Church World Service
The international humanitarian agency Church World Service (CWS) is mounting a two-pronged effort, providing essential services for vulnerable children in orphanages and equipping Iraqi organizations to operate social, economic, and health service projects. As part of a program aimed at ultimately moving Iraqi children living in orphanages out of institutions and back into family settings, CWS and a partner agency in Iraq will provide food baskets and locally purchased school kits and hygiene kits to youngsters in 21 institutions. Donations to the U.S. appeal will also help Church World Service send three 40-foot containers of hygiene and school kits, blankets, and medicine boxes supplied by Interchurch Medical Assistance. A Church World Service local partner agency in Iraq will distribute CWS-provided emergency medical supplies to hospitals in conflict areas.

Generation Iraq
Generation Iraq is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by American Iraqi Tamara Quinn, a WAFDI board member. It seeks to improve the lives of individuals and communities in Iraq by rewarding young people for their efforts in helping others less fortunate. It endeavors to instill compassion and care in Iraq’s communities, building toward a common goal of peace, security, and prosperity. It particularly seeks to motivate young people and promote reconciliation within the various ethnic and religious communities of Iraq.

Heartland Alliance
Heartland Alliance supports NGOs that combat violence against women, including domestic violence and threats of honor killing. It works to eradicate gender-based violence by providing direct services to victims of violence, conducting community outreach and training, and researching issues involving violence against women in Iraq. The program focuses on social, medical, and legal services for women and girls in shelters and detention centers.

Heartland Alliance is also implementing a program designed to integrate mental health services, including torture treatment, into the primary health care system in torture-affected communities in Iraq. With Northwestern University’s Institute for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Heartland Alliance is developing a training curriculum on torture treatment for community mental health workers and physicians.

Islamic Relief
The work of Islamic Relief (IR) in Iraq began 10 years ago. IR was on the ground throughout the military incursions and is one of the few aid agencies that continued working during and after the 2003 war. A field office was opened in January 2003 in the capital, Baghdad. IR supports thousands of displaced people, including Syrian and Palestinian refugees living in Baghdad and Ramadi, with distributions of food and other aid. The Orphans Sponsorship programme has been running since 2004, providing children with health, educational, and psychological support. Seasonal Ramadan and Qurbani food distributions have helped thousands of families over the years. IR is also digging wells to provide sustainable water supplies.

KIVA
KIVA is an innovative microcredit network that makes it possible for individuals to make small loans directly to individuals in the developing world. KIVA has partnered with the IAAC (Iraqi Al Aman Center). Al-Aman Center/Kirkuk is a non-governmental organization registered with the ministry of civil society in the office of assisting non-governmental organizations. It is a nonprofit working independently of the government. The Iraqi Al-Aman center is funded by the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) through the IZDIHAR Project. By providing funding for microbusinesses, women, and jobless people, the Iraqi Al-Aman Center serves the people of Kirkuk and promotes social and economic development for the people of Iraq.

Life for Relief and Development
This organization was founded by concerned Iraqi Americans in 1992 after the first gulf war and has remained engaged through the current conflict. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with UN consultative status, and is registered with USAID. Life’s many projects in Iraq include the building and repair of water treatment plants, generators, kindergartens, and schools. They provide medical supplies to hospitals and wheelchairs to people who need them. They also have several projects related to women’s empowerment.

Network for Good Iraq Projects
Network for Good is a US umbrella organization that is directing contributions for relief to the Iraq Foundation and organizations like those above. The emergency relief and reconstruction aid delivered to Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April of 2003 has helped to rebuild the basic infrastructure and tend to some of the immediate needs of the citizens who desperately need aid in the form of food, clean water and medical attention. Network for Good invites donations to the various humanitarian organizations that are on the front lines of each new phase of the struggle in Iraq.

Refugees International
In response to the refugee crisis in Iraq, Refugees International will use donations to: 1) Alert the world to this growing crisis so it can no longer be ignored, 2) Undertake additional missions to Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Yemen and other countries to update our assessment of displacement from and in Iraq, and 3) Meet with officials in the Middle East, Europe and the U.S. to ensure support and protection for the Iraqi refugees. Refugees International is calling on the world community to develop a coherent regional approach to the influx of refugees.

Relief International
RI began operations in southern Iraq in April 2003, and within one year had built and repaired key infrastructure in the educational, agricultural, municipal, and water-supply sectors—areas that had been damaged during the war and from years of neglect. To build the capacity of civil society in Iraq, Relief Iraq was founded in 2005 as a local counterpart to RI. Over the course of five years, RI will turn over programming, fundraising, and accountability responsibilities to Relief Iraq, which will become a wholly independent local organization. Relief Iraq is addressing the needs of vulnerable people in Iraq in the areas of livelihoods restoration, returnee monitoring and protection, and the development of new grassroots institutions

UNICEF
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, was established in 1946 to help children in Europe after World War II. Now it works in 191 countries around the world, with 64% of its support coming from governments and 36% from individuals through the national committees. Iraq’s Ministry of Health is heading up the measles, mumps, and rubella campaign with support from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the European Commission. Other current campaigns target polio and cholera among Iraqi children.

WAFDI
The Women's Alliance for a Democratic Iraq (WAFDI) is an international nonpartisan and not-for-profit women's rights organization founded in 2003. WAFDI members are all volunteers who are dedicated to a free and democratic Iraq, with full individual rights for women as equal partners with men in all aspects of human endeavor. Currently WAFDI does not have any paid staff or any overhead expenses. All membership fees, donations, and small grants go directly to fund their projects in Iraq, which empower women through mutual support and e-mentoring.

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