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 letters into words.
Stories
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...
The scattered dream of childhood
She had a dream. Her dream was to become a doctor. But this dream scattered like sand...
From the edge of the abyss
Written by Suzan Hussien Abd, Meal Assistant It wasn't easy for her to face it, but it...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rebuilding from scratch
“Money and children are the adornments of the life of this world.” Ismail quotes the Quran. Ismail...
Memories are bittersweet, but life continues
Rich childhood memories of her hometown of Bartella, 22 km away from Mosul, are always in her mind...
Happiness finally comes
Fatma remembers the year she turned 13 – she had just passed her fifth-grade exams when her...
Seeing the world differently
Dunya* (12) told her mother, “I thought the whole world looked like that”. She had never seen...
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...
A Courageous Young Woman
Ruqaya*(23) is an Internally Displaced Person originally from Diyala in Iraq. She had seven siblings (three girls...
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...
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...
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...
Family gives me power
August 3, 2014 is stamped on the memory of Dilian (33) as the most difficult day in...
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...
Stolen Innocence in West Mosul
Mona* burst into tears as she recounted the memory of her stolen innocence. “So they (her parents)...
The start of new beginnings
Only a few weeks away from her 20th birthday, and one day before the Islamic Eid al...
Tabarak
Her name is Tabarak. In Arabic her name means magnified. She comes from a town in northeastern Iraq...
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...
Hiba getting back to school
Hiba*,15, is spending two hours a day preparing for her exams as in the next few months...
Every one of us is a sun
Rita is a 30-year-old girl from a Christian minority of Kirkuk. She is the eldest of her two...