Iraq Appeal launch
Iraq blog | 18th October 2007
The humanitarian crisis in Iraq is escalating and it's hitting children hardest. Their childhoods are being stripped away from them. Many children have lost a parent or have to flee the communities that have supported them and so are forced to survive and help their families by working on the streets, undertaking hazardous work.
As the last remaining international child protection agency in southern Iraq War Child is determined to continue its work helping children and their families. To do this we urgently need your help to raise £1.5 million
War Child works with children living and working on the streets. Children who have been forced into prostitution and drugs or who make a living by collecting and selling rubbish or unexploded mines. Children who feel that there is no escape and no future.
We provide practical training and grants to children and their families so they can set up businesses and find employment. With the money they make they can afford access to food, healthcare and education. With your help we can expand our programme and reach even more children.
