Can you imagine losing everything? Without time to think, you must abandon all earthly items you hold dear—your home, possessions, mementos, and clothing. You must give up your job, daily routine, and hobbies. Even more devastating is the fact that you may never see...
The humanitarian situation here in Iraq is incomprehensible. I recently returned from a week-long trip to Iraq where I saw the physical and emotional carnage of ISIS for myself. Children wander aimlessly in the refugee camps, having no access to schooling. Families...
I’ve spent this past week in the broken nation of Iraq, where World Help teams are working around the clock to reach children, persecuted Christians, Yazidis, and so many others in dire need of care and support. The humanitarian crisis in Iraq is a crushing blow to...
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,...