Report / Hassan Hamza

One of the major initiatives carried out by the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in collaboration with its partners in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is the Livelihoods Project, which attempts to improve the social and economic conditions in the targeted host communities while offering beneficiary families steady sources of income that can assist them through hard times financially.

“The Iraqi Red Crescent teams have begun field work to carry out the livelihoods project in the Zomiz complex, Sinjar district centre, Tal Afar district, and Rabia sub-district,” said the media coordinator for the Society in the Nineveh Governorate.

He added that the project is supported by the German Red Cross and seeks to mitigate the prevalence of poverty and unemployment by helping poor and needy families by providing them with job opportunities and income that will meet their living requirements.

He clarified “The project’s duties included participants cleaning and collecting waste in residential neighbourhoods and public streets, and in state institutions and schools, along with watering trees and levelling the soil to create gardens as rest areas, as well as distributing cleaning bags in all places covered by the cleaning.”

In order to include as many target groups as possible, he noted that the livelihoods project will be conducted in all of the Nineveh Governorate’s districts and sub-districts.”