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Farhangian Educators Association is a non-profit organization registered on 2014 in British Columbia, Canada. We are a group of practicing or retired teachers and professors, researchers, and individuals who are interested in k – 12 educational activities and programs for Iranians who live abroad Iran. Our mission is to help Iranian students with the services that are not expected to be received from their hosting country. This is included but not limited to preparing Farsi as second language textbooks and materials, presenting educational work-shops about bullying at schools, training tutors and instructors who hold Farsi classes with the code of conducts with the students and parents who live outside of Iran, promoting other cultural and educational activities that are educationally sound, advocating educational needs of Iranians as a whole or in particular school districts.
Address:
3000 Albion Drive, BC, V3B 6W9
Phone: 16048092294
Email: bcfarhangian@yahoo.com
The first Board of Directors for the year 2014/2015
Ali Tootian – Chair
Mitra Khoubyar – Vice Chair
Keighobad Esmaeilpour – Secretary
Naghmeh Babayee - Technical Advisor
Lida Ghaffari
The Second Board of Directors for the year 2015/2016
Ali Tootian – Chair
Keighobad Esmailpour – Vice Chair
Nasim Mostafavi – Secretary
Shokouh Saleh - Treasurer
Alireza Bataghva Shahbaz
Naghmeh Babayee - technical advisor of the group.
Here's a list of some of our members and a short biography about what they do within our company
and their other activites as well. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Kei ghobad Esmaeilpour
Kei has a. B.Sc in engineering and is a certified project manager (PMP), with a passion for educational and social advocacy. Since immigrating to Canada, he has been an active member of the Iranian-Canadian community through his volunteer work and community development initiatives, including his collaboration with dozens of local, nonpartisan NGOs to promote multiculturalism, cross cultural ism, electoral turnout and political awareness. In 2013, he was conferred the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his contributions to his community. Previously based at University of British Columbia as a biomedical engineering technologist, Kei assumed the role of technical adviser to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in 2014. Upon returning from MSF missions across Africa and Asia, he began working with the Doctors Without Borders Western Canada Association and the Education Without Borders non-governmental organization. Today, he continues his efforts to foster educational and civic awareness in the Iranian-Canadian community in Canada and outside Canada in Uganda and South Africa.
Ali Tootian
Ali, a B.Sc. in metallurgy engineering from SBU, migrated to Canada in 1999. He received his teaching certificate on 2003 and his M.Sc. on secondary mathematics education on 2009 both from SFU. As a principal and teacher, Ali worked at Islamic College of British Columbia for two years, improving the category of school from 3 to 1. As the result, school was 50% founded by the Ministry of Education. Since 2005, he is a secondary teacher at School District 43 (Coquitlam). Ali is a social activist. His services to the Iranian community of Lower-mainland has been included but not limited to serving as a board member for three years in Burnaby Multicultural Society, one year in Burnaby Ethno-cultural Advisory Council, founding Echo-Tricity, the first Iranian society in Tri-cities, leading Tri-City Iranian Cultural Society for half a term, and founding/leading Farhangian Educators Association. The wellness of Iranians and the cultural and educational growth of them has been the major task for Ali in these years. Ali’s passion on the success of Iranian students has been a driving force for providing voluntarism for the students, consulting students and their parents, presenting educational workshops such as “Bullying at Schools,” and promoting positive thinking and approaches toward migration and multiculturalism.