Irak: Italy donates funds for families displaced
Baghdad - Italy has donated funds to purchase winter essentials for families displaced from Tuz Khurmatu and now sheltering in Erbil. The Italian Consulate provided 31,000 dollars, said Sirwa Rasool, acting director of the Joint Crisis Centre (JCC) of the KRG’s Interior Ministry. Rasool said they were hoping to receive more aid in the future, especially for medical supplies. Ismail Abdul Azia, a worker for the Barzani Charity Foundation helping to distribute the aid, explained to Rudaw English that they were giving cookers, heaters, winter jackets, and carpets for 100 families. “Part of our plan here today is to monitor the distribution of the aid as well as speak to families and find out on what the basis the first 100 were chosen to receive aid,” said Mustafa Ma’ad, head of GIS Systems for the JCC.
This aid was the first assistance the 100 families had received since fleeing their homes in mid-October, Ma’ad added. There are approximately 86,000 individuals displaced from Tuz Khurmatu and Kirkuk, according to JCC figures. They fled the disputed areas when Iraqi forces and Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias took over the area.