Your Support, Our Hard Work, Another Successful Year! We thank you from the Bottom of our Hearts!

 Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children Society held its 4^th Annual Dinner on June 4^th, 2010. It was a night of music, dance, food, culture and family and friends getting together to contribute to a great cause as well as enjoy an enthralling night at the Crystal Banquet Hall in Surrey, B.C. The BOHFACS raised over $ 16,000 and is grateful for your generosity and support. It is important to emphasis that we rely on our supporters and donors to carry out this humanitarian mission successfully. Like previous years, this year a member will volunteer to travel to Afghanistan to deliver supplies to our sponsored hospital, brighten children’s experience at the schools by delivering them school supplies for the new school year and also deposit money for our families.

Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children Society is also proud to announce that this year we will be sponsoring five additional families.  With your help and support we are looking forward to supporting more and more families each year. The little that we do here makes a huge difference in many lives and definitely contributes in maintaining their hopes. Knowing that someone out there is helping them is comforting for many of these poor children and families. Each year, they look forward to receiving our help. You have done your share of work by participating in such a humanitarian cause and yes be very proud and continue to make a difference.

Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children Society team would like to take this opportunity and once again extend our gratitude to our performers who volunteered their time and talent to make the event extra exciting. The performers were from the BC Dance Academy, an Afghan all Boys Attan team (Traditional Afghan Dance), and many young and very gifted singers and musicians. We thank you for your time and effort and are looking forward to seeing you in our future events.  Please visit our picture gallery for images of their performances.

Lastly, the BOHFACS would like to leave you all with a statement from one of our guests at the Benefit Dinner: He said, “It’s so important that we embrace the idea of giving back and living generously because that is an opportunity to help humanity our way and it’s the easiest way to make difference while eating, dancing and being surrounded by beautiful people so WHY NOT!”

Picture of the two students and their teacher, Ray Sawatsky. Mr. Ray Sawatsky should be credited for his creative ways of incorporating philanthropy in class room education and inspiring his students to get involved charity work. Adela Wafa ( the Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children Society's Treasurer) is also seen in the picture picking up the cheque.

Froozan Jooya, President of Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children Society was interviewed by two grade 12 students, India Parhar and Austin Stapleton, from Langley Fundamental Middle & Secondary School. $5000 was given to the school by “PRADO HOLDINGS INC.” The class was tasked to choose between 15 charities that made a difference internationally. Out of 15 Charities, 3 were chosen and each charity was given a prize, with the first prize being $5000 cash. BEACON OF HOPE was chosen as the top WINNER out of the the 15 by the grade 12 class.

The following article is written by India and Austin. It is their account of why and how Beacon of Hope emerged as the Winner!

When Austin and I were given the project of interviewing, researching, and presenting a charity for a global education project our first thought was that we wanted to represent a cause that we were incredibly drawn towards. After hours of scanning through various charities in the lower mainland area we were fortunate to find Beacon of Hope for Afghan Children. While reading up on Beacon of Hope’s work in Afghanistan Austin and I were immediately touched with what the charity was doing to improve the lives of children and families. Becoming knowledgeable on country impacted by war was a helpful push as we became more insightful on worldly issues and how important it is for people like us to get involved. The issues we learned about and the stories we were told while interviewing Froozan opened our eyes to the tragedies that many of us turn away from. As a result of the passion instilled in our hearts for the children of Afghanistan we were able to give a touching and informative presentation to our class about the aspects of this charity. Viewing our classmates expressions as we gave our speech reminded me that people care deeply about what is going on in our world regardless of what country or how far away the problems are occurring. We just need to spread awareness. In our opinion that is the key step towards people becoming more compassionate.
When our class finally reached a verdict on which charity would be receiving the $5000 it was no surprise to us that Beacon of Hope was the clear winner. The other two charities in the top two were doing extraordinary work as well, however Beacon of Hope was the most deserving candidate. The lack of funding and the extreme need was heartbreaking for Austin and I, as well as our classmates. I speak for my whole Global Education class when I say that I know the money will be put towards an amazing and worthy cause: giving children a fair chance to succeed in life.

-India Parhar and Austin Stapleton