Nadia's Initiative is mobilizing in Sinjar to respond swiftly and thoroughly to COVID-19 by disinfecting towns and villages, distributing personal protective equipment for primary health clinics and hospitals, and distributing emergency packages that include food and sanitation products to ensure families survive lockdown.
WeiterlesenEnsuring access to electricity is a key recovery priority for families living in or seeking to return to Sinjar. That’s why USAID, in partnership with Nadia’s Initiative, is working with the Sinjar Electricity Department to install 17 transformers in six locations in Sinjar.
WeiterlesenNadia’s Initiative rehabilitated 32 farming households throughout the Sinjar region – a project that began in September 2019. Farming has been a main source of income for Yazidis for generations, but when ISIS attacked the region in 2014, they intentionally burned and destroyed farms to ensure Yazidis would never return.
WeiterlesenDeveloping and rehabilitating public spaces is key to bringing communities together. Public spaces create the opportunity to strengthen social bonds, build a sense of communal identity, and play a vital role in rebuilding and improving quality of life.
WeiterlesenNadia’s Initiative is proud to partner with USAID and Youth Bridge Organization to rehabilitate and equip Al-Sha’kow Primary School in Sinjar to ensure that children are afforded the right to education and have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
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They have all won awards (one the Nobel Prize). They have all struggled and sacrificed. They have all pursued excellence and integrity. They have all fought for accountable government, rule of law, human rights—and a better world.
WeiterlesenNobel Peace Prize winner recognized for her advocacy of survivors of Yazidi genocide and worldwide victims of violence
Nadia Murad the human rights advocate show exposed ISIS’s ethnic cleansing of the Yazidi minority community in Iraq over five years ago said Saturday that justice can be a tool for accountability and deterrence in genocidal campaigns, but it must have a vision in order to be effective.
WeiterlesenNadia Murad and the Nadia’s Initiative team are excited to announce the official opening of the new Operating Theater and Maternity Ward in the existing Sinjar Hospital. As part of Nadia’s Initiative’s plans to provide emergency medical services to returnees and residents of the Sinjar region, the Operating Theater officially opened on February 4th. Access…
WeiterlesenAs we enter 2020, the year ahead is full of so much promise and opportunity to make the world a better, safer place. My hope for this year is that Nadia’s Initiative will continue to grow in our programs and our impact so that children and families have the opportunity to rebuild their lives…
WeiterlesenHistoric alliance of 2,020 campaigners unite to issue an open letter demanding world leaders tackle the emergency facing people and planet Signatories include world-leading activists and campaigners from Dr. Jane Goodall DBE and Malala Yousafzai, to leaders of movements including Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter; Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, Bring Back Our Girls; Tarana Burke…
WeiterlesenNadia’s Initiative has built a new primary school in Bahrava village, Sinjar. The previous school in Bahrava village was built with mud walls that were destroyed during the 2014 ISIS attacks.
WeiterlesenIn 2014, my life changed forever when ISIS invaded my home region of Sinjar and began ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yezidis. They killed approximately 5,000 of us and took over 6,400, mostly women and children, into captivity, many as sexual slaves…
WeiterlesenNadia’s Initiative recently rehabilitated Al Qurtaba Primary School in Dogri Complex, Sinjar. Access to quality education is a major concern for Yazidi returnees to Sinjar. This is why we work to create a positive learning environment that enables students in the region to thrive.
Weiterlesen“ISIS destroyed our farms and stole all our agricultural and household possessions. Despite this, we did not give up and decided to live on our destroyed farms without having any basic necessities.After a period of struggling, we received support from Nadia’s Initiative. The Initiative brought life back to the region.”
WeiterlesenThe UAE has announced a grant of AED 9.2 million (USD 2.5 million) to Nadia Murad's organization, Nadia’s Initiative, to develop comprehensive potable water, sanitation, and hygiene projects in Sinjar, Iraq.
WeiterlesenNadia's Initiative recently completed rebuilding Tal Qasab Primary School, thanks to support from the Government of Flanders and implementing partner Sunrise NGO.
WeiterlesenThe United Nations in Geneva hosted its first Young Activists Summit. The summit's theme was WOMEN AND GIRLS DRIVING PROGRESS, and Nadia spoke among a group of five other young female activists advocating for a better world - fighting to end child marriage, reduce plastic consumption, protect indigenous rights and land, and defend human rights.
WeiterlesenOn this Human Rights Day, I'd like to shed light on sexual violence—an important issue on which I have been working to raise awareness for several years. Five years ago, my life drastically changed when ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) invaded my hometown of Sinjar, Iraq, with the intention of committing genocide against the Yazidi people.
WeiterlesenAt the end of October 2019, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad launched a new initiative to assist the victims and survivors of sexual violence in conflict. The Global Survivors Fund is a mechanism that will provide survivors of conflict-related sexual violence with reparations and other forms of redress, especially where the perpetrators or states are unable or unwilling to do so.
WeiterlesenNovember 18th - 22nd is International Education Week! Education is one of our organization's main focus areas, and we have been rehabilitating / building multiple schools in the Sinjar region.
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