A SHOUT against the atrocities that terrorist militias of the Islamic State (ISIS) are committing in Iraq. Entire families who do not want to abnegate their faith are forced to flee to avoid summary execution and find themselves in an arisen hard precarious situation.
Of ENCOURAGEMENT because we want to help cover basic needs of displaced Iraqi families and make them feel, with our encouragement and support, that they are not alone.
Our SHOUT of ENCOURAGEMENT is aimed at displaced Christian families from Mosul, Batnaya, Tall Kayf, Qaraqosh, Bartala or Nineveh, that found refuge in Baghdad, and all those that initially took refuge in other regions, and are forced by the harsh conditions in the north, to move to the capital.
Many of these families have lost everything when they were forced to flee their homes without notice, taking only what they wore. To this suffering you can add discouragement and grief at the failure to achieve what they most crave: to return home.
The FPSC initially supported Christian families hosted by the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in an old school next to the Church of Ntra. Sra. Del Rosario, in the Shiite district of Karrada, where priority was to get basic necessities.
At present these same families along with others, in total more than 130, previously refugees and scattered in the capital, have been relocated to the camp Virgin Mary, which already has more than 120 children and youth aged between 5 and 20 years, and more than 60 children under 5 years.
This camp is located in the Shiite neighbourhood of Zayounah on a plot of the Assyrian Christian party. It houses 147 caravans that initially provided by the Iraqi government, have required subsequent conditioning to shelter Christian families, the vast majority of Syrian Catholic rite, but also Chaldean and Syrian-Orthodox or Assyrian from the Church of the East.
Each caravan consists of a bedroom, a living room, kitchen and bathroom. However, sometimes the living room is used as a second bedroom when a single caravan is inhabited by more than one family. The rest of the caravans are used as common areas: an ecumenical church to use different rites, a school, a clinic, etc.
Shortages in this camp are many. The management responsibility is entrusted to the Assyrian Church, through Father Martin; logistics coordination and seeking funding for the maintenance of the camp, to the universal Church
Those responsible, the Nunciature and Father Luis Montes VE, parish priest of the Latin Cathedral of Baghdad San Jose and Santa Teresa of the Child Jesus, are seeking supply the most urgent needs: to distribute basic necessities, guarantee supplies to meet the needs of refugees in the field of health and build a nursery.
The Sisters of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Baghdad continue its assistance to displaced Christian families in the refugee camp, and have installed a mobile clinic, formerly ceded by the Order of Malta, as an ambulatory, where you can offer medical and health care, with the support of volunteer doctors, and distribute drugs for free. Currently a doctor attends the patient consultations twice a week.
The support of the FPSC, from private donations, and in coordination with the heads of the camp, is aimed at:
- Provide basic necessities for the camp population.
- Buy medicines to provide the outpatient department
- Cover other needs on demand.
Join the FPSC, and send your ENCOURAGEMENT in the form of help with your SHOUT against this serious attack against humanity.
