The Orphan Trust

Was established by three philanthropist brothers, Aquil, Sibtein and Arif Asaria.

When our father passed away early in 2018, we started The Orphan Trust in both his and our late mother’s memory. The charity feeds needy children who, like us, have lost their parents. Unlike them, we are able to share the fruits of our good fortune in life for the sake of humanity. We are passionate about this work to serve the underprivileged.

Read here about the Asaria Family Foundation, working to eradicate poverty through education.

Our team

Our team of Orange Caps on the ground in Kerbala is led by social worker Gazzwan Hashm Akiers, our paid employee. We have known Ghazwan for ten years and his community service is exceptional. He works alongside four volunteers who have been inspired by the Trust to go out and make a difference. We provide them with transportation and other assistance as and when needed. They are all a huge asset to The Orphan Trust.

Our Trustee Tufeyl Akber lives in Kerbala and helps to oversee all administration matters, as well as assisting in the procurement of the rations needed on a weekly basis.

Trustees

Aquil Asaria
Aquil Asaria CEO of Grupo Alfa Corporation
Aquil Asaria is co-Founder and acting CEO of Grupo Alfa Corporation, and also a major shareholder in the Club Sport Herediano football team, ranked number 3 in North America.
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Sibtein Asaria
Sibtein Asariaco-Founder of Grupo Alfa Corporation
Sibtein Asaria is co-Founder of Grupo Alfa Corporation, a leading business conglomerate based in the Republic of Costa Rica and with interests on three more continents.
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Arif Asaria
Arif Asaria
Arif Asaria has combined a highly successful business career with a lifetime of volunteering. His business interests have stretched across Canada, the United States and Central America…
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Faris Alibhai
Faris Alibhai
Calbe Ali Najarali
Calbe Ali Najarali
Mazahir Najarali
Mazahir Najarali
Anis Rawji
Anis Rawji
Tufeyl Akber
Tufeyl Akber




Project Team

Ghazwan Hashm Akiers
Ghazwan Hashm AkiersProject Coordinator - Iraq Chapter
Huda MOhammed Saleh
Huda MOhammed Saleh
Jafar Dia Karim
Jafar Dia Karim
Karrar Hassan Ali
Karrar Hassan Ali
Sajad Dia Karim
Sajad Dia Karim

Looking ahead

Our goal is to join with like-minded people to expand The Orphan Trust to other cities in Iraq, then to war-torn countries such as Syria, Yemen and the Bangladesh border with Myanmar, as well as Pakistan, India, Tanzania and Kenya. In all these nations there is a crying need to provide this humanitarian aid to orphans.

We are working on devising a sustainable model of supplying food systematically to answer this demand.