Iraq: providing emotional support to people who fled Mosul

1 min readNov 25, 2016

Iraqi Red Crescent staff hold drawing groups with children in Khazer Camp, east of Mosul. Iraqi Red Crescent Society provides psychosocial support in camps for displaced people, and put extra emphasis on helping children at risk. (Photo: Joe Cropp/IFRC)

Iraqi Red Crescent Society psychosocial volunteer Avin Jamail plays with children who have recently escaped from Mosul with their families. Twenty psychosocial volunteers from the IRCS Dohuk branch travel to the relief camps around the city, providing much-needed emotional support to displaced families. Almost half the people in the camps are children. Many have not been to school for two years (Photo: Joe Cropp / IFRC).

Iraqi Red Crescent staff hold drawing groups with children in Khazer Camp, east of Mosul. Iraqi Red Crescent Society provides psychosocial support in camps for displaced people, and put extra emphasis on helping children at risk. (Photo: Joe Cropp/IFRC)

Iraqi Red Crescent Society psychosocial volunteer Avin Jamail talks with a family who recently escaped Mosul to the safety of a relief camp near Dohuk. Twenty psychosocial volunteers from the IRCS Dohuk branch travel to the relief camps around the city, providing much needed emotional support to displaced families. “It’s hard to spend time in all the camps, to talk to everyone, but we are doing the best we can,” Avin says. (Photo: Joe Cropp/IFRC)

Iraqi Red Crescent Society psychosocial volunteer Mahdia Masa plays with children who have recently escaped from Mosul with their families. Twenty psychosocial volunteers from the IRCS Dohuk branch travel to the relief camps around the city, providing much needed emotional support to displaced families. Almost half the people in the camps are children. Many have not been to school for two years. “These people have been through dreadful experiences; they need as much support as we can give,” says 29-year-old Mahdia (Photo: Joe Cropp / IFRC)

Iraq, Dohuk: Buthina talks with an Iraqi Red Crescent psychosocial volunteer in one of the camps near Dohuk, where thousands of families have sort safety after fleeing Mosul. The mother escaped Mosul with her husband, three children and 14 others in her brother’s car. The family was forced to leave all their belongings behind when they fled. “We know that we are now safe,” she says. “Those possessions are not important.” (Photo: Joe Cropp/IFRC)

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