Nova Scotia high school student helps raise awareness for Iran
Global News
Kamyar Kokabifar, a Grade 10 student at Sackville High School, is helping to raise awareness of tragedies and protests happening in his home country of Iran.
After realizing many people his age were unaware of the ongoing tragedies and protests that are happening in his home country of Iran, Kamyar Kokabifar wanted to help raise awareness.
“I would tell them, and they would be shocked,” said Kokabifar, a Grade 10 student at Sackville High School.
“I’m from Iran. My family is from Iran, and I saw my mom worried. She was crying because my family is over there, and I was like, I need to do something.”
Iran has been engaged in a brutal crackdown on protesters amid nationwide protests. The demonstrations first erupted over the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police.
She was detained for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Kokabifar says he approached one of his teachers to help him come up with an idea to engage students and then pitched the idea to his class.
That idea was “a vow of social silence,” where participants opt not to speak socially in classrooms, the hallways or during their lunch hour.
Teacher Melissa Doherty says the students were engaged by Kokabifar’s plan and wanted to help.
