Rostam Giv

Rostam Giv or Arbab Rostam Giv (  alternative spellings: Rustam Guiv) (1880, Yazd, Iran  - October 7 1980, Whittier, California),  was the founder of Giv charity foundation. He was the third representative of Iranian Zoroastrians in the Iranian parliament. He was also a senator of the Iranian Senate.

 Life 
Giv was born in 1888 in Yazd. His mother's name was Kharman. His father's name was Shahpour.

Giv completed his elementary education at Kay Khosravi school. He learned English language in Yazd. He was elected as the Zoroastrians' Representative in the Iranian National Assembly after Keikhosrow Shahrokh died in 1939.
He founded "Giv's Charity foundation" in 1958 for supporting needy people. He was also selected as a senator in the Iranian Senate in 1963 because of his charity works for the Iranian people.

 Rostam Bagh 
Rostam Bagh, is a big garden in Tehran Pars Street in Tehran.  Arbab Rostam was built in 1957 for Living Zoroastrian's Needy Family. This garden covers about , including residential buildings, a meeting hall, two schools, a sports ground, a library and a fire temple.Arbab Rostam, Rostam bagh garden

Building water reservoir 
Making a water reservoir in Yazd, which has 4000 cubic meter capacity and provides clean and safe water for people is another one of Giv's charity works.

 Building schools 
Giv has built schools for Iranian children. He built Giv's elementary school, Ostad Khdobabakhsh elementary school and Ostad pour-Davood elementary school for boys and girls in Tehran. He donated  of land to Iran's Ministry of Education in Damavand County.

 Endowments outside Iran 
A few months before the Iranian revolution, Rostam and his wife immigrated to the United States and he founded his charity foundations. They donated 4 million dollars for building Zoroastrian charities in all of the world.

They built Charity Buildings for Zoroastrians in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver and Sydney.Giv, Rostam, encyclopedia Iranica

 Gallery 

 Related pages 
 Keikhosrow Shahrokh

 References 

 Other websites 
 Darbe Mehr Zoroastrian Temple In NY
 The making of Chicago's Darbe Mehr 

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