Regarding the high growth of the aged population in our country it is predicted that Iran population reach to 90 million at the end of 1410 and 10-15% of them (13 million) will be the aged. Therefore, we require more centers for them in future. If philanthropists help the board of trustees, it decides to build a center with the capacity of 500 people to provide services for a greater population of the aged.
Moreover, we decide to be at some of the aged’ service at their home, or bring them to the center every day and come back them home after therapeutic and counseling stages. It will not be attainable except with your magnanimity.
Certainly, it is uncomfortable to see a helpless aged on streets in cold winter or hot summer. He can not work or even walk. Sometimes he is unable to set aside a fly sitting on his face. High thirstiness has cracked his lips and hungriness has made him unconscious. Do you, as a philanthropist, believe that building a sanatorium is less important than a school, or mosque?
Be sure that if you visit this sanatorium, or “temple” as we call it, you will find the vale of providing services for these suffered people.
We ask you to visit this center just one time if possible. Be sure that you will see your aged years for a moment. You will find that the glorious and joyful times of youth will come to end and passage of time changes a young to an aged who even can not afford to lead a spoon toward his mouth or control his urine. He is like a child who needs care and attention.
It is our duty to fill the empty place of his children for him and help him. We must do our best to build a safe and suitable place for him and be sure that God’s reward building the aged sanatorium is not less than building a school or a mosque. So, let’s help us in this valuable work.