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A Volunteer’s Feelings During a Roofing Mission

By Rawaa A. Mohammed. “I dropped out of school! Girls at my class used to bully me all the time–and since I cannot afford new and fancy clothes like theirs, they would abuse me verbally and mentally.” Huda, a little orphan, shared her yearning to get back to school with one of the IB volunteers; with shy tears coming out of her eyes, though she tried to hide them with an innocent smile. Suah, a 31-year-old, a young woman who suffered tremendously in her life; she had to move in with her brother due to her loss of both of […]

To Whom it May Concern

By Rawaa A. Mohammed. Hey you, that are fighting with each other in our homeland.You, that are shouting with repulsive sectarian words.You, that pour pain in our bodies and singe in our eyes.You, that killed our beloved friends throwing their bodies in wayside distorted and shredded. Have you ever thought what you have done to the children of this sad country?I don’t care where did the bombs strike or what happened afterwards, what really concerns me is a 7-year-old child!What should I do to him? Letting him strike his country with bombs as well or leaving him to the miserable […]

IRAQ Builders Team’s Humanity

By Zaid Abbas. After  they got displaced form Fallujah, Salahuddin and Tal Afar by ISIS, the Iraqi families who lived there were forced to move to Al-Ghazaliyah and Al-Hurriyah leaving their possessions and living in schools! IRAQ Builders team, as usual, are there to help our people and supply them with all what they need,  4 water pumps, 4 refrigerators, 5 cookers, 3 water tanks, 25 sleeping bags and 30 food baskets were distributed.

Words of a Mother From Al-Nasiriyah

By Leen Alqudsi. “I’m waiting for my little daughters to grow up and get married, to take their responsibility off” Words of a mother, who is tired of poverty and life’s severity, words that were a call for the heroes of IRAQ Builders in Al-Nasiriyah to go and give Oum Karrar a hand to help and roof her house to live in with her children with dignity. By the team’s efforts and the donations from merciful hearts, the mission was accomplished, to be ended with prayers and tears of happiness.

Recreating Hope Among Iraq’s Displaced Families Continues

By Mina Sabah. This time our team, IRAQ Builders, rushed to help the families from Nineveh plains, Hamdaniyah & Tel-afar. Those families who did not know what sleep, rest nor peace are for the past months, they came to take refuge and a home in the houses and schools in one of the areas of Baghdad, Al-Ameen.

The Tragic Story of Oum Haider’s Family From Al-Nasiriyah

By Alzahraa A. Razzaq. “I couldn’t let them extract her eyes, she is a girl, what a miserable life she will live if that happens!!” Shedding tears, with her broken-hearted voice, Oum Haider said that sentence which had wept our tears (IRAQ Builders team in Al-Nasiriyah). Oum Haider, an Iraqi married woman, who has four children but the life showed her and her children all kinds of severity and hardship. Not the life only!! The terrorism also shared in her tragedy, by losing her husband in one of the terrorist bombs, leaving four orphans. Moreover, such hard and unmerciful life […]

New School Year

By Leen Alqudsi. Every child, every student, is eager to get new supplements for the new school year, new clothes, stationery, and a new bag. In September, markets are crowded with people to buy what they need to start a happy new school year. IRAQ Builders team were the parents this time for 35 orphan children. On the last Friday, they went with the children to Baghdad Al-Jadida market to supply them with hope and smiles to start a successful year. They bought for them clothes, bags and some other stuffs. Despite of their need, of the poverty, they were […]

Call of Humanity

By Leen Alqudsi. The Christians of Iraq are considered to be among the oldest surviving continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast majority are Eastern Aramaic-speaking ethnic Assyrians; however, there is a very small community of Armenians, too. In Iraq, Christians numbered about 1,500,000 in 2003, representing just over 5% of the population of the country. They numbered over 1.4 million in 1987 or 8% of the population. After the Iraq War, it was estimated that the number of Christians in Iraq had dropped to less than 450,000 by 2013 – with estimates as low as 200,000. Chaldean Catholics form […]

Not The First City, Neither The Last

By M Ibrahim Haboubi. Once again, in their outstanding campaign to help the displaced families, Al-Ta’awn Charitable Association and its voluntary team “IRAQ Builders” continued their journey to give help as much as possible.

“Iraq Project” Dreams Under Construction

By Watan M. Al-Taie. IRAQ Builders are real builders in the fullest sense of the word, that means they are actually building in brick and plaster, to fulfill a dream of housing needed people who are threatened to be thrown out of their homes.

Video of Helping Displaced People in Chikuk, Baghdad

Al-Ta’awn Charity Association and their voluntary team IRAQ Builders continue their campaign, being the helping hand to serve the displaced families from Amerli, Bashiqa and Tuz Khurmatu. Several air coolers were distributed plus, several refrigerators and food supplies, also all the children’s need of milk.The campaign also included supplying a large amount of medicines and preforming medical treatment by the medical staff of our team.

Serving Needy Families is an Honor for us

By Zaid Abbas. Under the Campaign of “Emigrants are our People”, IRAQ Builders‬ team moved to ‘Al-Sadiyah’ and exactly to Belad Al-Arab School to supply food and medical materials for the displaced families there.After that our team moved to Al-Sadiyah Industrial School to help the displaced people who live there and give them home materials, food and medical care.

Appreciation to People Behind the Scene

By M Ibrahim Haboubi. Al-Taawn Charitable Society and its volunteering team, IRAQ Builders, would like to express their extreme gratitude and deep appreciation to the administration of (Oyoon Baghdad Restaurants) and especially to Mr. Kareem M. Al-Shemmari (General director), for their great and active role in the establishment of the third charity market of the team, which its profits were allocated to help the displaced families in Iraq.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

By Leen Alqudsi. All the time we see and hear that the situation is bad, there is a catastrophe and there are people in need, catchwords and slogans are every where and the result is nothing, just more and more of victims and displaced families. IRAQ Builders team once again came to achieve the promise, they surpassed the words and are doing their best to reach every needy family.