Gender Equality Iraq Project #21522

Yezidi Women's Services

by Free Yezidi Foundation

Project Report | Mar 3, 2017
FYF celebrates graduation, accepts Nokia grant

By Pari Ibrahim | FYF Executive Director

Pari Ibrahim with children's center graduate

Dear Friends,

In February, Free Yezidi Foundation women's center and children's center participants graduated from their three-month course. FYF arranged a graduation ceremony to honor the achievements of the 74 women and 146 children. Each graduate received a certificate. In addition, each woman received a gift while children received a new pair of shoes.

To view a video of the graduation, please click here:

FYF is proud of the achievements of our graduates, and we hope that the skills they have learned will help them in the future. Good luck graduates!

Free Yezidi Foundation participated in a contest to receive funding from Nokia

The Free Yezidi Foundation was among five nonprofits invited by Global Giving to participate in a Nokia video contest. We are very pleased to receive a donation from Nokia to help advance our work in the Khanke IDP camp. Thank you Nokia!

Thank you, everyone, for your generosity and support to the Free Yezidi Foundation!

Sincerely,

- Pari Ibrahim
Executive Director
Free Yezidi Foundation

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Dec 6, 2016
End of Year Review

By Pari Ibrahim | FYF Executive Director

Displaced Yezidi children at the Free Yezidi Foundation's playground in the Khanke IDP camp in Iraq

Dear Friends,

Thanks to your generous support over the last year, we have continued to expand our direct services to Yezidi women and children while actively encouraging the international community to support Yezidi survivors.

Yezidi civilians, including the children above, were forced to flee their homes in Shingal (Sinjar) in 2014, leaving them homeless and desperate, settling in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs). Your support has contributed to our efforts to provide education, care, support, and training to women and children. This has helped to transform their lives, one at a time. Your generous assistance has made it possible to empower women and educate children in the Yezidi community.

Free Yezidi Foundation women's center - group art project

Some of our activities in 2016:

Our center in Khanke now includes six fully equipped prefabricated buildings, rather than only one last year. We look forward to welcoming a full-time psychologist in January, whose work will complement the English, computer, livelihood and business skills, and women's rights courses already being delivered to our women's center participants. FYF staff members - all Yezidi IDPs themselves - have been trained in psychological first aid so that they can better assist our beneficiaries.

Advocacy: FYF has been featured in a number of news articles and videos in the past year, including the feature documentary by the Dutch news show, Brandpunt. Along with a number of visits overseas to raise awareness of the plight of Yezidis, FYF brought two Yezidi survivors to United Nations Headquarters, while carefully ensuring that their needs were met and their stories were not exploited at any time.

In 2017, FYF plans to deliver far more services in the IDP camps. To ensure that the Free Yezidi Foundation can continue to serve its beneficiaries effectively, and is capable of meeting all the needs in the coming year, we urge you - friends, supporters, and donors - to consider making an end-of-year donation to the Free Yezidi Foundation.

I would like to thank you for your support to our Foundation and the Yezidi people over the past year. We look forward to a successful 2017 and a brighter and happier future for Yezidis worldwide.

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Sep 26, 2016
Hope after Hell

By Pari Ibrahim | FYF Executive Director

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