Clothes have already begun to be delivered to us as part of our drive to collect clothing or the refugees and IDPs in Ankawa. In addition, Radley College this weekend launched a clothing drive across the school to provide clothes for refugees to stay warm as the cold weather sets in. Collection will continue over the next few days, but we wanted to add our thanks in advance for their help in getting this campaign underway. #school #ankawa #winter

The Ankawa Foundation wants to offer its thoughts and prayers to those in Erbil today following the terrorist attack. The city and its surrounding area is already having to deal with so much with the internal displacement of over 1.8 million people following the advancement of Daesh. Intolerance and sectarian division are sadly a large part of this society, and it will take hard work and endeavor to try to heal these divisions as the communities head into the future. In our s

The winter is now fully underway in Erbil in Iraq. And more is needed to help those desperatley trying to keep their children warm and dry. We are launcing our winter campaign in the next few days. In the interim - read this excellent piece in the Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11231873/Iraq-winter-The-Kurdish-mothers-struggling-to-keep-their-families-alive.html Photo: Sofia Barbarani (from the Telegraph article) #ankawa #photo #winter

The last few weeks have seen much change in and around the towns supporting the internally displaced people from the ISIS advance earlier this year. Most crucially, the warm sunny weather has ended and ceaseless downpours, high winds and lightning have become the norm for weather as the autumn sets in hard. This has turned people's attention to winter. Whilst the large organisations are acting - there are many tents going up across the sites with thermal insulation - there ar