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Water to Accelerate Sinjar's Hope: Wardiya Primary School

ISIS’ destruction of school buildings in Sinjar in 2014 and the slow rebuilding of the region’s infrastructure create delays in providing quality education and inclusive learning environments for Yazidi students. As part of Nadia’s Initiative’s ongoing work to bring quality education to the region, we recently completed rehabilitation of our second primary school in Wardiya village.

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Restoring Women's Agency through Economic Empowerment: Kozah's Fabric Shop

Access to capital, property rights, and labor markets are not always easy to come by for women in Sinjar. Nadia's Initiative is striving to empower every woman in Sinjar by equipping them with tangible tools to reclaim their agency and embrace their economic independence.

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Nadia's Initiative Restores Clean Water in Alqahtaniya

Global warming and climate change are serious threats to water-stressed regions like South Sinjar, where residents have little to no access to potable water. To address this pressing issue in a sustainable way, Nadia’s Initiative rehabilitated the WASH infrastructure in the Alqahtaniya complex.

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Water to Accelerate Sinjar's Hope: Kolka Primary School

Nadia's Initiative recognizes that rehabilitating local schools is critical to improving children's well-being, health, and productivity, while strengthening social circles among peers. To meet student needs, Nadia's Initiative built new and furnished Kolka Primary School on Sinjar Mountain.

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Improving Student Reading Habits: Building School Libraries Across Sinjar

Nadia’s Initiative is deeply committed to building, furnishing, and stocking libraries all over Sinjar; with the Al Taamim High School library becoming the fourth of its kind in the region. The construction and furnishing of this new school library will benefit 875 students.

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Children in Sinjar Develop Resiliency & Learn to Heal from Trauma

Early childhood education is not easy to come by in the Sinjar region of Iraq or in the IDP camps in the Kurdistan region. Years of exposure to violence and conflict have had an adverse impact on Yazidi children's ability to nurture resiliency, develop social skills, and heal from trauma.

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Nadia's Initiative Creates Economic Opportunities in Sinjar

Small business owners in Sinjar long for their socio-economic reintegration into the region’s markets, both to revive their businesses and improve their income generation capacity. Nadia's Initiative and USAID are working together to improve residents’ livelihoods and stimulate Sinjar’s economy.

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Paving the Way for Reparations for Yazidi Survivors

Female survivors of ISIS captivity and sexual violence from the Yazidi and other minority communities suffered great harm under ISIS. To heal, they need reparations and dedicated social welfare services that address the trauma they have experienced.

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