Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen/Wings of Help continues to expand its humanitarian engagement in Northern Iraq

From Romania to Greece, from Kurdistan and Mozambique to Puerto Rico: Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen/Wings of Help (LOG/WoH) is consistently expanding its “Education is Future (BIZ/EIF)” learning program and has now established computer classes for young people in ten countries, which are now equipped with a total of over 1,000 computers.As part of this program, a school in Kurdistan, which cares for over 400 orphans, has recently received a dozen additional computers.LOG/WoH has been active in northern Iraq for many years with aid programs that benefit refugee camps with thousands of people, particularly members of the Yazidi ethnic group, who were forced to flee their homeland due to the genocide of ISIS terror a good ten years ago.In large tent cities such as Hassan Sham and Khanke, not far from the capital Erbil, there are now schools run and managed by the humanitarian Kurdish Barzani Foundation or the organization Our Bridge.As long-standing partners, they oversee the introduction and further development of the “Education is Future” learning program. The refugee tent cities in Kurdistan, home to well over a million migrants, now maintain teaching links with university faculties in the city of Erbil, which has a population of over one million, and with the American University in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, for the benefit of young pupils and students.

Neehad Salim Qoja, former mayor of Erbil and now Middle East commissioner of LOG/WoH, says: “Thanks to LOG/WoH’s commitment, young people in this country are finding a connection to the future. We see this long-term measure as an exemplary, contemporary form of humanitarian aid and are very grateful for it.” LOG/WoH President Frank Franke: “Along with all the efforts to provide the population with the necessities of life, education remains an important challenge in opening new horizons for people’s future lives. Therefore, there is still a vast field ahead of us, to which LOG/WoH will increasingly devote itself.”