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 Kurdistan Save The Children's latest news
 
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 in 80 schools. As a result of the testing, medical glasses were made and distributed to 300 children.
The project, implemented in two phases, was completed within 45 days. It was conducted in cooperation with the Clinics of the General Health Directorate and the General Directorate of Education of Kirkuk.
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Health
 
Training for Working with Children Having Speech / Hearing Disorders
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. Its main purpose is to train teachers and physio-/psycho therapists to assist children with hearing impairment in using lip-reading as an alternative means of communication.
The participants include four teachers from the Hiwa Institute for children with disabilities, eleven teachers of primary schools that enroll children with disabilities among other students, and two physio-/psycho-socio therapists from the Children Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) supported by KSC.
The course has been designed by Ms. Lana Aldawdi, lecturer at the College of the Human Sciences, University of Sulaimany, Sulaimany, Iraq, whose Master’s thesis deals with the topic. Ms. Lana Aldawdi conducts the practical training in lip-reading techniques. Among the professors and lecturers engaged in teaching are Professor Shawbo Abdullah, the College of the Human Sciences, University of Sulaimany; Dr. Izzaddin Fahreddin, Naqshbendi, the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad; and Dr. Yusef Chalabi, the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad.
Upon the end of the course on May 8, a small pilot Speech Therapy Centre is to be opened at the Hiwa Institute for children with speech disabilities.
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Using Drumming to Reclaim the Ability of Movement
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.
The idea to use drumming in physio/psycho-social therapy came from the Drum Circles Leadership Facilitation Training Workshop, held in November 15-20, 2007, in Sulaimany, Iraqi Kurdistan. Two CRC physio- and psycho-social therapists, Raz Hama Gharib Ali and Nigar Kamal Mohammed, took part in that workshop, co-sponsored by Kurdistan Save the Children and ACDI VOCA Iraqi Community Action Group.
Since that time, Raz and Nigar have used the drum circles techniques with their patients several times and developed a Hands Function Assessment Form, which painstakingly records the impact of drumming on the patients’ physical abilities to use hands and arms for daily activities, as well as a Special Form that records the impact of drumming on their psychological state and the capacity for interaction.
In the present drum circle, there have been three little patients engaged, aged 3, 3 and half, and 4 year old respectively, diagnosed with Hemiparesis and Erb's Palsy. By the end of the two-week training, both the therapists and the children’s mothers have noticed a startling change in the improved ability of the little patients to move their arms and hands. Mothers are encouraged to continue the training at home, using the techniques that they have learned during the two-week drum circle session.
Next drum circle session for five new patients is to start on May 25, 2008.
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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
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 who is a specialist scoliosis doctor, provided surgery for four children with scoliosis. It is worth mentioning that Dr. Warzer and the Orthopedic Department of Sulaimaniya Teaching Hospital participated in treating these children.
It is decided that Dr. Falih will visit Kurdistan in the future to treat more children.
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Education
  
On March 27-28, 2008, on occasion of Nawroz, the Children’s Culture Centres (Kaziwas) of Bazian, Sara and Chwarta held small parties and exhibitions for their Kaziwa children to present their activities and spent wonderful time in the event.
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On March, 7th, 2008, for the first time Sulaimaniya Drum Group had a collective drum playing activity in the Sulaimaniya Youth Activity Centre. 27 children from Sara and Sarshaqam Kaziwa centres, Shaheed Jabar Exemplary School, Sulaimaniya Children’s Music Band and Sulaimaniya Youth Activity Centre took part in the activity. These children started training from the beginning of January 2008 in supervision of trainer teacher Taimur Imamqli.
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Child protection
* In the last two weeks, in co-operation with an inspection committee, we paid 137 visits (78 of the visits were at night and the other 50 were during the daytime) to workplaces, companies, factories, guesthouses and bars to determine all the violations committed against working children. As a result, five children were avoided from dangerous work and their work owners were warned by the committee.
** The Juvenile Police interrogated parents of 18 children whom they sent their children to work while they were under the age of 15.
*** Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) made evaluations for the condition of 18 working children and 6 of them are now being supported by KSC financially.
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(KSC-KCF)'s 16th anniversary
September 16, 2007 is the 16th anniversary of the establishment of Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC). For the past 16 years, we have been continuously supporting Kurdish and Iraqi children to give them a brighter future, and children now have a greater need for our help than ever before. Iraq is passing through the process of reconstruction, therefore; raising healthy children for a democratic country should be the first priority.
In this year, we have placed a great emphasis on decreasing the number of working children in co-operation with the government, civil society organizations, and the media. At the beginning of our campaign, we determined the number of the children working by means of a survey, then brought the issue to the attention of the government with the aim of working to resolve the problem.
In addition to combating child labour, we have been increasingly active in the fields of education, child protection, health, and sponsorship. We are using our 16th anniversary as an opportunity to publish our work and to ask for more help, both from the government and from charitable organizations operating inside and outside Iraq, to allow us to offer further support to children and to enable us to expand our area of operation to the whole of Iraq as the security situation improves.
Helping KSC helps all the Kurdish and Iraqi children.
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