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.
The Syrian refugee crisis continues! More than 360,000 people (Kurds, Christians, Assyrians) have been displaced by the ongoing fighting that has been occurring. They are now refugees in desperate need of your help. We haveteams on the ground in Iraqi Kurdistan where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are fleeing to. In these camps, we provide medical relief, give food, and distribute winter clothes. $40 will help a family with food costs for a month! $20 will help a family be examined by a doctor, receive medication, along with clothes for the winter. Donate today to help the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in need! DONATE NOW!
Our partners in the Middle East have told us that the situation is tough and many are walking, going to Iraq, specifically Dohuk. Kurds, Christians, and Yazidis are fleeing the area, as there is no food in Syria and all the areas that have been supplying food have been hit hard by the Turkish invasion. Currently thousands of Syrians are fleeing to Iraq, which is safer for now, but may not be for much longer. Northern Iraq, which is home to hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees, are packed with displacement camps and are already short on supplies. At the moment, our students in Iraq are safe, but please continue to pray for their safety. Please also pray with us and donate as we are doing all we can to help those who are fleeing and suffering if you would like to be apart of bringing aid to this crisis.
Tragedy has hit the Middle East again in northeastern Syria as US president Donald Trump has pulled the American troops out of the region. Turkish and ISIS forces are now invading and uprooting the already vulnerable area. We need your help and your prayers now more than ever. Our hearts are breaking as our partners and refugees there are in harm’s way. Kurds are being killed and the unrest in the are will likely spend and continue to cause panic. Please pray for all those affected by this, consider donating to our cause, and pray for God to work miraculously in ISIS and Turkish territory. We are seeking to send humanitarian containers as soon as we can. We need all the help we can get!!
It is with great joy that we invite you to attend our upcoming container loading day of our next shipment to Iraq. We’ll pray together and bless the shipment as it gets loaded and sent to the military base in Riverside from which it’ll be sent to their base in Erbil.
We will be loading up 20 pallets that will benefit 20,000 individuals!
This loading event will take place next Tuesday, August 13, at 09:00 AM at our office in Rosemead, CA. We would love to see you all as we bless the shipment and send it off to bless many displaced people, including Christians and Yazidis, in Iraq. We would love any help we can get for this day going towards helping those in need in the Middle East!
A recent container shipment arrived and our local group from the Dohuk church and members of the Ministry of Health went help distribute the items in it. This team of individuals climbed to the top of Sinjar mountain today and faced brutal cold weather to deliver the blankets and warm clothing donated by our partners in California. Thank God for all of you who made a difference to save a life. Today, as the container arrived, we all begin to reap what we’ve sowed across the world. God bless all of you!
Noble Peace Prize winner, Dr. and Pastor Dennis Mukwege and President of Roads of Success Yvette Isaac, discuss how their Egyptian and Congolese families taught them the power of faith to do the impossible for humanity. Today, they are founders of organizations that help so many fulfill their dreams. #standspeakriseup #wearenotweaponsofwar
Proud to #standspeakriseup with Ekhlas Bajoo, our resilient survivor and Ambassador of Hope and Her Royal Highness, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. Today, Ekhlas speaks out for all survivors of sexual violence in conflict reminding the world that we are all ambassadors of hope. #wearenotweaponsofwar
