TEHRAN - A total of 110 new schools were inaugurated by Barekat Charity Foundation in deprived areas across the country on Tuesday.

The schools have 460 classrooms. The foundation provided 5,780 billion rials (some $11.56 million) to build the schools, IRIB reported.

So far, the total number of Barekat schools has reached 2,110 with 10,500 classrooms.

According to the memorandum of understanding signed between Barekat Foundation and the Ministry of Education, the number of schools to be built by this charity will reach 3,330 with 14,000 classrooms in the future.

Constructed schools

On September 3, Barekat Charity Foundation announced that the construction of around 200 new schools in underprivileged areas will be completed by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2024).

The 2,000th school built by the Foundation was inaugurated in the previous year, IRIB reported.

Currently, more than 705 other schools are being completed in different parts of the country with the cooperation of the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment of Schools.

In August, the Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment of Schools announced the number of newly built schools across the country has increased by 104 percent over the past two years.

On a daily basis, 47 new classrooms have been constructed all over the country during the past two years, IRNA reported.

More than 10,000 new classrooms were projected to be inaugurated by the end of the past Iranian calendar month (September 22), the report added.

On July 11, the 25th conference on honoring school-building benefactors was held at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran.

Addressing the conference, First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber said investing in education and manpower training is the root and basis of any country's development, and this starts from schools, IRNA reported.

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