Latest Updates from USAID's Work Advancing Religious Freedom and Pluralism

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Jordanian Women Economically Advance Making Cheese

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It’s mid afternoon in Amman, Jordan and the USAID-supported Habibi Valtiberina Association facility in Saint Joseph Parish Church is bustling in preparation for the day’s business. The Italian organization runs the Saint Joseph Pizza Project, a program that provides culinary and food service training to Iraqi Christians who fled ISIS persecution in northern Iraq. The trainees practice their skills in a full service restaurant situated in the church complex. The kitchen is full of energy as a group of chefs chop colorful vegetables, mix pizza dough, and lay fresh pastas out to dry.

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Building a new future in three days

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In June 2014, ISIS took over Mosul, beginning the most dreadful years of Asmaa’s life. Asmaa, then a junior studying Business Administration at the University of Mosul, was forced to put her studies on hold.

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New Beginnings: Finding Hope and Modern Skills Through Photography and Design

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During portrait practice week, Noor explored taking a self-portrait through a broken mirror.

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Noor, a high school student living in the town of Bartella in the Ninewa Plains, had her world upended when the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) invaded her hometown of Bartella in August 2014 and forced her and her family to flee. For the first time, Noor found herself living in an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp with her family alongside thousands of strangers. She was homeless, not in school, separated from her friends, and sometimes without enough money to get food and other basics.

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Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian Youth Help Others Find Their Voice in New USAID Program

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Zainab was 14-years-old and living in Syria when she dropped out of school to get married, and live with her husband and his family.

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