Investigating the Viewpoints of Parents, Wives and Children of Martyrs about the Method of Distributing and the Degree of Effectiveness of Cultural Services of martyr Foundation in Fars Province

The Islamic Foundation of Veterans and Martyrs is one of the Revolutionary and Original Institutes of Islamic Society that has performed invaluable activities during two decades by setting Imam Khomeini’s Motto that “ the families of martyrs are the eyes and the lights of this society”? and by attending the material and spiritual needs of these families as well as improving their cultural levels. Cultural services are summarized in three sections of education, training and counseling. This project aims at investigating the Viewpoints of Parents, Wives and Children of Martyrs about the Method of Distributing and the Degree of Effectiveness of Cultural Services of martyr Foundation in Fars Province.
The main goal of this research is to investigate the present situation in order to offer better services and to make some changes if required in order to make those who are benefited by these services more content.
The research methodology is of statistical and descriptive kind. The martyr families of Fars Province constitute the community of research and 1256 were chosen as samples and at random. The research community includes two questionnaires made by the researcher. The data collected were analyzed according to appropriate statistical methods such as Frequency, Percentage, T – Test, Variance analyzing, X 2 Test and Tokay Test and the results indicate that in Fars Province all in all wives, children and parents of the martyrs were satisfied with services such as: Attending and pursuing the requirements of the referents, educational contents, kind of major with regard to Shahed’s priorities and educational progress as well as supporting of the martyr students by the Martyr Foundation during studying period, tailor Education, Textile, Educating Qur’an, Educating Anthem, Family education, counseling services, social education and psychological education and accommodation facilities. But they were not satisfied with services such as computer education and typing education both with regard to content and teaching staff, as well as educational environment. General conclusion showed that wives were more content than the children and parents about the cultural services and the children were the least content. There was no difference between male and female martyr children. Some who had high academic degrees were to some extent content with these services. There was no difference between different cities based on their degree of satisfaction. Shiraz citizens were less content with educational and welfare services but they were more content with professional services. Mamasasni citizens were almost dissatisfied with all these services. More details will be investigated in chapters 4 and 5.