Iraqis Help Displaced Fellow Citizens Survive

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Iraqis Help Displaced Fellow Citizens Survive
Local Groups Organizing to Feed Families Living in Poorly-Supplied IDP Camps
Posted 0 hr. 35 min. ago



Baghdad, IRAQ: Iraqi displaced children play outside a camp for displaced people in Baghdad's al-Karrada neighbourhood, 25 March 2007.
Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty


BAGHDAD, 1 May 2007 (IRIN) - Some families in Baghdad have started working together to collect food and essential items for displaced people living in makeshift camps on the outskirts of the capital - an initiative that has been welcomed by local NGOs.

"The idea came from a child who was missing two of his friends who were displaced. His family decided to take the child to visit them. When they got back home he asked his mother to send some food to his friends' families. His mother then spoke about it to a neighbour of theirs as the situation of the displaced was desperate," said Sa'ad Ruweidi, one of the organisers of the project.

"Since then, hundreds of families have been collecting food and other items from their neighbours to send to camps for IDPs . These items have been helping the displaced survive, as NGOs are not able to cope and with the increase in violence are scared to go to such areas," Ruweidi added.

Despite its extremely volatile situation, Baghdad has more displaced people living there than any other city in Iraq, with about 120,000 people displaced since February 2006, according to a recent report by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI). It added that many of these were displaced from within Baghdad.

Six neighbourhoods of the capital, with relatively less violence than others, are participating in the initiative.

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[Monkeyman]

1. K&R

[madokie]

2. Dammit I hate it when my glasses fog up like this

makes it hard to see the monitor. what kind of monsters have we, Americans become?

[babylonsister]

3. And our generosity knows no bounds. I think this is a tribute to the

Iraqi spirit, and it sickens me what we've done to them.

[madokie]

4. sure it is. its all the time I read this or that putting the onus on the Iraqi

leave them alone let them go on about their way they couldn't do any worse. What we have to do is hold the perpertrators accountable and help them to rebuild their country, not with our presence but with our blessings which can not be considered as handouts either, bushes* cartel broke it now we have to pay for it. They never deserved what has/is happening to them, they're innocent, so very innocent.:cry:

no matter what one might like to think we are responsible for the bush* cartel, all of us whether we voted for his sorry ass or not.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. "They made a desert and called it peace." Tacitus