Photo credit: Debbi Morello/USAID
Caption: A Medical Assistant and member of the WADI mobile women's health/social work team examines a woman in the village of Tewala. USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives provided a $17,850 grant to WADI Association for Crisis Assistance and Development Cooperation. The grant provides operating support to maintain two mobile women's health/ social work teams to operate in remote villages around As Sulaymaniyah (As Sulaymaniyah Governorate) Kirkuk (At Tamim Governorate), Arbil (Arbil Governorate) and Mosul. These teams provide both critical health services to over 2000 women, abuse intervention and social work assistance. Perhaps most importantly, the access to these teams creates an opportunity to address other issues of women's empowerment and trust building between often segregated ethnic and religious groups. Though largely Kurdish, the teams do include an Arab volunteer and to work in Arab communities.
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