Our Stories

Remembering the Genocide

As Yezidi Genocide Remembrance day approaches, our dear staff share their stories, reminding us that for the sake of all, we must not look t

Realizing Eden: The Garden Project

Closing the border due to the pandemic worsened the hunger and fear of starvation in our already struggling refugee camp. One sustainable...

Sewing Hope: From Fields to Fashion

The recently opened Hope Factory provides the brave women of the Shariya refugee camp with an alternative profession.

A Back Door of Escape

Recently, I have looked back and pondered much about the day that it all began. Where the course of life thrust me onto a journey into a...

Fire Extinguisher

Here in our Northern Iraq base, 20,000 Yezidis in our camp alone, (380,000 in the province of Duhok) are heading into their sixth winter...

THE LONG AUGUST

As seen in our Newsletter September arrived. Facebook tells me what a wonderful summer it was. Adventures, food, travel, beach, ocean,...

Hopefully, Yours

The moment that she walked though our blue gate she tumbled into my arms and we just stood there. Hugging. A long hug with no need for...

The Roof

This morning I began to cry. And with tears tumbling down my face I began to sing. At that point of wounding, there right there where it...

The Secret Garden - Photo update

Our Secret Garden Project continues showing signs of growth and with it, kindness. We will continue on. #Gallery #English

Dough

" There's a point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit...

Happy New Year from Kurdistan

You remember the scene from the film Narnia, where Aslan arrives to confront the Witch, and slowly the ice begins to melt, and winter...

Wow! What a Ride!

" Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid...