The Engineering Office at KSC works with building houses and homes for poor and homeless people, and is one of the most important parts of our organization. It started out as a project to rebuild hospitals, schools, homes and whole villages in

the torn and war shattered region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Through this project KSC could better ensure the living conditions for Kurdish families and children. In the long run it also improved their health, security and education.   The Engineering Office was during that time working on contract for the UN, and the income they got was used to fund other projects within KSC. That way the organisation could ensure the development of various projects within education, health and child protection. Around the year of 2002 the cooperation with the UN ended, as a result of the latter pulling out of Iraq at the beginning of the war.   The Engineering Office is now working with funds from the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), still rebuilding towns and villages, homes and houses, for homeless and poor families.   Parts of the engineering activities are organised through “self-building projects”, i.e. KSC provides the families with all the building material, as well as carries out the construction that demands skilled labor, such as concrete work, electrical work and plumbing, the rest is performed by the families themselves. KSC also supervise and consult the construction, but the main part of the work is done by the beneficiaries.