Hello and welcome to our project Rows for Refugees. We are excited for you to join us and learn more about this particular group of refugees and, maybe, knit along the way.
Handknits produced through this initiative will go directly to a camp serving Syrians and internally displaced people from Iraq in the Kurdistan region of Iraq . These are people who cannot, for various reasons, make it out of the immediate region.
Why this camp? After working in Iraq and the region of Kurdistan for over five years, I have a direct link to a camp near Sulaymaniyah run by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The handknit items will be taken to the camp personally, or in an extreme circumstance sent via DHL, and distributed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and UNHCR. The sidebar contains some in-depth readings about the situation globally and locally.
Handknits produced through this initiative will go directly to a camp serving Syrians and internally displaced people from Iraq in the Kurdistan region of Iraq . These are people who cannot, for various reasons, make it out of the immediate region.
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| Camp near Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. Courtesy of G. Haney. |
Why this camp? After working in Iraq and the region of Kurdistan for over five years, I have a direct link to a camp near Sulaymaniyah run by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The handknit items will be taken to the camp personally, or in an extreme circumstance sent via DHL, and distributed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and UNHCR. The sidebar contains some in-depth readings about the situation globally and locally.
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