The Role of Relief Committee of Imam Komeini in Antipoverty of Iran VillagesCase: Villages of Kandovan District of Miyaneh Township

Poverty has been one of the challenges of the nations and governments in the past and present time. And solutions have been proposed for its reduction in each period. One of the these strategies is the establishment of foundations which eradicate the poverty as governmental or  non- governmental entities, (NGO),and its main important type is Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Iran. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of Relief committee in reducing the poverty  of clients covered in kandovan District, Miyaneh, in three dimensions of economical, social and physical status and by using 9 factors of education, partnership, spending leisure time, situation of consuming durable goods, consumption pattern of food, insurance, employment and income, physical condition and house of clients in 68 villages of Kandovan in the form of 3 districts and 160 households.
The method used in this research is descriptive - analytical one and by using library resources. Also for the analysis  and study of factors, nonparametric wilcoxon statistical test and McNemar two values and SPSS software were used. and the research results indicate that  the averages,  positive and negative rankings has had an increasing trend  in comparing with its situation before Relief Committee coverage and at a significance level (SIG) on most components and related statements that are equal or smaller than α<./.5.
The results show that the Relief committee in all economical, social and physical aspects of development has lead to significant changes for the clients under coverage.