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Clinics provided medical care in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz, with limited medical services also available in the smaller towns of Hamadan, Kerman, and Yazd. A feeding program provided a hot lunch on every school day for almost 4,000 children in 12 schools in Tehran and the provinces. A social welfare office in Tehran cared for around 1,200 people and direct cash relief as well as winter and Passover relief was granted to most of its clients. Nearly 200 elderly people were cared for in meals-on-wheels programs which operated in Tehran and also in the provinces.

Some 400 preschool age children attended day care centers in Tehran, Shiraz, and Isfahan. JDC funding enables 19,000 students to receive both secular and vocational education and instruction in Hebrew and in Judaism in the schools of the Ozar Hatorah, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, and ORT. JDC operations end in 1979 with the Iranian Revolution and the overthrow of the Shah.