EUAM Iraq mission members make a donation to the Free Yezidi Foundation

24-10-2021

The donation of 3000 USD, collected by EUAM Iraq mission members during charity run events, was received by the FYF board member Alexander Lourie at the EUAM Iraq compound in Baghdad on 21 October 2021.

Joining the handover ceremony via Teams from the Duhok province in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, FYF Country Director Hewan Omar expressed her gratitude on behalf of the organisation and gave an overview of their activities.

- We are very thankful for EUAM Iraq’s kind donation which will enable us to continue our activities to support the Yezidi communities, especially women and girls. That includes developing our enterprise and training centre or the women’s centre, amongst others, which have proved to be invaluable tools for driving our cause.

Anne Meskanen, EUAM Iraq Deputy Head of Mission expressed her appreciation for the work carried out by the foundation and communicated her hope that in the future, different sports disciplines could also be a part of the foundation’s impressive toolbox to alleviate the suffering of Yezidi women and girls.

The donation was collected over five charity run events organised by EUAM Iraq from May 2020 to August 2021. Coordinated by the Mission’s Welfare committee, these events are a tool for team building, promoting a healthy lifestyle as well as serving, very importantly, a charitable cause. Out of several organisations that were identified as possible donation recipients, EUAM Iraq mission members collectively voted for the Free Yezidi Foundation to being most worthy of that cause.

EUAM Iraq continues to support ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq in the framework of the Mission's civil society strategy, part of the European Union’s comprehensive approach to security sector reform.