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What is it like to be a child in Iraq?
Everyone worldwide may know what is like to be a child in Iraq. The children
of Iraq (account for half of Iraq’s population of 29 million people) are heirs to
conflicts, dictatorship, war, sanctions, and internal strife and terrorism. You
can read the UNICEF report to get further information.
The main questions are: How to change a life of an Iraqi child? How to
help an Iraqi child? And How to realize objectives and goals?.
It is quite simple and easy to talk about the current situation, but what is
really needed is to see things real on the ground. Hundreds of civil society
organization are now in Iraq, most of them talk about Democracy, Human
rights, no violence, women rights and equality, but unfortunately very few did
something on the ground to help Iraqis and their children.
What is really needed in now is a real credible work, to see the problem and
to act helping overcoming it.
El-Sharifa Fatima Children's Library is a very special library within the
Children's Central Hospital in Baghdad - Iraq. It is very special because it is
the first of its kind in an Iraqi hospital.
The Library serves underprivileged Iraqi children suffering from chronic
diseases by giving them the spirit of hope.
El-Sharifa Fatima Children's Library offers a variety of children's programs:
teaching, reading, drawing, handcrafts, entertainment, competitions, etc.
Most importantly it gives hope to sick children with cancer, renal failure, and
psychological diseases.
Unlike other Arabic countries, we found it difficult to get children books and
stories in Iraq, as well as children TV programs and movies. We hope that
through this library we will be able to encourage publishers and TV stations
in Iraq to focus to a certain extent on children's literature and programs.
With your help and support we hope to give Iraqi children hope in a time of
crisis. We hope that this library will be in every Children's hospital in Iraq.
HRH Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite, BSc MSc MD PhD
Executive Director
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