Without urgent investment in education, Iraq’s future generations risk being left behind The future of Iraq, its economic security and prosperity depends on increasing investment in education today. And while the price of investing in Iraq’s education sector is high, failing to do so will cost the nation far more in the future. “The Cost […]
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A 5K to Benefit Iraq’s Most Vulnerable Children
The Iraqi Children Foundation (ICF) will host its 5th Annual “In Their Shoes” 5K run/walk on May 20, 2017 at the US Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia. The 5K will benefit Iraq’s most vulnerable: orphans, street children, and kids displaced by ISIS. ISIS violence in Iraq has displaced more than 1 million children, […]
UNICEF Iraq Monthly Humanitarian Situation Report, Feb 2017
UNICEF Iraq Monthly Humanitarian Situation Report, February 2017: Highlights Military operations to re-take western parts of Mosul city started on 19 February 2017. The UN estimates that around 750,000 civilians are still residing in the western section of the city. Humanitarian actors are deeply concerned about the situation of civilians, including 412,000 children. Since 19 […]
Give Iraq’s Children the Childhoods they Deserve
From the AMAR Foundation: All too often, it is children who are the victims of ISIS violence. In Iraq, almost half of the country’s 3.3 million internally displaced persons are under the age of 18. And they have not just lost their homes: thousands have lost friends and relatives, and many have witnessed deeply traumatic […]
Tags: AMAR Foundation, AMAR International Charitable Foundation, Baroness Nicholson, caliphate, Children, Daesh, featured, humanitarian assistance, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, terrorism
AMAR provides vital Textbooks to Iraqi Children
The AMAR International Charitable Foundation has distributed more than 3,000 textbooks to school students in southern Iraq, equipping primary and secondary schools with vital educational resources. Thanks to some fantastic fund-raising support by staff at the Rumaila Operating Organisation (ROO), we were able to answer a request by the Directorate for Education to provide the […]
Tags: AMAR Foundation, AMAR International Charitable Foundation, Baroness Nicholson, Children, featured, humanitarian assistance, Rumaila, Rumaila Operating Organization (ROO), schools
National Immunization Campaigns Launched in Iraq
A national immunization days campaign has today commenced in Iraq and targets over 6 million children aged 0 to 5 years of age. Supported by the Ministry of Health, WHO and UNICEF, the door-to-door campaign is being conducted for 5 days and will include the newly liberated areas in Mosul where thousands of children have […]
Tags: Children, featured, Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Mosul, polio, UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund, vaccination, World Health Organization (WHO)
EU commits additional €7m for Children in Iraq
A new €7-million contribution from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) to support UNICEF’s work in Iraq brings the total amount of ECHO assistance committed to UNICEF Iraq in 2016 to €20 million. This additional support comes at a critical time as families continue to flee Mosul, humanitarian […]
Tags: Children, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), European Union (EU), featured, humanitarian assistance, UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund
Help Iraq’s Children Survive the Winter
In many countries, children dream of snow at Christmas. But in Northern Iraq, where temperatures plummet to well below zero, hundreds of thousands of displaced children wish only for warmth as they battle for survival. Please help Iraq’s children survive the winter. Just £25 ($32) could provide a family with warm winter blankets to protect […]
Tags: AMAR International Charitable Foundation, Baroness Nicholson, Children, featured, humanitarian assistance
Video: Newly-Opened IDP School brings Smiles in Kids
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Huge smiles lit the faces of the Iraqi children lining up outside the newly opened school in Jadaa displacement camp, for many hadn’t seen a classroom in two years. The government, the UN and […]
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Young Iraqi Doctors and Nurses mend Little Bodies
On Day 1, 93 children and family members arrived at the door of the “Peace Zone” clinic for medical care. After fleeing from ISIS to Tikrit, 123 miles south of Mosul, these families are very vulnerable and in need of so much, including basic health care. The project is the brainchild of the Iraq Health Access Organization (IHAO) founder […]
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Campaign to Immunize 5.8m Iraqi Children against Polio
Major campaign launched to immunize 5.8 million Iraqi children against polio Today, on World Polio Day the Ministry of Health with support from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a weeklong nationwide campaign to immunize Iraq’s children against polio. Under the slogan “two drops can change a life,” the five-day campaign aims to […]
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”Street Lawyers” – their Clients are Boys and Girls 6, 10, 14 ….
They Call Themselves ”Street Lawyers”, and their Clients are Boys and Girls 6, 10, 14 …. If you are desperately poor, 6 years old, and picked up by police in Baghdad for begging, who will come to your defense? We are not permitted to show their pictures and will use aliases but here is the story of two little brothers – […]