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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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