Micro Projects for Women
Sewing Training Courses
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Women's Craft Cooperative
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Kid's School Supplies
suspended until the beginning
of the next school year
Beads Not Bombss
RAFFLE!
Win wonderful items
while helping our team
The CRP team was recently
in Amman, Jordan
Read the
 AMMAN REPORTS:
Children's Peace Project
Helping You Help Iraqi Refugees
PROJECTS in
AMMAN, JORDAN:
PROJECTS in IRAQ:
Winter Heating Project
Education for Children
With Special Needs
Food Rations for the Hungry
NEW IRAQIS SEND
Messages of Peace
KIDS WANT PEACE!
Photo-messages against war
Refugee
Children's
ART GALLERY
Samawa School Project
MISC:

Starting soon!
CRP Google Group Discussion
where you will have the
opportunity to communicate
with our Amman Team
members & with others who
are interested in this
humanitarian disaster.

Click
HERE to see our group






We hope you will join us!
The Collateral Repair Project
'...CRP represents the soul of the American people...'  MEDEA BENJAMIN
CODEPINK partners with the
Collateral Repair Project in Amman   
'My Beautiful Life'
photo album of one famiy's life
in pre-invasion Iraq
NEW
Iraqi refugees share
their thoughts & experiences
Fathers the world over take pride in their ability to nurture and provide for their family.  
They work hard to secure a bright and prosperous future for their children.

Imagine what it's like for a father who is unable to assure his children of an education, of new
clothes on a birthday, a picnic in the park, or even tomorrow's meal because he is forbidden
employment. Instead, he is forced to spend idle hours and days confined to a small apartment,
in fear of deportation and separation from his family.

Without employment, these fathers are unable to fulfill their valued, traditional role of family
bread earner. This, together with the insecurity of refugee life, poor living conditions, and
dwindling personal resources, are the harsh realities that rob many Iraqi refugee fathers
of their sense of purpose and worth and lead to the 89 % of clinical depression among Iraqi
refugees.            
                        



                click on any photo below to go to page of full text of their words & more photos
ON FATHERS DAY, WE HONORED IRAQI REFUGEE DADS
by focusing on their stories as told in their own words.
We've gathered their letters, along with photos of them with their children,
to offer you insight into the challenges they face as fathers unable to care for their families.  
Read their compelling stories & WATCH VIDEO  HERE
Micro Projects
for Iraqi Dads
"...we left Iraq and came to Jordan hoping that
we can pursue their treatment, but we found
that we are unable to pay for the treatment of
my children because the prices of cures and
treatment in Jordan are very high and
expensive..."
.HATIM - father of two
"...It is difficult  for me to ensure milk., diapers and
other important things that babies need it as it very
expensive. As well, I'm unable to ensure the daily
necessities because I have no work here... it is very
difficult to leave my babies without feeding and this is
my suffering...
FAHAD - father of 2 year old twins & a new baby
IRAQI FATHERS - in their own words...
"I am married and have 2 kids. One of them, 7 yrs
old and the other is 3 yrs old. I am paraplegic
from the middle down from early on...I am living
in exile and cannot provide for my kids and and I
am not up to the task..."
SA'AD - father of two
"...So I ask you,  why are we paying the price? Where is
humanity? I lost my father and we buried my daughter.
Where is humanity every passing night and every night we
sit and cry and scream.

Now I find my wife is speaking to herself all day long...
What do I do now? I am living on handouts. Please help me"
SANIN - father of 2 daughters, living, and 1 deceased
"...My father used to bring us everything and to play
with us and always asking us to study...
...After invasion of Iraq my father was shot by
machine gun by American forces..."
YOUSIF - 14 year old boy who lost his father as
a result of the US-led invasion of Iraq
"...the American troops with (the support of the) Iraqi
police assaulted my parents house... to arrest my other
youngest brothers.  The American soldiers kicked my
father with their boots... Two days later my father died
because of the bad injuries and heart attack..."
YAHIAY - father of three children
Micro Projects
for Iraqi Dads
click on photo to see the stories of more Iraqi refugee fathers in Amman
who need funding for micro-projects so they can  provide for their families
"...After invading Iraq the militias kidnapped my son
Ramm then I paid a lot of money to them in order to
release my son, the militias released my son but
they badly tortured him. So, I decided to take my
family and fled to Jordan,...we rented small
unhealthy house...

There is no any help from anybody, also, we haven't
get any financial assistance from any organization.
It is too shame for me and for my family that people
giving us food, clothes and necessaries.."
QABEL - father of two sons
Micro Projects you funded
in May
MISC:
You made a difference to Iraqi
students in Jordan!