Bring Hope Humanitarian Foundation Weekly Update, September 26, 2018

Party for 120 children

Bring Hope, alongside with Gsio organization prepared a party for 120 children under the title “Peaceful Coexistence”. The children that participated were from many regions and multi religious (yaziden, Christian, Muslim), some of them from inside the camps and others from Ankawa (a district for Christian people).

Bring Hope supplied presents, clothes and toys for the children. They were given these after the party and they were very happy with what they received!

Distribution of clothing

Bring Hope started distributing clothing for vulnerable people in Tozawa, Erbil, Kurdistan by cooperating with TDH organization. This bazaar will be open for 3 days from 9am-4pm.

There are many students from different schools who are happy to start choosing their school uniform. Names of beneficiary schools are Am Alheathm, Bland, Ainda, Awrang and Nask. These schools are involved with local people, refugees & internally displaced people.

Story of Sarwan Sarti

11-year-old Sarwan Sarti, an internally displaced child from Makhmur in Iraq smiles for the camera, unaware of hardships his mother has endured to give him a chance to be treated well.

He is brave even though he deaf. Hopefully will have a better life here because of the efforts of his mother to give him the best chance in life. Today he was smiling when he received his school clothes.

Healthcare project

On the 12th September, Grace (a nurse from the UK) started a healthcare project in Debaga camp, to teach the women there about healthcare. There were 5 lectures, each about 1 hour long. Approximately 40 women came, most of them IDP’s from Mosul.

The lessons were:
1. Breastfeeding technique
2. Safe weaning
3. When to take your baby to the hospital
4. First aid training
5. First aid training (part 2)

A textbook was also prepared with health advice, so that in the future they can refer to this for advice. It was written in English by Grace and will be translated to Arabic. This way the women can keep learning. Once the lectures had finished Bring Hope distributing hygiene packages.

Distribution of medicine

Bring Hope provided 300 boxes of different kinds of medicine with a value of 304,906$ for General Directorate Health of Koya, which is located in a very remote area. BHHF was informed they are not getting any support from anyone. They asked BHHF for support, in order to provide treatment for the patients they are receiving.

Bring Hope makes a great effort to ensure health organizations have enough medicines to keep people healthy.

A lecture about basic hygiene and healthy eating

On 20th of September BHHF went to Kawrgosk camp and taught a group of approximately 30 school children about hand hygiene, brushing their teeth and how to have a healthy, balanced diet. A small quiz was held at the end and all the children did very well. BHHF gave out hygiene packs with shampoo, shower gel, toothbrushes and toothpaste so participants would have everything they needed to take care of themselves at home.

The children were very pleased that they did well on the quiz and were happy to receive the gifts.