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[A Close Point of View] ISIS – genesis, atrocities, and the current situation
In Europe, we first heard about ISIS during a series of bloody attacks which were particularly intense in the period between 2015 and 2017. Those were not the first terrorist attacks in the so-called West, but their audacity and a high number of people sent shockwaves...
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Everyone deserves a place to call home (WATCH)
After taking control of Sinjar, terrorists started looting. They robbed shops and houses before blowing them up. By the end of 2019, we had built 65 houses for families that fled ISIS. It was the first phase of reinhabiting the entire region. Now we are trying to...
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We are starting another year of helping terrorism victims.
We have smoothly moved on to 2021 and already managed to help the first family. But I will begin with what we promised before the end of the last year, namely with good news from the building sites of new houses in Sinjar. New buildings were raised more than two...
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What did we manage to do in 2020? A short summary and plans for the future.
This year has been a real test for humanitarian organizations. Restrictions, movement bans, and many other inconveniences were a significant challenge for us as well. However, we managed to work continuously and bring help without larger interruptions. I wrote about...
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[A Close Point of View] How to help without harming?
The good can be found in almost each one of us, and sooner or later it somehow reveals itself. Only a very few individuals derive pleasure from seeing others’s suffering, and usually it’s a result of some kind of psychological disorder. Sometimes we are moved by the...
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Helping. It makes sense.
When helping people in a country such as Iraq, it needs to be taken into consideration that not everything will always go according to a plan. The worst thing is powerlessness. In some cases, we are simply unable to help. There are complicated and costly medical...
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Will the pandemic results bring another humanitarian crisis?
The situation in the world which we have been witnessing for several months is not conducive to humanitarian activities. Since March, many humanitarian organizations have been forced to stop their work in Iraq and Kurdistan.It was caused by the ‘lockdown’ which we...
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[A Close Point of View] What has happened to global terrorism?
Has global terrorism ceased to threaten us? For a while, we haven’t heard about tragic attacks like the ones that happened between 2014 and 2017 in Paris, Nice, and Manchester. What has happened to global terrorism?If we analyze the news from the last months, we will...
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Help during the time of the pandemic, part 2.
In March this year, a lockdown was imposed in Iraq which lasted until half of August. For a long time, many shops as well as roads between the provinces were closed. Humanitarian organizations halted their activities. Residents of camps for internally displaced people...
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Different? Or worse?
The Third World. That is where war never ends. That is how it is over there. I have heard this many times about the place where we work and the people whom we try to help. Have you ever thought how divided our planet is based on stereotypes that have nothing to do...
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[A Close Point of View] ISIS – genesis, atrocities, and the current situation
In Europe, we first heard about ISIS during a series of bloody attacks which were particularly intense in the period between 2015 and 2017. Those were not the first terrorist attacks in the so-called West, but their audacity and a high number of people sent shockwaves...
Everyone deserves a place to call home (WATCH)
After taking control of Sinjar, terrorists started looting. They robbed shops and houses before blowing them up. By the end of 2019, we had built 65 houses for families that fled ISIS. It was the first phase of reinhabiting the entire region. Now we are trying to...
We are starting another year of helping terrorism victims.
We have smoothly moved on to 2021 and already managed to help the first family. But I will begin with what we promised before the end of the last year, namely with good news from the building sites of new houses in Sinjar. New buildings were raised more than two...
What did we manage to do in 2020? A short summary and plans for the future.
This year has been a real test for humanitarian organizations. Restrictions, movement bans, and many other inconveniences were a significant challenge for us as well. However, we managed to work continuously and bring help without larger interruptions. I wrote about...
[A Close Point of View] How to help without harming?
The good can be found in almost each one of us, and sooner or later it somehow reveals itself. Only a very few individuals derive pleasure from seeing others’s suffering, and usually it’s a result of some kind of psychological disorder. Sometimes we are moved by the...
Helping. It makes sense.
When helping people in a country such as Iraq, it needs to be taken into consideration that not everything will always go according to a plan. The worst thing is powerlessness. In some cases, we are simply unable to help. There are complicated and costly medical...