I’m in the Baharka refugee camp outside of Erbil, where the hope of Iraq’s future is being forged in a simple, unassuming school. There are 4,000 students here—elementary through high school—who meet four different times during the day in order to accommodate their...
The World Help team began our day delivering life-saving aid in the Baharka camp, home to 5,000 displaced Iraqis. Most of these families are from Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, which fell to ISIS last year. I couldn’t help but marvel that just months earlier,...
If you’re a parent, you know the helpless feeling when your child gets sick. You would do anything to protect them from pain—we all would. Fortunately for us in the West, our children have 24-hour access to the best doctors and medicine money can provide. We don’t...
Today, our team traveled to a community of 850 refugee families who once lived in Qaraqosh. Many of them are Christians, including Yazidis and several other minorities. But they all have one thing in common: ISIS gave them the ultimatum to convert, pay, or die....
Watch From the Field: Iraq | Hope for Refugee Children Through Education on Vimeo. I’m with the World Help team in Northern Iraq, and we’ve just spent the day with the future leaders of this nation—kindergarteners. This World Help sponsored school of more than 150...