourn his loss, says Mumbai’s Parsi community

Incentive Scheme for Encouraging Boarders to join Dadar Athornan Institute The Dadar Athornan Institute (DAI) established in 1919 by the Athornan Mandal, Mumbai is the only seminary that provides Zoroastrian youth from Athornan families completely gratis training in religious rites and rituals as well as arranges for their secular education in a school of repute.… Continue reading Incentive scheme for students at Dadar Athornan Institute