IRAQ –– While the world’s attention is been riveted on the plight of Iraq’s suffering Yazidi community, BGR humanitarian partners have been working in other parts of the country among some 250,000 other displaced Iraqis.Those efforts focused on providing survival supplies to newly arrived refugees and helping displaced families launch businesses that can provide for their long-term needs.
News outlets reported Aug. 11 that Kurdish fighters were able to rescue some 20,000 Yazidi Iraqis after airstrikes broke a siege conducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militia. The United States and United Kingdom both had airdropped supplies to that group of Yazidis, which has since made the hard trek to the Syrian border.
As ISIS fighters overran the cities of Mosul, Tikrit and Tel Afar, an estimated 200,000 people fled, many with nothing more than the belongings they could carry, one of those BGR partners reported. When about 20,000 of those displaced families arrived where the partners were working, the team was able to help meet emergency needs for several hundred families by providing locally purchased tents, drinking water, infant formula and basic food staples. Read more at Baptist Global Response here.
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