A new intervention in Iraq is underway to accompany the return to areas liberated from Daesh of communities that had fled in 2014, continuing our efforts for those still displaced.
Accompanying the communities of Bashiqa, Qaraqosh and Bertella on their long and difficult journey home after the liberation of these areas from the presence of Daesh, which had occupied them during its advance into the Nineveh Plain in the summer of 2014.
This is the objective of 'Ma'an Na'ud' (Let's come back together), a new programme we have just launched in Iraq thanks to the support of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), and which will see us engaged for the next 10 months.
The returning displaced Iraqi communities need psycho-social support and reproductive health services in a context where reconstruction - human and material - has just begun. Services that we aim to provide to over 3,000 women and adolescents throughout the Nineveh Governorate.
At the same time, psycho-social support techniques will be strengthened in schools and camps that still receive displaced Iraqis - such as the one in Ashti, where we have been working for years - through specific training for teachers, psychologists and school assistants.
The aim of the project is to reach 100 teachers, 12 psychologists and operators, to involve 2,300 people, including 700 students, in the work of resilience groups.
