Baghdad - Citizens' Advice And Care Centre (Sadr City branch).Iraq
After the arrival of news about the existence of an area inhabited mostly by widows, orphans, abandoned women and impoverished families, the Citizens' Advice And Care Centre (Sadr City branch) made a reconnaissance visit to familiarise themselves with the conditions of these families and view from close at hand their problems, needs and suffering. It was found that many of the orphans who had lost parents due to the father's death or the mother's remarriage were being raised by an aunt or a grandmother.
Therefore, they expressed their great joy at seeing the Centre's staff visiting them, enquiring about their conditions and listening to their grievances, especially as nobody had previously performed such a reconnaissance tour.
As a result of that visit, the Centre's staff registered nine families suffering from very difficult living conditions and in urgent need of help. For example, there is a woman there who cannot even afford the price of milk and nappies for her only daughter after her husband left her to marry someone else, never even enquiring about her since. There are also widows with orphans all of whom are at school and needing many school prerequisites, as well as household necessities too numerous to detail here.
You will find below a list with the names of orphans and needy families:
1. Sarah Qahatan Jawad / Sijad Qahatan Jawad (photo 4)
(fatherless orphans abandoned by their mother after remarrying)
The father died in 2004. Two years afterwards the mother remarried and left the children at their grandfather's house. 13 family members.
Grandfather is retired; grandmother works at Education Ministry for salary of 250,000 Dinars a month.
2. Haider Kadham Mahana / Ali Kadham Mahana (photo3)
(both afflicted with elephantitis)
Mother is widow. Two of her sons are afflicted with congenital elephantitis. Due to this disease Ali is blind, mentally backward and asthmatic. Haider has high blood pressure and is blind. The mother is elderly.
3. Nawal Mansour Mawsa (photo 5)
(widow)
Her husband died in 2008 as the result of a terrorist incident. Eight
children: 5 daughters and 3 sons. Oldest boy is in fifth class at preparatory school. Youngest daughter born in 2008 after her father's death.
4. Sakanah Taban (photo 1)
(widow)
Her husband died two years ago due to cancer. She has applied for a pension but has not yet received one. The house she lives in is her property (half plot) for which her husband before his death took out a loan of 70 million Dinars to demolish the house and rebuild it again.
But after his death his pension was severed. She is now obliged to pay monthly instalments of 600,000 Dinars to repay the debt.
5. Hana' Ismael Mansour
(widow)
Widow of ten years. Her husband died due to cerebral and coronary thrombosis. She has three children. The oldest daughter is afflicted with an hormonal illness. House is half plot.
6. Sana' Zaidan Khalif (photo 2)
(impoverished)
The husband suffers from fractures due to the falling of heavy goods from a car onto him while he was portering. He is now unable to work and has two small children.
7. Akhlas Sawadi Jacob
(abandoned by husband)
Mother and daughter live with her family after her husband abandoned her. Her parents who are blind and paralysed lie in bed and have no provider.
8. Raiyadh Sabah Shanin / Kadham Sabah Shanin
(orphans)
The father died in 2005 and two years later the mother remarried leaving her children at their grandfather's house. The uncle's wife was entrusted with raising them. She works as a baker to contribute to the household expenses.
9. Ashwaq Abd Al-Hassan Muhassan (photo 6)
(widow)
Her husband died in a terrorist incident leaving her with 3 small children. The eldest is a girl in the fifth class at primary school.
She lives with her brother-in-law's family in one room.
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