Our own qualified educator, Wafaa Tanius, started the women’s health groups today and over 45 women and girls attended the two sessions. For some, it was the first time they had ever heard anyone speak about their bodies and women’s health issues. Thank you to the Hervey Bay ‘Days for Girls’ chapter for providing Wafaa with 106 … Continue reading Women’s Health
October 2018 Update
Thank you for your donations which meant I could go out and buy 20 new plastic chairs for the school and 3 tables for the sewing group. I drove to Zakho (close to the Turkish border) to make the purchases and enjoyed walking the streets with market stalls. The Busy Medical Centre
Update from Iraq 2018
26 September It was wonderful to meet our dear friend Dr Dunia Musa AlMuderis again. Dr Dunia has played a special role in supporting individual IDPs with their medical and basic needs but also on a much wider scale by delivering heaters, fans, blankets and diapers numerous times into the camps for the refugees and internally displaced … Continue reading Update from Iraq 2018
The Story of the Yezidi People of NE Iraq
These are the people Operation Hope volunteers are working with this month in Iraq.
Preparing Medical Equipment
Big THANK YOU to Steve and Kim for the work they have done ensuring all the medical equipment donations are in working order and power plugs changed. Today it was checking and testing the four sterilisers….once these items reach Kurdistan, Northern Iraq they can be placed straight into use in the medical clinics, hospitals, heart … Continue reading Preparing Medical Equipment
Hospital Equipment for Iraq
Although filling the 40ft shipping container is already guaranteed with the incredible amount of donations we have already received, further donations are continuing to arrive. Thank you to the neonatal specialist at John Hunter Hospital for the donation of 6 infant incubators! Also his personal offer of support for the proposed new birth clinic in … Continue reading Hospital Equipment for Iraq