By Country Director | Iraq
IsraAID has been operating in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) since 2014 providing emergency, educational and psychosocial support to the displaced people forced to flee their homes when the Islamic State (ISIS) attacked their communities. This three-pronged approach meets the needs of multiple facets of displaced people including school aged children, ISIS returnees, families, and the elderly.
IsraAID is implementing Psychosocial Support (PSS) programs with Yazidi returnees fleeing Mosul, and STEM programs in IDPs camps and primary schools in Erbil. In addition, IsraAID has been providing relief items, including food and non-food items, responding to the emergent needs in the area.
IsraAID Iraq just started the second phase of our STEM education program: the full academic year of STEM eduaction in several schools in a few different camps. Each grade-level has their own curriculum, including four topics - engineering, math, technology and science.
The schools are open for internally displaced (IDPs) primary school students that came to live in the camps with their families after being dispalced from Mosul and Nineveh, 2014. IsraAID's eductional program is highly needed in the camps as there are few schools in the region and high costs for transportation to other schools and school equipment.
The program is dependent on its 40 volunteering team leaders and teachers from the camps. Together they are teaching over 800 children in a few different camps. The age of the children range from 7 to 13 and there is an equal range of girls and boys. The children are eager to learn and are happily taking what they learn in theory, through books and the teachers, to the labs - testing, thinking and trying the teories in practise. The children surprise the teachers every day with their abilities and with their excitment they start every project they are instroduced to.
IsraAID's staff and volunteers in Iraq believe that education and capacity building is a key aspect in the country to create peace and stability. We are grateful for your support to IsraAID's programs in Iraq - it helps these 800 children and 40 teachers to look forward and work for a better future. Thank you!
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