KHUJAND, May 18, 2009, Asia-Plus — Simultaneous wedding ceremony for 50 couples was arranged by the Tajik office of Iran’s Imam Khomeini Relief Committee, Imdod, in the Sughd province on May 17.
The wedding ceremony for 50 newly-married couples and their relatives was held at the Drama Theatre named after Kamol Khujandi in Khujand.
The couples are young people from vulnerable families. First of all, young people from single-parent families and families having many children may count on such help.
Besides assistance in arranging wedding ceremonies, the Imdod Committee also provided each of the couples with fridges, sowing and washing machines, as well as kitchen supplies for a total amount of more than 1,500 U.S. dollars.
Representatives of the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe as well as representatives of visiting Iranian delegation attended the weddings to congratulate the newly-married couples.
The Imdod Committee arranges such wedding ceremonies in other regions of Tajikistan as well.
