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Alive in Baghdad: Most orphanages a disgrace, this is a story of one that works
Saturday May 10th, 2008
We show this segment courtesy of www.aliveinbaghdad.org. Alive in Baghdad employs Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq.
The number of Iraqi orphans increased in the last few years due to the war. According to official Iraqi government statistics released in December 2007, the number of Iraqi orphans had reached at least five million over the last three years. Many due to the Sunni-Shia conflict. There are several social organizations caring for a small number of these Iraqi orphans, such as Child Aid International.
There are approximately 26 orphanages that Alive in Baghdad has been able to locate around Iraq. Eight orphanages are in Baghdad and another 18 are distributed all over Iraq and generally they accept kids between the age of 6 and 18 years old.
One of the biggest scandals that happened in the history of the Iraq conflict is the one that happened in Al-Hanan orphanage. There were many pictures distributed online and by television of Iraqi orphans lying on the floor naked, with no food for weeks, sick and nearly dying. After this the Iraqi government began to show more attention for the orphans, there were many stories being reported regarding Al-Hanan Orphanage, like sexual abuses and bad treatment of the kids living there.
Al-A’ssal House is one of the rare orphanages that still take care of the young children who have a dead father or who are orphans due to losing both parents. The house has a special method and it’s opposed to the toy guns due to Iraq’s situation and the reason behind it, which is the constant conflict that Iraq is undergoing.
Another organization was also created by this house, and it’s called the Sazan organization. This organization is taking in orphans for free, with no payment at all. Also this house employs Iraq widows in order to help the Iraqi women support themselves during the war. Despite all their hard work, this orphanage has not yet received any funding from the Iraqi government or sponsorship by a bigger humanitarian aid organization while other orphanages such as Al-Hanan orphanage received funds from the Iraqi government without oversight.
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samedi 10 mai 2008
lundi 17 décembre 2007
IRAQ: Women MPs, activists call for more support for widows, divorced women
BAGHDAD, 17 December 2007
(IRIN) - Iraqi women parliamentarians and activists are pressing for a new law to help the increasing number of widows and divorced women in their war-torn country. "We are in the process of presenting a new draft law which portrays the tragedy of the women who have no one to support them, like widows and the divorced," said member of parliament (MP) Nadira Habib, deputy head of Iraq's parliamentary committee for women's and children's affairs.
Nadira explained that there were no fewer than one million Iraqi widows who had lost their husbands in wars or as a result of internal violence over the past three decades. She said only 800 billion Iraqi dinars (about US$664 million) is allocated in the 2008 budget to the country's social protection programme.
Created to cope with increasing social problems after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the social protection programme provides widows, divorced women, orphans, the handicapped and the unemployed with a monthly allowance of 50,000 Iraqi dinars each (about US$50). "This is not enough.
With the government's food rations, these allowances only take such families up [to] near the poverty line," Nadira said. If the draft legislation is successful the Ministry of Women's Affairs would run the new programme in coordination with other government departments and non-governmental women's groups.
Salama Simaisim, an independent women's activist believed that helping such women find jobs would also be a boon for the economy as many of them depended solely on either the government or relatives for financial support.
Training
"We have to teach them how to fish, not give them fish to eat," said Simaisim. "The government's support should not be just financial but should include training programmes to help women find jobs in the public and private sectors," she added. "There should be centres to rehabilitate them, to get those who abandoned their jobs back into work, and find jobs for the newly graduated - which is far better than handing them money," Simaisim explained.
Another female lawmaker and activist warned that if these families were not supported the whole society could fall apart. "The number of widows is increasing and if these families break up then the whole of society will be in danger," said Maissoon al-Damalogi. "These women need to be rehabilitated and trained to work in many fields; to be useful and productive in society," al-Damalogi added.
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(IRIN) - Iraqi women parliamentarians and activists are pressing for a new law to help the increasing number of widows and divorced women in their war-torn country. "We are in the process of presenting a new draft law which portrays the tragedy of the women who have no one to support them, like widows and the divorced," said member of parliament (MP) Nadira Habib, deputy head of Iraq's parliamentary committee for women's and children's affairs.
Nadira explained that there were no fewer than one million Iraqi widows who had lost their husbands in wars or as a result of internal violence over the past three decades. She said only 800 billion Iraqi dinars (about US$664 million) is allocated in the 2008 budget to the country's social protection programme.
Created to cope with increasing social problems after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the social protection programme provides widows, divorced women, orphans, the handicapped and the unemployed with a monthly allowance of 50,000 Iraqi dinars each (about US$50). "This is not enough.
With the government's food rations, these allowances only take such families up [to] near the poverty line," Nadira said. If the draft legislation is successful the Ministry of Women's Affairs would run the new programme in coordination with other government departments and non-governmental women's groups.
Salama Simaisim, an independent women's activist believed that helping such women find jobs would also be a boon for the economy as many of them depended solely on either the government or relatives for financial support.
Training
"We have to teach them how to fish, not give them fish to eat," said Simaisim. "The government's support should not be just financial but should include training programmes to help women find jobs in the public and private sectors," she added. "There should be centres to rehabilitate them, to get those who abandoned their jobs back into work, and find jobs for the newly graduated - which is far better than handing them money," Simaisim explained.
Another female lawmaker and activist warned that if these families were not supported the whole society could fall apart. "The number of widows is increasing and if these families break up then the whole of society will be in danger," said Maissoon al-Damalogi. "These women need to be rehabilitated and trained to work in many fields; to be useful and productive in society," al-Damalogi added.
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