A new intervention in Iraq dedicated to vocational training of young refugees and displaced persons, education and dialogue is launched.
Promoting vocational training, job placement, social cohesion and confidence building between the Syrian refugee, displaced Iraqi and host Kurdish communities in Iraq, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, by supporting cultural identities, dialogue and inter-group relations.
This is the objective of 'Yalla Shebab', a new project supported by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), which will see us engaged for the next 12 months in the construction of a vocational training centre and a new youth centre, which will be added to the other centres created in recent years in Iraqi Kurdistan.
We will do this together with our local partners in Al Mesalla and the community of Deir Mar Musa, with whom we have been working for years in Iraq, with the aim of involving at least 250 young people aged between 18 and 30.
For these young girls, refugees from Syria or displaced from other parts of Iraq, vocational, language and computer courses will be organised to help them regain their economic independence, including through internships in local companies.
At the same time, we will organise the same activities in the new Youth Centre as in the other Centres we have set up in Iraq, with a focus on mediation, reconciliation and peacebuilding.
The activities will be managed locally by the Deir Mar Musa and Al Mesalla Community, with our support.
