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Muneer doing his homework

When fears turn into schoolbags of dreams and hopes

Written by Noora Jader, Livelihood Assistant In the midst of a constant struggle between the need to dismantle heavy engines and the desire to assemble...

Kawther and her children in the yard of their home

The scattered dream of childhood

She had a dream. Her dream was to become a doctor. But this dream scattered like sand in the wind when she was withdrawn from school in her second year of...

Shukria with her children

From the edge of the abyss

Written by Suzan Hussien Abd, Meal Assistant It wasn't easy for her to face it , but it is inevitable, it was difficult to be a woman and a man at the same...

Faisal holds a sample of mushrooms for the second batch of production. (© World Vision 2022 l photo by Muhammed Abd Salam)

One day you will thank yourself for never giving up

Witten by Muhammed Abd Salam, Livelihoods Assistant Everyone has a dream. Faisal’s life and dream was to have a Mushroom Greenhouse. Faisal is 46 years of...

Arjan happy with his cow

Hope is born from the womb of suffering

Written by Malik Anas, Livelihoods Assistant When problems abound and difficulties seem to hound someone, people need something to help them rise again...

Climate Change is undermining livelihoods and the possibility of recovery in Iraq

By Elise Nalbandian On May 18, 2022, WFP and UNHCR announced that 260,000 Syrian refugees in Iraq will lose access to basic food [1] without urgent funds...

Mural

Painting our vision for every child: life in all its fullness

By Elise Nalbandian (writing) with Shayan Nuradeen (inspiration and art) The World Vision Iraq Comms team invites the World Vision partnership to enjoy a...

Azia in her store with her children

Azia - the endeavours of a one resilient woman

As a child, the youngest in the family of fourteen, Azia lived in a typical old oriental style house with vast open spaces made of clay and plaster and...

Ismail in his land

Rebuilding from scratch

“Money and children are the adornments of the life of this world.” Ismail quotes the Quran. Ismail married at a young age, and over the years, he made a...

Montaha knitting In her home

Memories are bittersweet, but life continues

Rich childhood memories of her hometown of Bartella, 22 km away from Mosul, are always in her mind. Bartella is where she lived her whole life. Today, she...

Fatma in her store

Happiness finally comes

Fatma remembers the year she turned 13 – she had just passed her fifth-grade exams when her parents married her off. She had never seen her husband-to-be...

Dunya's glasses

Seeing the world differently

Dunya* (12) told her mother, “I thought the whole world looked like that”. She had never seen the world clearly, having been born with poor eyesight. Her...

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Children in West Mosul get back to School

Five years after the end of the fighting in Mosul, Iraq, the devastating effects of war are still visible and intensely felt. The conflict from 2014 to...

A courageous young woman

A Courageous Young Woman

Ruqaya*(23) is an Internally Displaced Person originally from Diyala in Iraq. She had seven siblings (three girls and four boys) and since 2014 they have...

World Vision Iraq Response Director Nicole Peter meeting a newly baptised Yazidi child in her purple dress and her special red and white checked head-scarf. Photo: Shwan Mohamed Amin

A lesson of unconditional love and faith, Interfaith dialogue at Lalish Temple in Iraq

by Julian Habib Hanna, Faith and Development Technical Advisor, WV Iraq, and Elise Nalbandian, Advocacy and Communications Manager, WV Iraq

Azzam

The Gone Childhood – Azzam’s silent will to succeed

Shy and quiet and with a vast capacity for internalising all hurts and sadness Azzam looks on with eyes that look years older than his twelve years. Words...

Nahla with her two daughter

In the middle of melancholy, laughter to lighten children’s hearts

Just one day before remembrance day of the conflict that started in Sinjar in Iraq, Nahla, in an all brown dress and beige veil, was sitting quietly in a...

Dilian in her home

Family gives me power

August 3, 2014 is stamped on the memory of Dilian (33) as the most difficult day in her life. This was the day when the conflict spilled into her hometown...

Narin and her children in Khanke Camp

Seven years on the Anniversary of the Yezidi Genocide

Narin (40) is a single mother of eight children - seven girls and one boy and a widow as her husband passed away in tragic car accident in 2013. She is...

Mona in contemplation

Stolen Innocence in West Mosul

Mona* burst into tears as she recounted the memory of her stolen innocence. “So they (her parents) told me that instead of getting back to school that I...

Ziney in her home at one of the reufgee camps in Erbil

The start of new beginnings

Only a few weeks away from her 20th birthday, and one day before the Islamic Eid al Fitr feast, Ziney was spending time with her family in her home in...

Tabarak with her two friends, Tiba and Malak. ©

Tabarak

Her name is Tabarak. In Arabic her name means magnified. She comes from a town in northeastern Iraq. When she was born eight years ago, everything looked...

Rafida in her home built in shop

Rising from the Ashes: The Empowered Women of Old Mosul

The conflict that devastated the city of Mosul left families devastated as well. Today, Rafida, 54, is living with her son in the heart of old Mosul, once...

Hiba receiving school materials from World Vision case worker, Maryam.

Hiba getting back to school

Hiba*,15, is spending two hours a day preparing for her exams as in the next few months she is going to have an external exam to pass the secondary school...