OPERATION DAGSVÆRK:Refugee Project Moves Down South

After the successes of the project in Iraqi-Kurdistan, the project has now moved down south to give a helping hand to the IDP Turkmens and Shabaks who have moved down to Najaf, Karbalah border and Basra.
On September 19th, Al-Salam Football School and its delegates from Baghdad and Basra went to Najaf to open a school for 270 children from the local refugee camps with 20 volunteers provided by the Najaf municipality.
The school will include a center for sports, education and culture. Which will be open all days of the week for the children of the refugee camps. An opening in Mishkhat near Karbalah followed the opening in Najaf.
In Mishkhat 175 children participated with 18 volunteers from the refugee camps, a forgotten city in the current political crisis which the media had forgotten about until CCPA showed up.
Soon to follow new schools in Kut and Basra will be opened; in southern Iraq, the majority of the refugees are Turkmens and Shabaki Kurds who fled the provinces of Kirkuk, Salahudine and Diyalah.
As the network is growing rapidly, a board will be set-up under Al-Salam as an umbrella organisation, the partners (sub-organisations) will provide members who will be networking across Iraq to keep the project alive through their own expertize in the field they are specialist in.