Established in 2018 and brilliantly spearheaded by dynamic Trustees Freyaz Shroff (Founder), Dinshaw Tamboly, Rashna Cooper and Ami Mediretta, ‘Pehchaan’ – an initiative of the KurNiv Foundation – has come a long way in supporting and promoting the education and overall wellbeing of children from the underprivileged strata of society. Team ‘Pehchaan’, comprising young and […]
WZO Trusts are pleased to inform that the first consignment of food grains and hygiene related utilities have been despatched on May 06, 2020 to Zoroastrians residing in villages of Mandvi and Mangrol areas, who have been financially affected due to the ongoing Covid19 – Pandemic. List of families affected financially due to Covid-19 Pandemic […]
The world over, people are presently wrestling with the unprecedented implications of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. It is a human crisis unlike any experienced earlier. By way of providing immediate relief during the pandemic, we – The World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust and The WZO Trust Funds – have played a reasonably proactive role by supporting from […]
In 1987, Dr. Cashmera P Bhaya conducted a sample (not census) socio-economic survey of poor Zoroastrians residing in the villages of South Gujarat. She identified 687 Zoroastrian families from 209 villages living in miserable conditions, many of them way below the poverty line, which in those days was pegged at an annual family income of […]
PT: Tell us how it all began. Dinshaw Tamboly: In June 2014, H’ble PM Narendra Modi, just a couple of weeks after assuming office as Prime Minister, invited Dasturji Khurshed, Homai Engineer, late Jehangir Cama and me – as we were connected with Foundation for Development of Udvada (FDU) – to meet him and discuss […]
WZO Trust is pleased to inform donors, well wishers and community members, an update of the various relief and rehabilitation measures undertaken by the World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust Funds, in joint initiative with the Kinder Trust, towards the devastating Kerala Floods which caused massive destruction to life and land. The first public appeal for funds […]
Under the Entrepreneurship scheme launched by World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce – India Region (WZCC-I) and the WZO Trust Funds (WZOTF), to support Zarathushti Entrepreneurs by funding selected projects in India on liberal terms, 3 entrepreneurs have been selected after a rigorous three-stage process and Rs. 25 lakhs disbursed as loans to each. The three […]
The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce – India (WZCCI) and WZO Trust Funds (WZOTF) have announced a joint plan to support and promote Parsi/Irani Zoroastrian entrepreneurs, professionals and start-ups by funding selected projects in India with interest-free loans. Only the principal amount would have to be returned, over a pre-determined period. WZCCI and WZOTF invite […]
During times of trials and tribulations in the past, our ancestors shielded and protected our sacred Shreeji Pak Iranshah by shifting it to different centres from time to time, which include: Sanjan (669 years), Bahrot Caves (12 years: 1393 – 1405 AC), Vansda Forest – 14 years: 1405 – 1418 AC), Navsari (313 years: 1419 […]
Survival Of Our Community Is Directly Linked To Our Mobeds It remains a fact that no community can survive without a strong religious foundation. At the same time no religion can survive without an enlightened clergy. The success and survival of our Parsi Zoroastrian community is undoubtedly directly linked to our religion and our Mobeds. […]
Promise Of Increasing Platform Height Comforts Community Over the past two weeks, our community has come together in support of Udvada’s Zoroastrian Museum manager, Aspi Sepoy, who met with a deadly accident at Udvada railway station on 15th September. As Aspi was about to board the Firozpur Janta Express that halted on platform number 3 […]