The Al-Khoei Foundation is an international Islamic organisation with General Consultative status at the Economic and Social Council at the UN, which was established in 1989 by the late Shia-Muslim spiritual leader Imam Sayyid Abulqasim Al-Khoei. This philanthropic foundation operates a number of pioneering educational, social and religious programmes and has offices in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Iraq and Iran. It implements educational programmes which encompasses religious plurality and community cohesion. The Foundation advocates interfaith and intrafaith relations and also works to promote the role of faith in protecting human values, social development, empowerment of women and countering intolerance and extremism.”