The goals of Shahkooh Women's Organization are as follows:

To teach and educate women of the village of Shahkooh through the Internet.

To assist women in finding jobs. To educate women about their rights. To provide families with information regarding health and education for childeren.

Arranging monthly educational lectures for women.

Publishing a monthly newsletter regarding women's issues.

Providing interactive online medical advice for women and children through resident specialist physicians.

Organizing periodic sports and entertainment events for women of Shahkooh.

Will be announced soon.

Computer eduation committee.

Health education committee.

Home economics committee.

Cultural and entertainment committee.

Providing education and counseling regarding women's issues such as:

Marriage and divorce.

Inheritance Laws.

Child rearing and health.

Coping with teenage and adolecent issues.

Shahkooh’s successful women:

Zahra Abbasi

Kolsoom Abbasi

Fatemeh Abbasi

Marriage and engagement announcement

• Mr. Saeed Abbasi and Ms. Zohere Abbasi
• Mr. Hassan Naghavi and Ms. Mahbobeh Jalali

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• خبر پيوستن شاهكوه به اينترنت جهانى شد

  خبرگزارى فرانس پرس، خبر پيوستن نخستين روستاى ايران به شبكه اينترنت را به تمام جهان مخابره كرد. اين خبرگزارى با انعكاس خبر مذكور نوشت: علت انتخاب روستاى شاهكوه براى اتصال به شبكه اينترنت، وجود يك مجتمع دانشگاهى در آن منطقه است. خبرگزارى فرانس پرس همچنين اضافه كرده است: تا يك سال قبل دسترسى به اينترنت در ايران فقط محدود به مراكز دانشگاهى و تعداد محدودى از نخبگان جامعه بود اما اخيرا تعداد كافى نت‏ها در پايتخت ايران افزايش يافته است. در اين خبر آمده است: مقامات عالى رتبه وزارت پست و تلگراف و تلفن ايران اعلان كرده‏اند كه براى دسترسى به اينترنت هيچ محدوديتى براى افراد وجود ندارد. گفتنى است‏خبر مذكور بر روى سايت آژانس‏هاى خبرى CNET Nando Media به نقل از آژانس فرانس پرس و همچنين بسيارى از شبكه‏هاى خبرى كه مسايل مربوط به اينترنت را پوشش مى‏دهند، قرار گرفت

  Iranian Village More Wired Than American Inner Cities?

  
  Iranian Village Gets Wired for the Web
  "Welcome to the mountain village that lacks an elementary school, possesses just one central outhouse -- but has gone global. No other Iranian village has progressed as far as Shahkooh, 240 miles northeast of Tehran, in tapping the Internet's potential to widen its horizons. Villagers credit a native son. Ali Akbar Jalali, who left to study in the provincial capital and went on to earn an electrical engineering degree in the United States, raised the idea during a 1999 visit. The first computer was purchased with money raised by villagers. A government grant paid for a second and several more came courtesy of a charity formed by Iranians in London. Villagers who know something about computers volunteer as teachers in the computer center set up in Shahkooh's mosque. Classes are free. The village even has its own Farsi-language Web site, Shahkooh.com. The goal is to teach computer skills to anyone interested among its 6,000 residents -- from chador-clad girls to sunburned farmers.... Even in cities, a minority of Iranians are wired. Only 2 million out of Iran's 70 million people -- about 3 percent -- have Internet access.... Nearly half Iran's population is under age 25 and it's eager to get online.
  After the 1997 election of reformist President Mohammad Khatami, Internet cafes have sprouted in Iranian cities and Internet providers offer unrestricted access -- even to adult and anti-government sites.... In fact, Iran's clerics have pushed for restrictions on access. Last year, the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council, a conservative-dominated body, ordered all private Internet access companies under state control. The order was never implemented but parliament, according to lawmaker Kazem Jalali, is considering legislation that would require Internet providers to block access to adult sites and others. Hard-liners are also becoming increasingly concerned about Iranians' access to information, fearing it is stirring pro-reform sentiment. In Shahkooh, the Web is not controversial.
  It is seen as an essential tool to promote knowledge and prepare for jobs in a country choking from unemployment, which some analysts place at more than 30 percent. Since Shahkooh.com was launched, more than two dozen villagers have become entrepreneurs, moving to the provincial capital of Gorgan to sell computer spare parts and offer computer services.... ...Ali Akbar, is a 60-year-old illiterate farmer who is learning to read so he can Net surf, already knows how to download a file." [CNN]

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Annual gathering of Shahkooh's Society of Students and Graduates (S3G) at Shahkooh Mosque: From 10 to 11 Mordad 1381 (August 1-2, 2002).

Tog Wars event at Karkhaneh Square: 11 Mordad 1381 (August 2, 2002).

Hiking Event: Kahkeshan Mountain: 11 Mordad 1381 (August 1-2, 2002).

Dr. Ali A. Jalali Website

Shahkooh Website

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Executive Committee:

Fatemeh Abbasi, President, fa_abbbasi@yahoo.com Committee Memmbers:

Zahra Abbasi, Vice President,

Kolsoom Abbasi, Treasurer,

Farzaneh Hassani, M.D., Physician, fhassanimd@hotmail.com

Aazam Abbasi, Public Relation,