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[A Close Point of View] The Yazidis. An ethnic minority or a nation?
Our activities are directed mainly at the Yazidis. It is the community against which ISIS carried out a genocide in August 2014. I would like to say a little bit more about them. Who are the Yazidis? What does their secretive religion hide and why have they become the...

A girl with Kalashnikov
A picture of a young girl walking down the road in the mountains with Kalashnikov on her back went viral. It was taken in August 2014. At the time, terrorists from the so-called Islamic State were carrying out a genocide against the Yazidis in Sinjar. They murdered...

A country of contrasts
Associated mainly with wars, terrorism and the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussain, Iraq has got a label of one of the most unstable countries in the world. The era of chaos has lasted for almost two decades there, but before it had not been much calmer either. In the...

Iraq. Our Mission
The Eaglewatch was created in 2016. What were the beginnings of our activities? Whom and how do we help? Before the foundation’s establishment, its founder Bartek Rutkowski was working as the chief training at the Diving and Deep Diving Training Center of the Polish...

FROM THE WATER TO THE SAND #17 – These people are very tough
In this episode Bartosz Rutkowski talks about his latest trip to Iraq. You will find out, among others, about the project of board games which Bartosz brought for children from our befriended educational centers. You will hear about requests from local communities as...
![[A close point of view] Place of birth: A camp for internally displaced persons](https://www.orlastraz.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/A-close-point-of-view_birthplace_camp-1080x675.jpg)
[A close point of view] Place of birth: A camp for internally displaced persons
I would like to devote this article to the issue which is rarely touched upon, which at the same time is a serious problem affecting thousands of children living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Recently I watched a fragment of a reportage in which a...
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![[A Close Point of View] The Yazidis. An ethnic minority or a nation?](https://www.orlastraz.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Oboz-dla-przesiedlencow-w-Khanke-1080x675.jpg)
[A Close Point of View] The Yazidis. An ethnic minority or a nation?
Our activities are directed mainly at the Yazidis. It is the community against which ISIS carried out a genocide in August 2014. I would like to say a little bit more about them. Who are the Yazidis? What does their secretive religion hide and why have they become the...

A girl with Kalashnikov
A picture of a young girl walking down the road in the mountains with Kalashnikov on her back went viral. It was taken in August 2014. At the time, terrorists from the so-called Islamic State were carrying out a genocide against the Yazidis in Sinjar. They murdered...

A country of contrasts
Associated mainly with wars, terrorism and the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussain, Iraq has got a label of one of the most unstable countries in the world. The era of chaos has lasted for almost two decades there, but before it had not been much calmer either. In the...

Iraq. Our Mission
The Eaglewatch was created in 2016. What were the beginnings of our activities? Whom and how do we help? Before the foundation’s establishment, its founder Bartek Rutkowski was working as the chief training at the Diving and Deep Diving Training Center of the Polish...

FROM THE WATER TO THE SAND #17 – These people are very tough
In this episode Bartosz Rutkowski talks about his latest trip to Iraq. You will find out, among others, about the project of board games which Bartosz brought for children from our befriended educational centers. You will hear about requests from local communities as...
![[A close point of view] Place of birth: A camp for internally displaced persons](https://www.orlastraz.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/A-close-point-of-view_birthplace_camp-1080x675.jpg)
[A close point of view] Place of birth: A camp for internally displaced persons
I would like to devote this article to the issue which is rarely touched upon, which at the same time is a serious problem affecting thousands of children living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Recently I watched a fragment of a reportage in which a...