Our projects - "In Action for your Rights!"
On June 1, 2024, AID project 012970-01-3 "In Action for your Rights! Protecting the Christian minority and creating a culture of human rights in Iraq," funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). This is the third project that the John Paul II Foundation is carrying out in Iraq on behalf of Christians, drawing on a fund allocated by the Italian government for the protection of the freedom of Christian minorities in crisis contexts. The initiative takes place in the country's two most important cities: Baghdad, the political and administrative capital, and Basra, the economic capital. In Baghdad, 20 women have already completed a vocational training course as hairdressers, while 13 workers from the Rehabilitation Center of "Caritas Iraq" have followed a path to retrain their skills supported by Italian experts. A total of 400 students and teachers were involved in a training cycle in 4...