In the midst of horrific conditions that forced them out of their homes to live in camps for many years, many children are found barefoot and have suffered from the heat of the summer and the extreme cold in the winter because they do not have shoes to protect their feet, which deprives them of their most basic human rights.
Thanks to your continuous and generous support, we were able to send and distribute many shoes to hundreds of children in Kabarto Camp in Dohuk Village, Northern Iraq, as shown in the pictures. With your continued support we will do more together.
These children would still suffer the harms of walking barefoot, if it wasn’t for your love and support to them.
Thank you for partnering with us in securing a better situation for the displaced children in Northern Iraq. The children of Dohuk love you and thank you for standing with them!
ROS Humanitarian Work in Northern Iraq – Update July 13
This week, we together were able to:
Serve over 50 patients at our clinic in Northern Iraq.
Provide medical services to 15 women who were examined by the gynecologist.
The Roads of success is grateful for your continuous support. Your partnership assists in providing medical and mental services to the displaced in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq.
Your humanitarian response to the needs of the displaced and refugees, in all its forms and shapes, is crucial in helping us create moments of happiness, hope and peace. Furthermore, your partnership is powerful for inspiring many people to fulfill the promise of creating a better world. We have witnessed the positive impact of taking actions towards the most vulnerable, and that is something we are really proud of.
The Roads of success, also, value how your partnership ensures a more integrated, effective, results-oriented and comprehensive approach to protect and assist the refugees and the displaced. We started this because of you, and we’ll continue serving these people together.
This week, with your support, together we’re able to do the following:
Served over 65 patients at our clinic in Northern Iraq.
Medical services were provided to 21 women who were examined by the gynecologist.
Our playground served approximately 350 young boys and girls during the week.
Thank you for your partnership in providing medical and mental services to the displaced in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq.
We started this because of you, and we’ll continue serving these people together.
Please continue supporting our humanitarian work in Northern Iraq . We connect the people who have hearts with the people who have needs. Donate Now!
We thank our good God for the services provided to the IDPs through ROS clinic during the previous week, where medical services were provided in the women’s clinic and the family doctor’s clinic, and free medicines were distributed to 49 displaced and refugee patients and 15 women were examined by the gynecologist. These people are treated and their medical needs and treatments are provided by the grace of the Lord and your support.
Thank you for your partnership in providing medical services to the displaced in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq.
We connect the people who have hearts with the people who have needs. Donate Now!
We thank our good God for being able to serve the medical needs of the people in Northern Iraq through ROS clinic. During the previous three weeks, more than 150 patients suffering from various diseases were served and provided with medicines free of charge, as well as having our gynecologist examine many women in the area.
Thank you for your continued love and support to help us continue providing medical services for the displaced in the Kurdistan Region, Northern Iraq.
We connect the people who have hearts with the people who have needs. Donate Now!
United Nations’ Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting
Dear supporters & friends,
Please join ROS this Friday, March 19, from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST in support of ROS’ fearless Ambassador of Hope Ekhlas Bajoo and Vice President, Jacqueline Isaac, as they go before the United Nations Security Council alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury to advocate for the protection of members of minority religious communities in conflict during an Arria-Formula Meeting hosted by the government of the United Kingdom. Ekhlas will be speaking about her personal experience as a survivor of ISIS captivity and religious persecution and how religious actors have supported her journey to empowerment by ending the stigma surrounding sexual violence. To join Ekhlas & Jacqueline, please visit the following link on Friday: http://webtv.un.org/.
Best Regards, Yvette Isaac President of Roads of Success
Yvette Isaac’s live BBC News interview on Pope Francis visit to Iraq
Yvette Isaac, President of Roads of Success speaks of the situation of Christians in Iraq and of the hope on the horizon ignited by the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis.
These crucially needed supplies and medical equipment went to the Internally displaced and refugees in northern Iraq. COVID is making its way through Iraq and, now more than ever, they need our help. Join us in the effort to care for our brothers and sisters in Northern Iraq by donating on the link in our bio. Your support will allow us to send more pallets of needed supplies during this crucial time.
Be The Bridge.
We are here to be the bridge between those who have hearts and those who have needs. And that’s what we will continue to do, even amid a global pandemic. You, too, can help bring hope and be the bridge. Join us in our effort to bring hope and much-needed supplies to those around the world by donating your time or resources. Link in bio for more info on how to get involved.
This is truly an inspiring story of a gift of love and God’s provision. We are so thankful to John Leon and his family for the incredible gift of a wheelchair. His memory and legacy will live on in the lives of a child and mother in Iraq.
We are always in search of useable medical supplies and donations, like John Leon’s wheelchair. To find out more about how you can donate supplies or resources, visit the link in bio.
Hello ROS friends and family! We wanted to give a quick update on the Coronavirus, particularly to our friends and partners in the Middle East working with refugees. Below we have attached videos from our Tech Over Trauma manager, Hanaa, giving us tips on staying healthy. We also have information sheets that are very beneficial as well. Check our social media for more info too!
During the first part of December of 2019, some of our team members from the US went to Kurdistan to see our students and on the ground operations in Iraq. Yvette Isaac, ROS president and founder, Emily Shaffer, our staff writer, along with a few of our supporters went to Erbil, Iraq to connect with our team in Iraq. Arriving just 2 months after the Turkish attacks in northeastern Syria, we got to see first hand the devastation that had ensued with Kurdish Syrians fleeing into northern Iraq.
We were able to meet with our team on the ground in Iraq and observe the various projects occurring there:
Visited refugee camps our team works in around Dohuk and Erbil, where tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds had made a temporary home
Evaluate the needs in regards to medical attention as we have hired doctors and team members to help during this time of crisis, what supplies, equipment, and staffing there were in need of and how we could support them
Distribute clothes and accessories in refugee camps such as scarves, long undershirts, socks, hair bands, clips, hair ties
Meet with survivors of Isis captivity that we have grown close
Meeting and hearing from Princess of the Mian of the Yazidis About what the Yazidis are going through during this time, her ideas for recuperation, and what she needs from the local and international community.
Connecting with Lord David Alton, a primary figure in the British Parliament, and getting his perspective so we could all partner together to meet the various needs in the camps. He was then able to go back to the UK, sharing that with the rest of the British government
That camp in particular was mostly consisting of Syrian refugees who were flying north eastern Syria on the run from the Turkish attacks. We got to be present with a lot of kids and parents there which was really special to connect with them on that level. There was still so much pride and happiness that they carried with them such as being very hospitable and wanting to show off where they lived in their tents. Even grown men had transformed their tents into shops in market places or even little restaurants. They were really proud of what they had and what they could still do to be able to use their skills to benefit those around them.
Another significant aspect of our trip to Kurdistan was the opening of our clinic in Sigy. We have been building a medical clinic and the playground and classrooms there since the spring of 2019 and we were finally able to open this to the public officially in December 2019. We have a doctor on staff that is able to be at the clinic one day a week. However our goal is to have a doctor there five days out of the week. It was very exciting to have the support of several local Kurdish new stations along with government officials, church leaders in the region, and Dohuk health employees. Included at the site of Sigy were also classrooms we were able to construct. The layout also had a turf soccer field that we built back in the summer that kids were already enjoying playing on. Our team that came from the US to Kurdistan had a blast spending time with the kids in engaging with them and playing games together.
Despite Roads of Success being a small organization in a large region of the world, we were able to see firsthand the fruits of all that the Lord is doing in northern Iraq. We were able to better understand the needs of the area and how we can best support our team and the communities there. We came away inspired to continue the work that we were doing there, trusting that it is bringing healing and restoration to a volatile place. Our president and founder Yvette has become even more inspired to continue these projects in that region as we sink our roots into Kurdistan even further.
