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Down load the KSC Annual Report 2007 !             On the 4th of May 2008, The Kirkuk Office of Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) completed a project named “Testing and Providing Medical Glasses for Kirkuk Children”. From March 2nd to May 4th 2008, 6000 children had their eyes tested. As a result of the testing, medical glasses were made and distributed to 300 children.         The KSC Health Sector is presently conducting a four-week training workshop in Speech Therapy for teachers and physio-/psycho-socio therapists who work with children having speech and hearing disorders. The workshop, entitled Working with Children Having Speech / Hearing Disorders, started on April 13, 2008.     From 13 to 23 of April 2008, The physio- and psycho-social therapists of the Children Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) in Sulaimany, Iraqi Kurdistan, have started to use drumming to assist their little patients, who are suffering from the partial paralysis of upper limbs, in reclaiming the ability to move their arms and hands.

In co-operation with Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) and the Heath Department of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), on the 12th-15th of April 2008, Dr. Falih Nasir provided surgery for four children with scoliosis.read more