After six long years of relentless suffering and with diminishing belief that anyone cares , it's easy for Iraqi
refugees to feel that we have forgotten them.

When we deliver your assistance to families, we let them know there many of us who do care about them, who
share their sorrow and who have not forgotten them. They are heartened to know they have caring friends
half a world away. They ask us to tell you of their gratitude and that they, too, wish to be friends.

Collateral Repair Project has always considered that an important part of our mission is to facilitate mutually
respectful relationships between Iraqis and citizens of other countries - especially those of us whose
countries participate in the occupying coalition. Now we offer a way to do this

When you contribute $20 or more, we will hand-deliver your personal messages of friendship
and peace - along with your photos - when we bring your assistance to refugee families
In exchange, you will receive their photos and personal messages
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PROJECT
CANCELED

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MILK for CHILDREN
Milk should be a right, not a privilege. But most Iraqi children don't get any milk because their
families can't afftord it. $10 will provide a child with 3 glasses of milk a day for one month.

AMMAN OFFICE AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER After months of
searching for affordable living quarters in Amman, we were able to find a small
furnished apartment in a poor but safe neighborhood where many Iraqi refugees
reside. But the apartment was soon too small to serve as both living space and CRP
office space. When the adjacent furnished apartment became available, our dream of
having a CRP Resource center finally became within reach.

MESSAGE FROM AMMAN “Collateral Damage” (a euphemism if ever there was one) doesn’t stop with the coalition’s last bomb, the
draw-down of US troops or the so-called open elections in Iraq. It keeps on “giving” to its victims.

This week we witnessed the on-going effects when we visited three Iraqi refugee families struggling to cope with its damage in Amman,
Jordan. Their days are filled with a constant search for affordable housing, medical treatment and just about anything needed to eke out a
bare existence. They invariably show us their thick but orderly files of papers, documents and medical reports from various government and
Non-governmental agencies and medical providers they have visited, often many times, in fruitless attempts to get help as they are shuttled
back and forth from one agency to another. When the power bill jumps from $28 a month to nearly $200, they, as refugees, have no
recourse to complain or even ask for an explanation. When their UNHCR cash assistance is inexplicably stopped or delayed they must wait
for bureaucracy to wend its slow, interminable path to ferret out the reason and, hopefully, when resumed, include missed payments.

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Meanwhile the rent goes unpaid, the tab at the grocery accumulates until it’s finally cut-off and the
refrigerator and cupboards display bare shelves. Prescriptions for medications for diabetes, high-
blood pressure (rampant among Iraqi refugees) go unfilled, there's no money to buy fuel to keep
drafty homes warm on these cold winter nights; children go without meals.

One man tell us of his “heart clot” and his sky-rocketing electric bill. He pulls his medical report out of
his file that delineates all the symptoms of PTSD: depression -- feelings of worthlessness, anger,
panic attacks, insomnia. His sister shows us her prescription for an anti-depressant.

A widow and her seven children have gone all day, well into the late evening, without food because
their cash assistance stopped, due to a bureaucratic glitch when she recently moved to more
affordable housing. The house is cold, there is no water heater, no washing machine for the family of
8. She washes all clothes by hand but it is painful due to shrapnel left in her hands and arm from an
American bomb on their house in Iraq. This bomb killed her 8 month old baby and the twin of one of
her surviving children. The large shard of shrapnel in her left arm is a constant reminder of that tragic
loss.

A pregnant Iraqi woman, facing an up-coming caesarian birth that will cost close to $2,000, is
declined help from agency after agency, because she is married to a Palestinian. Her husband is
refused help because he is married to an Iraqi. ” Their three children, one with Down’s Syndrome, do
not qualify for UNHCR cash assistance because they are legally considered Palestinian. She and all
three children have been diagnosed with calcium and vitamin deficiency. They survive on what her
husband can earn part-time as a fill-in taxi driver and her cash assistance of $106 a month. When she
appeals for help she is told “just thank God you receive anything. If you complain, you will lose even
that.”

Similar stories are told time and after. Every agency, from UNHCR to Collateral Repair Project, from
highest realms of officialdom to grassroots, suffers from dwindling funds while needs snowball into an
avalanche. With the slogging on of the global economic crisis and public attention focused on
Afghanistan and the disaster in Haiti, Iraqi refugees continue to cope with damages that have been
all but forgotten.

Daily we are forced to make heart-breaking decisions as we listen to families detail a litany of needs,
invariably for their children. Emergency Assistance and Milk for Kids has supplanted out Micro-
projects, because of both funding cut-backs and because this is where the needs are most urgent.

EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
All too often an unforeseen expense can wreak havoc on an already insufficient budget, forcing
many to choose between paying the rent or buying a needed medication, whether to pay the
electric bill or buy food. CRP helps when there's no other way.

Your help is urgently needed
When there's no other hope, there's YOU

Our work is a pittance in comparison to the overwhelming needs, but that makes it all the more vital as collateral damage keeps on taking from
its unseen, unheard victims.

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COATS for KIDS

Thanks to you, nearly 300 children will receive
new, warm coats this winter.

We are no longer accepting contributions for
this project this year.

Thanks to all who contributed to keeping
children warm

PHOTOS OF KIDS WITH THEIR NEW COATS COMING SOON!

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