From the Field | Forging the Future of Iraq in the Classroom
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...From the Field | Winter Brings Added Anxiety in Iraq
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,...From the Field | A Light in the Darkness
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....From the Field | Solutions for a Lost Generation
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...
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