Events & Personalities
Eighth building
The newly constructed WZO (World Zoroastrian Organisation) Trust Funds Bai Maneckbai P. B. Jeejeebhoy Building at Asparwad, Navsari, located behind the Bhagarsath Anjumanna Atash Behram, was inaugurated with a jashan on April 5, 2011.
WZO Trust Funds’ new building in Navsari; commerative plaques
Built on ancestral property of the Aspar family donated to the WZO Trust Funds by Zenobia and Kersi Aspar, residents of Tokyo, Japan, and with construction costs borne by the Bai Maneckbai P. B. Jeejeebhoy Deed of Settlement Fund this is the eighth such building in Navsari constructed by the WZO Trust Funds. The Jeejeebhoy trust funded the construction of six, while the other two buildings received donations from the Behramji Nowroji Gamadia Parsi Hunnar Shalla Trust and the Zoroastrian Charity Funds of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao. Flats in the buildings are given to Zoroastrians on leave and licence basis at Rs 300 per month with Rs 300 as service charges.
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