Updates from the field
Project Nazarene
Assisting the Displaced
January 05, 2015
The Children Were Clearly Hungry
Kurdistan, December 2014 - Shai Fund sent a team of aid workers and medical doctors into northern Iraq to assist the displaced persons that have fled ISIS. Working mostly in villages and camps with the minority groups from the Assyrian, Chaldean and Yezidi communities, much needed food aid and warm blankets were given out in bleak winter conditions. The medical team worked closely with the local Ministry of Health, to assist women and girls sexually abused by ISIS.
Many children fill the camps and make up the displaced numbers and it is these children in particular that I cannot forget...
The little girl living in a open unfinished building who held her hands together in glee, like a child that just received a magical Christmas present. This little girl was just happy to have food. Her entire family has been killed by ISIS. She is the lone survivor.
The boys that, though barely 10 years old, bravely helped drag the aid packets that were almost as heavy as they were home to their families. They helped form a human chain to unpack the aid with determination to be a part of their community.
Some of the children just sat next to the bags of food and placed their hands on the aid.
The children were clearly hungry.
