Playgrounds: a piece of childhood
Playgrounds didn’t exist so far in the villages of Northern Iraq. Just as in other places the communities of Sheik…
Finished Projects
The Women’s Legal Assistance Organization (WOLA)
In spring 2008 WOLA (Women’s Legal Assistance) was founded. It monitors jurisdiction and law implementation and offers individual legal assistance. Initially…
The Afrin School: Where Syrian Refugees Children Can Learn Again
For years hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugee children have no longer been able to go to school. UNICEF describes…
Supporting Girls Soccer Teams in Iraqi-Kurdistan and Syria
More and more girls in Kurdish Northern Iraq wish to play football. As unusual as it may seem at first…
Fighting Illiteracy
For northern Iraq, the Ba’athist rule of the country meant persecution, exile and war. Generations had grown up under these…
Women Centres
Focusing on long-term empowerment of women and the development of a democratic civil society in Iraq, WADI supports several independent…
Mobile Women-Led Aid Teams
Since 2003, WADI supports women-led mobile teams who operate in remote areas of the regions of Mosul, Arbil, Suleymaniyah, Halabja,…
