Narges Kalbasi Ashtari ( fa, نرگس کلباسی اشتری, born 21 March 1988,
Esfahan), founder of the
Prishan Foundation, is a British citizen, originally from
Iran.
Ashtari grew up and went to school in
Exeter
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,
Devon. In 2010, she set up the
Prishan Foundation, named after a blind Sri Lankan boy that Ashtari met,
with the aim of 'improving the lives of orphans and abandoned children around the world'. The foundation has built an orphanage for girls in the
Rayagada district of
Odisha and a home for blind children in Mukundapur in India.
References
British people of Iranian descent
English philanthropists
Iranian philanthropists
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