This hospital has managed to provide comprehensive coverage to close to 18,000 cancer-stricken children of every nationality, religion, and ethnicity and their respective families, all funded exclusively by generous contributions of individual benefactors, corporate sponsors and ISCC a sister organization. In the past two decades, the organization has built a specialized pediatric cancer hospital & research center called MAHAK. The 'love of humanity' is their motivation and it is incorporated in MAHAK's slogan of 'Help us and let us help you'. In the past two decades, the organization has attracted increasing public support and fulfilled a great part of its mission which is to provide comprehensive support for children with cancer -thus reducing related child mortality rates - and create an appropriate environment that leads to empowerment for the families who have children with cancer. The Society to Support Children Suffering from Cancer also known as MAHAK was established in 1991 as a non-governmental and non-profit organization. Needless to say, this name has global recognition today and has partners similar to ISCC throughout the world. As of 2013, MAHAK has provided comprehensive coverage and treatment to close to 18,000 children with cancer and their families through its ten divisions, two residential centers, over ten fundraising offices and booths, over 550 employees, thousands of volunteers, and over 80,000 members. The hospital was officially opened in 2007 and today it is the single largest and best equipped pediatric cancer hospital in Iran and the Middle East offering all medical services, housing a complimentary residential center for parents, and contains all the offices of MAHAK Charity-Care organization. Through family he had become acquainted with the organization and within a short period gave his approval and financial backing. Karbassi-zadeh who wanted to make his wife’s death-bed wish come true appeared.
Once sufficient volunteer support and financial means had gathered, the Board of Trustees decided to purchase a land and construct a hospital in Darabad in northern foothills of Tehran. This was a big step toward the main goal. The children and their families were noticed, and special attention was given to them. Ghods witnessed other associations in of support children with cancer forming thus signaling the gradual acceptance of cancer as a disease by the society-at-large. Seven to eight years after registering MAHAK as a charity Mrs. In 1991, she formally registered MAHAK as a charity to support children with cancer. She was constantly thinking of what can be done? Eventually once her daughter went into recovery, she decided to place her focus on helping cancer-stricken children directly and parents indirectly.
She became intensely preoccupied with the idea of offering a little help to the children and their families. In fact, it may take years of overwhelming pressures and struggles. Sleeping in hospital yards or in street corners, many had realized that cancer is a disease that may require more than a single treatment.
Ghods saw fathers and mothers traveling from far and often disadvantaged regions struggling with financial difficulties of paying for expensive treatment of their child and a place to stay in Tehran for the duration. While referring to clinics and hospitals, Mrs. Not having enough information about cancer and the side effects of the drugs while witnessing her daughter's suffering, life had become barely tolerable for Mrs. The required medication was scarce and very expensive. Saideh Ghods was faced with many challenges during Kiana’s treatment. After much trepidation, much research, and many consultations with doctors and friends, she realized that cancer like many other diseases is curable and has its own phases of treatment. Saideh Ghods went into a denial state, not accepting the facts. Like any mother hearing this, her mother Mrs.
On a cold winter day in 1989, a two-year old girl named Kiana was diagnosed with an illness that would shake up any mother.
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