This Giving Tuesday, join Iraqi Children Foundation (ICF) in our mission to transform the lives of vulnerable children across Iraq, including orphans and child laborers. With your support, we can provide essential educational resources, healthcare services, psychosocial support, legal aid, and emergency assistance to those in need.
According to UNICEF, there were an estimated 800,000 orphans by the end of the Iraq war. During the time of ISIS, an estimated 1.3 million kids were displaced. Thousands of child laborers and vulnerable children beg, sell items on the streets, collect cans at the dump, or work in risky workplaces. Many suffer from trauma and lack legal documents to attend school and get government benefits. These kids are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation by criminals, traffickers, and extremists.
Protect. Nurture. Empower. Street Lawyers work with the community, police, and judges to protect and defend kids who are arrested or victims of trafficking, and to obtain critical legal documents. Doctors intervene with medical care and social workers address child labor, trauma, abuse and neglect. The colorful Hope Buses deliver tutoring, nutrition, psycho-social services, and fun to orphans and at-risk children. Girls centers provide safe spaces for adolescents to learn, connect and seek help.
These services promise to continue to be life-changing! Thousands of vulnerable children have received legal support including documents, thousands more have benefitted from medial and social services across three cities in Iraq. More than 700 children have received tutoring, meals, and health care at our "Hope Bus" classrooms on wheels. More funds means these services can be scaled up to reach more at-risk kids!
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