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  • Project News, Refugees in Greece, Updates

    Self organized education for refugees in Lesvos

  • Project News, Project Reports, Updates

    Wadi Newsletter Winter 2022: Keep Kurdistan Green

  • Environment, Project News, Updates

    A Grassroot Approch for Environmentalism: The “Green City”-Campaign in Halabja

  • Refugees, Schools, Updates

    Primary and Secondary Education for Syrian Refugees

  • Project News, Stop FGM Kurdistan, Updates

    Living with FGM: “A wound I will never forget”

  • Project News, Updates

    Safeguarding the Old Town of Koya

  • Project News, Updates, Women

    Martynka: Support for Self Organising Ukrainian Women

  • Project News, Updates, Women

    Supporting Economic opportunities for Women in remote Areas

  • Playbusses, Project News, Youth/Children

    Wadi’s Playbusses – Assisted Mobile Playgrounds

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About us

WADI has been supporting a variety of programs and projects for self-help and strengthening human and women’s rights in the Middle East for over 30 years. These include literacy programs, education and training for women, the fight against domestic violence, violence against children and campaigns against female genital mutilation. Our goal is always to strengthen self-organization, this is because we believe in giving people the tools they need to work on solving the problems of their communities. This point of view orients our approach to our projects for and with refugees, the protection of the environment, and the strengthening of free media.

What others say about our work during the last three decades:

“Wadi is one of the most enterprising and inventive NGOs we’ve encountered in Iraq. Wadi’s work is impressively varied, but also shrewdly focused.” (The Register)

“Wadi is a non-governmental organization that has a strong and an obvious effect in our society in finding solutions for women’s problems including support for domestic violence, awareness of the dangers of honor killing and advocacy for women’s rights.” (Development Now)

“With the work of our Member Wadi, in 2022 Halabja and Garmyan were declared free of FGM after fifteen years of intense campaigning!” (End FGM)

“Iraqi Kurds have lived through countless ups and downs in the past 30 years but WADI has encouraged a steady stream of Kurds of both sexes to learn the the joys and tears of participating in civil society.” (J. Randal)

Updates
‘It was a grave mistake not to topple Saddam Hussein in 1991’

‘It was a grave mistake not to topple Saddam Hussein in 1991’

20 years ago, the US and its allies, the “Coalition of the Willing”, overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein and…

  • Training in Kurdistan on Fake News and Cyberbullying
  • Interview: Earthquake in Syria and Turkey – How to help responsible
  • FGM in Iraq: More research needed after succesful campaign in Kurdistan led to ban of harmful practice
  • Self organized education for refugees in Lesvos
  • Please join the protest: Martynka was blocked by Meta
31 years of WADI

Wadi was founded in the fall of 1991 by various organizations and individuals.

The original idea has been to create an umbrella organization to coordinate and bundle the activities of various groups and people active in Iraq and Kurdistan.

Read more about our History

Our Partners

A list of our current and previous international partners and donors and of our local partners.

We work on site and some of our Iraqi employees have been with us for over two decades. We pursue a clear goal: Over time, employees will become partners and projects will develop into their own local and independent organizations:


We call this our “From Project to Partner” approch and we are glad with our help some new thriving local civil society organizations were founded.

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  • ADWI: Empowerment for Women and Children in Iraq

    ADWI: Empowerment for Women and Children in Iraq

  • Our Partners in Lesvos: The Moria White Helmets

    Our Partners in Lesvos: The Moria White Helmets

  • ‘Martynka’, a helpline for Ukrainian Women fleeing the war

    ‘Martynka’, a helpline for Ukrainian Women fleeing the war

  • “Dange Nwe” – First Community Radio in Northern Iraq

    “Dange Nwe” – First Community Radio in Northern Iraq

  • Jinda Centre: Assistance for Yazidi Refugees

    Jinda Centre: Assistance for Yazidi Refugees

  • Wadi’s Media Partner: KirkukNow

    Wadi’s Media Partner: KirkukNow

Please support our work

We rely on private donations to keep our projects running. Donations please either via:

Or our Account: Postbank Frankfurt
IBAN: DE43500100600612305602
BIC: PBNKDEFF

My Tweets
Project Reports and Finances

Wadi-Newsletter, Winter 2022

Wadi-Newsletter, Summer 2022

Wadi Annual Activity Report for 2021

Wadi Newsletter, Winter 2021

Audited Financial Reports

Project News
Self organized education for refugees in Lesvos

Self organized education for refugees in Lesvos

Our partners in Lesvos, the Moria White Helmets, are the only refugee self organisation offering non-formal education for children and…

  • ADWI: Empowerment for Women and Children in Iraq
  • Upcycling of Clothes in Halabja
  • Wadi Newsletter Winter 2022: Keep Kurdistan Green
  • #31 Years of Wadi – Looking back: First FGM-Free Village in Kurdistan
  • A ‘Thank You’ from our Ukrainian Partner ‘Martynka’
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Contact:

WADI e. V.
Herborner Straße 62
D-60439 Frankfurt/M
Tel: +49 69 57002440, Email: info@wadinet.de

Wadi Office Iraq
Baxtiari 113, Alley 7, House 8
Suleymaniah; Kurdistan, Iraq
Tel.: 00964-7701-522184
Email: wadisul@yahoo.com

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IBAN: DE43500100600612305602
BIC: PBNKDEFF

 

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