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Humanitarian Response to the Middle East:
As we celebrate our noble mission of helping people in war zone areas, we want to update you with our humanitarian operations in those areas:

Humanitarian Work in Northern Iraq

In Iraq, we strived to respond to the health care needs by establishing a medical clinic in the village of Sigy in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. The final renovations and maintenance on the clinic were finished in the finest manner possible, in order to ensure the adequate delivery of health services. Additionally, free medical treatment and products were provided by family doctors and gynaecologists to the needy displaced persons, and refugees in this region. Our mission is in line with the advocacy of David McCoy of Queen Mary University, London, who encourages thinking beyond the humanitarian lens to the link between health and peace, stating that “the health community has the legitimacy and mandate to work more upstream” on the prevention of violence and conflict.

Humanitarian Work in Egypt

Driven from the vision that women education is central to boosting development, and breaking the cycle of poverty, it was urgent to provide quality education for women and girls in the deprived areas. Hence, we are thrilled to announce the completion of the English language course, provided by ROS team. Your support helped in offering English classes with an American teacher over Zoom to 14 students. We believe that such education leads to a fairer, better, more productive lives as well as a profound economic impact. Learning English is an invaluable skill, which will help them get a step up in the job market and provide them with more opportunities for financial stability. 

In addition to the fact that educating women and girls is a human right, empowering women contributes to reducing poverty and inequality as well as strengthening democratic citizenship in the countries. Therefore, we have continued to help widows and others in need in order to gain financial freedom by offering them a free sewing training course. The skills they learn help them start profitable businesses, which allow them to provide financially for themselves and their children, and this week we were able to train another 10 women! 

Humanitarian Work in Syria

In Syria, we would like to express our special gratitude to our local partners for their help in distributing new humanitarian aid containers which were sent from Hong Kong. Their outstanding support enabled us to put special attention to the management of supplies. They contributed in distributing blankets, school supplies, clothes and shoes to approximately 3,000 IDPs and refugees in the cities of Homs, Hama and Al-Karama camp. Distribution is still underway in Damascus and Al-Suwaida. May the Lord bless everyone who contributed in sending this container in order to draw smiles of joy and happiness on the faces of the needy families and children in this region.

Donations compete for storage and transport facilities that may be in short supply. Our motto is, “We connect the people who have needs with the people who have hearts” and we feel so blessed that you have opened your heart to our cause.

To help further our cause, please consider donating at https://www.roadsofsuccess.org/donate.

The ROS is thrilled to announce its success in launching humanitarian commodities shipment to Kurdistan, northern Iraq.  The shipment consists of 184 boxes of shoes, wheel chairs, kids’ jumpers, 11 boxes of diapers, boxes of masks, 4 blanket bags, kids’ playground foam mattes to be distributed in refugee camps. This is alongside basic need supplies.

The urge for shipping to Northern Iraq

Iraq remains facing humanitarian concerns since millions are in need for an immediate assistance and protection. The years of conflict affected millions, eroded social cohesion, disrupted access to basic services, and destroyed livelihoods which led to increased risks. With limited progress towards development and recovery, millions across Iraq remain in need of humanitarian assistance. According to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), as of 31 July 2021, there remained 1,191,470 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq.

The Middle East is still facing complex and multiple conflicts, crisis, damages and displacement. Education, vital healthcare, water infrastructure are all at risk. Therefore, your donations will empower us to deliver adequate support in a timely manner. Your collaboration and support will help us to coordinate and promote more shipments to rescue families and children. 

In Egypt, women’s economic empowerment is a national priority. Empowering women is pivotal to increasing economic growth and reducing poverty. In the same line, the protection and promotion of women in the Middle East is critical to the ROS agenda. We are committed to promoting women’s rights and protecting them against exclusion.  Therefore, the ROS initiates a tailoring and sewing course for women in Upper Egypt as a solution to improve their status and to ensure  their accountability. 

In our program, village women in Egypt are taught sewing and stitching skills to help them earn livelihood. We believe that societies thrive when women have equal access to services and resources. 

The tailoring course aims to:

• Covert poor unskilled or semi skilled women into skilled tailors,
• Provide regular monitoring and skill-based training to sustain income generation activities,
• Enable women to increase their income in order to secure their livelihoods,
• Support women-led entrepreneurship and promote their linkage to the market,
•  Enhance rural women’s participation and leadership in their communities,
• Effective enforcement of women’s right and access to decent wage employment,
• Ensure social protection,
• Promote women’s economic empowerment,
• Reduce migration.

Your donations are much appreciated as it will support us to create more local projects and make a change to the global scale. 

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According to the UN report, more than 6 million people have fled Ukraine, and 8 million people are internally displaced. Additionally risks of abuse, sexual exploitation, human trafficking and gender based violence is escalating.

However, despite all the pain and sorrow, we reached thousands of the Ukrainians to offer them relief buckets and containers with supplies. These boxes contain shoes, walkers and wheelchairs, blankets, clothes, kids jumpers, kids playground foam, and food. These shipments are meant to ensure basic services and strengthen protection. In addition, we blessed many torn apart children with toy bags to draw smiles on their faces.

The situation in Ukraine in changing by the hour, and the scale of destruction in almost all sectors is utterly shocking. Your donations will make an impact!