Mahmud Tarzi - Mahmud Tarzi Cultural Foundation

Mahmud Tarzi Cultural Foundation

On September 1, 2005, the Mahmud Tarzi Cultural Foundation was established in Kabul, Afghanistan with its headoffice in Mahmud Tarzi High School. The foundation is serving, according to NGO rules as a whole, briefly as, increasing the life quality of children at the educational level, helping their education, building schools, training & health centers, running these facilities and to complete the mentioned services written in the Deed of Foundation by creating financial aid for Afghan students.

A major project that the cultural foundation is starting in the Spring of 2007 is the Mahmud Tarzi Compound in Afghanistan. This project contains a library and a museum for Mahmud Tarzi’s works, a street children care center (for the remembrance of Asma Rasmia who was the wife of Mahmud Tarzi), and a women's care center (for the remembrance of Melika Soraya, daughter of Mahmud Tarzi and Queen of Afghanistan).

In order to get necessary finance for the foundation, a business center and a hotel will be built together with the compound. With any profit, the foundation will organize scholarship programmes, publishes old and new works of Sardar Mahmud Tarzi, and make contributions to the young authors and litterateurs to whom work for Mahmud Tarzi's ideas.