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The Bothoor Alkhayr Relief and Development Organization has alerted the difficult conditions that widows and orphans suffer from in Iraq, calling for the development of programs to employ them and lift them out of poverty. Official statistics conflict with statistics from international organizations regarding the numbers of widows and orphans in Iraq. The “UNICEF” organization concerned with family and childhood confirms that “ “There are about 3 million widows in Iraq, and more than 6 million orphans.” The International Red Cross sounded the alarm for widows in Iraq, stressing that “widows in Iraq are still struggling daily to provide food for their families.” The local organization indicated in a statement that “Bothoor Alkhayr  provides assistance to widows and orphans through small projects that give them the opportunity to obtain an income that enables them to live in dignity,” but at the same time it stressed that the assistance it provides is insufficient, calling on international organizations and the Iraqi government to “make every effort.” Greater efforts to lift widows and orphans out of poverty and destitution, especially since most of them struggle to provide daily food for their families.”

With every car bombing, or a suicide bomber with an explosive belt, or a bomb, or the like, or sectarian violence, the number of orphans and widows in Iraq rises. Every day and every hour, families wait for the announcement of the loss of a person, and the pace of suffering escalates in intensity. Millions of victims were left behind by terrorist operations and changed the course of many families after If the mother loses the father and brother, and it is no secret to anyone that widowhood extends to all aspects of social life, including poverty, destitution, family and social deterioration, and sometimes moral corruption, which exposes the family and children to loss. A happy life, a small family, children raised with family love, a husband with dreams, hopes and ambitions, and in an unexpected moment, life stops in this house, and the specter of sadness hangs over this family. Stories of widows increase day by day and children are the victims. It is suffering, needs and sadness. It has no end. There are women who possess an iron will who, under these circumstances, were able to write wonderful stories, despite the harshness of life, and they were able to live in their own shadow, not needing to live in the shadow of a man, and they did not fall prey to depression, but were determined to complete the journey and bear responsibility, and among them are those who are now role models. In the community

During the years of its giving, the organization prepared and implemented multiple programs that sought to reduce the scourges of poverty and unemployment, and provide aid and assistance to widows and orphans. It worked to ensure the continuity of these programs and their continuation every year to provide the best and most urgent services, while seeking to meet the needs of the various groups of society, in addition to caring for them. For hope and for the orphan and his sponsorship, by adopting productive projects for women in the local community, supporting their projects aimed at the stage that guarantees them a decent living, and contributing to supplementing their family’s income to achieve this stage, such as a sewing machine project and raising goats - etc.

As for the organization’s main field of work in caring for and caring for orphans, the organization has provided services to sponsor one thousand two hundred orphan children, and regular and seasonal assistance to more than two thousand orphan children, and it continues to care for this category of children, by distributing food parcels to families in need, and setting up tables for the Most Merciful. Providing Eid clothing, the school bag project, as well as cooperative projects that will generate income. Digging wells to secure water and encouraging agriculture around orphanages

The organization sensed the steady rise in the unemployment rate among young people, especially those between the ages of 15 and 18 years, and found that it is its national and humanitarian duty to provide the opportunity for these young people to qualify for a profession such as the profession of maintenance of hybrid and electric cars. They will join after their qualification and training. In the labor market. Hence, the organization’s management body decided to conduct vocational training projects for car maintenance, mobile phones, blacksmithing, carpentry, etc., while providing it with the latest necessary equipment and tools, and providing it with distinguished experts in this field. In order to secure part of the necessary funding, in addition to the organization’s contribution to the other part, comes this study, which summarizes the need. The work of an organization is based

Bothoor Alkhayr  for Relief and Development seeks to achieve a set of goals that it adopts, which are summarized as follows:

1. Sponsoring orphans
2. Providing aid to widowed women
3. Caring for people with special needs, including orphans and girls
4. Establishing a vocational training center to qualify widows and orphans to enter the labor market and provide psychological, health, and legal awareness.
5. Establishing productive projects for poor families to improve their standard of living
6. Attracting different groups of society to participate in implementing orphan care programs and ensuring their sponsorship
7. Community awareness, holding seminars, organizing public lectures, and providing the necessary training for young people in various fields to qualify them to enter the labor market.
8. Holding tables for the Most Gracious in the holy month of Ramadan and distributing charity packages to needy families
9. Conducting research and survey studies related to the care and sponsorship of orphans and widows throughout Iraq
10. Cooperating with studies and consulting centers in Iraqi universities to benefit from their studies on the labor market needs for trained, skilled workers and work to meet them by providing technical training and vocational rehabilitation programs for orphan children.