| The Collateral Repair Project in affiliation with International Humanities Center Sewing Machines for Refugees in Najaf |
This project will fund internally displaced women in Najaf, Iraq, to learn sewing and
embroidery skills. The women can use these skills to clothe their families and they can earn
a small living by selling clothing to shops.
Another benefit of this project is that it provides a means to break the tedium of life in
refugee camps for these women.
This course will run for 5 weeks - each week-long course will teach 10 different women these
skills. Over the 5 week course, 50 women will be trained.
The machines will be used for more courses after these initial courses.
embroidery skills. The women can use these skills to clothe their families and they can earn
a small living by selling clothing to shops.
Another benefit of this project is that it provides a means to break the tedium of life in
refugee camps for these women.
This course will run for 5 weeks - each week-long course will teach 10 different women these
skills. Over the 5 week course, 50 women will be trained.
The machines will be used for more courses after these initial courses.
More projects in Iraq:
Feeding the Hungry
Iraqi Kids Peace Project
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Iraqi Kids Peace Project
$1,500 will pay for:
- 5 sewing machines
- generator and fuel to operate the machines
- salary for a teacher (also a refugee) to teach 50
women - fabrics and embroidery threads
- bus transportation for the women to go to the course
Please help!
| The story of one of the women waiting for this course - Batool Qahir, Batool is a housewife, widowed now, who was married to Ahmed Abdul Hussien who worked as a farmer in Iraq. They have three children, one boy: Ali - 10 years old and his two sisters, Fatima - 6 years old, and Zainab - 2 years old. They were living at Al-dhilooeia locality in Salah Al-Dene province northern Baghdad. Batool's husband died in one of the most bloody explosions in Baghdad province. After the death of her husband Ahmed, her 10 year old son, Ali left his studies and started work to get money for his family. Unfortunately, Batool and her three children have been displaced from their own house because they are Shiites and they moved to live at a camp for displaced families in Al-Najaf province. Batool also told our Iraq projects developer, i during his interview with her at the camp where she and her children live now that she tried to get some help from many humanitarian organizations, but she didn't get any help. Also, she told him that, there is a number of displaced families who live at the same camp and suffer what Batool suffers. Batool needs a sewing machine to start her sewing project in order to improve her family’s life (translation by Manal) |
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