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Bothoor ALkhaer organization for Relief and Development (BAORD)

Reasons: education, health, food security, protection, livelihoods, shelter and non-food items, water and sanitation, environment, people with disabilities, widows and orphans

Mission: is an Iraqi organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes due to conflict and persecution. It works to provide the poorest children, girls, women, IDPs and refugees in Iraq with what should be a birthright for every child: freedom, health, shelter, education, food security, livelihoods, environment, people with disabilities, widows and orphans.

Results since inception

Since 2004, more than 17,000,000 million beneficiaries have been served through our programs, awareness and education regarding health and nutrition, children's rights, food security programs, economic empowerment, women's rights, shelter, environment and education.

Special highlights include:

Emergency Livelihood :
Bothoor ALkhaer organization for Relief and Development
works on studying, developing and implementing development projects with the aim of providing job opportunities for needy families and contributing, and to spin the wheel of economic development in the liberated areas through small projects and early recovery programs, and the gradual transition of society from relief and consumption to development and production.
Livelihood Economic Empowerment Program
The Economic Empowerment Program seeks to provide direct support to people to increase income and living standards. It is a multidimensional social process that helps people take control of their lives. It is a practice that relies on power in societies for the mutual benefit of individuals. It empowers and supports people to reach their goals by providing training, curricula and opportunities.
Number of beneficiaries: 11,7850

Food Security Program
Food Security and Livelihoods Program The Food Security and Livelihoods Program focused on projects aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty and meeting urgent food needs. Implementation of projects to promote economic and social development. It also aims to help secure the resources needed to generate income, as well as provide sustainable livelihoods for current and future generations and enhance their well-being.
Areas of Expertise:
1. Sustainable agriculture and food security: Increasing beneficiary options through an economic focus on strategic crops, livestock assets, and social and environmental points through the design, implementation and distribution of agricultural inputs, irrigation systems, rehabilitation and provision of extension services. In addition, Watan works on formulating, activating and operating Relevant local institutions to resume their duties after appropriate handover at the end of their long-term programmes.

2. Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods: Mitigating new risks and challenges arising from conflict, responding through emergency food distributions, and promoting positive emergency coping strategies.

3. Financial Services: Contribute to self-reliance, strengthening the capacity of governments, local communities and regional organizations by integrating capacity development through income-generating activities ranging from small grants and small business management training to restarting businesses.

Program history
The first project was started in 2014 by the Food Security Program, which resulted in the distribution of 3750 agricultural materials of seeds and fertilizers to each farmer in Diyala governorate in Muqdadiya district, Baladruz district, Khalis district and Baquba district to help 22,500 beneficiaries with the support and funding of the FAO. Thanks to the successful implementation and the urgent needs, “Bedour Al Khair for Relief and Development” worked in the same year to support livestock breeders and provide 375,000 tons of concentrated feed in Diyala Governorate in cooperation with the International Organization of FAO. The program has expanded the focus to include more sustainable long-term results, from the cultivation of strategic crops, agricultural tools and agricultural services to support livestock.
Education:
Through education, we create opportunities and a brighter future for thousands of underprivileged children and youth. We do this through the work of Seeds of Goodness Organization for Relief and Development through the Education Program to implement a number of educational projects in Iraq with the aim of raising the quality of education, increasing access to education for children, and supporting teachers and administrative cadres alike. The services provided in the Education in Seeds of Good program include the following:

Securing the winter needs of schools, such as heaters and fuel
Establishing small training centers that develop the skills of young people and enable them to move into the labor market
Training courses for teachers and students, such as: education in emergency situations, awareness of the remnants of war, and raising the level of security and safety in schools in accordance with international standards.
Providing schools with security and safety needs such as fire extinguishers and first aid kits
- Implementation of many activities related to child protection such as awareness campaigns, back to school and recreational activities
Number of beneficiaries: 11000

Shelter and non-food items
With the increase in cases of displacement and its recurrence at a high rate; The needs of the affected people multiplied to search for an alternative shelter to save their lives and their children and give them a decent life. This requires securing the means of sleep, clothing, heating tools and other basic non-food living materials in each shelter, as this assistance is provided to the displaced and affected non-displaced alike.
Rehabilitation homes In 2020, we achieved great results in rehabilitating 260 homes for displaced families returning to their areas of origin and re-housing them, and educating them on health, sanitation and good nutrition. To ensure sustainability within the stability programs implemented by our organization.
Number of beneficiaries: 22000
the health:
In the health sector, we provide our services at its three levels, primary health care and secondary health care, in addition to working to improve the situation of the injured and children in particular, and the sick in general. Our projects cover most of the affected areas in the liberated areas

Number of beneficiaries: 16700
health program

It works to rehabilitate hospitals and health centers, reduce deaths and the spread of diseases, and provides sustainable support to medical facilities, as well as responding to emergency situations by covering the rehabilitation of hospitals and centers affected by war and raising awareness about Covid-19.

Program mission

Contribute to building a stable health system in Iraq by providing health-related humanitarian assistance,
Focusing on the most vulnerable people, as well as strengthening coordination and health information systems, to improve the effectiveness of the life-saving health response.

Water and sanitation
In cases of disasters and wars, the search for and access to water sources becomes important

Clean health is the greatest concern for the needy, and in the absence of clear programs to draw water and search for valid sources, it may lead to an exacerbation of suffering through the spread of diseases, whether caused by a lack of clean water, or caused by polluted water or even resulting from water gathering due to Poor drainage, and in this regard, we support water and sanitation projects by drilling wells, providing pumps and purification devices, and building a water tanks distribution station based on a well-studied field assessment as needed.

Number of beneficiaries: 13600

Water and Sanitation Program

The WASH program works to provide clean water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene in order to maintain a healthy life and reduce the transmission of waterborne diseases.
Environmental sanitation issues where temporary field latrines are provided, and to develop and promote prevention of ill health through education.
Personal hygiene requirements and waste removal are some of the basic services provided to beneficiaries.
Program mission:

Providing assistance to vulnerable families to ensure access to safe water in a clean environment with improved sanitation and hygiene with interventions
sustainable and stable.

Areas of Expertise:

Water and Sanitation Interventions: Provide smart interventions to ensure sustainable access to and treatment of water and sanitation facilities through improved resource management.
Creating a clean and healthy environment: Collaborating with local authorities in the effective management of solid waste and the distribution of hygiene kits to keep families, communities and schools clean.
Enhancing Hygiene Awareness Levels: Focusing on health awareness in daily life practices, with innovative ideas to activate effective awareness sessions on an ongoing basis.
Adequate emergency preparedness: having a plan to ensure the best emergency response with appropriate interventions.
people with disabilities
Long time of internal strife which hindered the economic and social development of the country to a great extent. Persons with Disabilities (PwD) have been disproportionately affected by the conflict, violence and economic hardship affecting Iraq. Persons with disabilities face multiple and intersecting barriers to their meaningful community participation in Iraq. The Government of Iraq, the United Nations, NGOs and civil society have recognized this and made efforts to address the multiple and intersecting barriers faced by persons with disabilities. Unfortunately, these efforts have been greatly hampered by a lack of resources, insufficient institutional will, and the prevalent use of the philanthropic model, rather than a rights-based approach, for disability inclusion and mainstreaming. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) – which Iraq ratified in 2013 – uses a human rights approach to disability, referring to persons with disabilities as including “those with long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments. Various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis. Our organization has implemented more than 10 projects that help disabled women within programs of economic empowerment, psychological support and awareness of their rights
Number of beneficiaries 4980
widows and orphans
The Bothoor ALkhaer organization for Relief and Development
has warned of the difficult conditions suffered by widows and orphans in Iraq, calling for the development of programs to employ them and lift them out of poverty. Official statistics conflict with the statistics of international organizations regarding the number of widows and orphans in Iraq. About 3 million widows in Iraq, and more than 6 million orphans. The International Red Cross has sounded the alarm regarding the widows in Iraq, stressing that "widows in Iraq are still struggling daily to provide food for their families." The local organization indicated in a statement that “Seeds of Goodness provides assistance to widows and orphans through small projects that allow them to obtain an income that enables them to live in dignity,” but at the same time stressed that the aid it provides is insufficient, calling on international organizations and the Iraqi government to “make Greater efforts to lift widows and orphans out of poverty and destitution, especially since most of them struggle to provide daily food for their families.”
With every detonation of a car bomb or suicide bomber with an explosive belt or a device and the like, or sectarian violence, the number of orphans and widows in Iraq rises, every day and every hour families wait for the announcement of the loss of a person, and the pace of suffering escalates in severity, millions of victims left by terrorist operations and changed the course of many families after If a mother loses a father and a brother, it is no secret to anyone that widowhood extends to all aspects of social life, including poverty, destitution, family and social deterioration, and sometimes moral corruption, which exposes the family and children to loss. A happy life, a small family, children brought up on family love, a husband with dreams, hopes and ambitions, and in an unexpected moment, life stops in this house, and the ghost of sadness hangs over this family. Stories of widows are increasing day by day and children are the victims, it is suffering, needs and sadness It has no end. There are women with an iron will who, under these circumstances, were able to write wonderful stories, despite the cruelty of life, and were able to live in its own shadow, not needing to live in the shadow of a man, and not sitting prey to depression, but rather determined to complete the journey and take responsibility, and among them are those who are now role models In the community..

During the years of its giving, the organization prepared and implemented multiple programs that sought to reduce the scourge of poverty and unemployment, and provide aid and assistance to widows and orphans. For hope and orphans and their sponsorship, by adopting productive projects for women in the local community, supporting their projects aimed at the stage that guarantees them a decent living, and contributing to supplementing the income of their families to achieve this stage, such as the project of sewing machines and raising goats — etc.

As for the organization’s main field of work in the care and sponsorship of orphans, the organization has provided services to ensure one thousand two hundred orphan children, and regular and seasonal assistance to more than two thousand orphan children, and it continues to care for this category of children, from distributing food parcels to needy families, and setting up tables for the Most Merciful. Providing Eid clothing, the school bag project, as well as cooperative projects that will generate income. And digging wells to secure water and encourage agriculture around orphan homes.

The organization sensed the steady rise in the unemployment rate among young people, especially those between the ages of (15) and (18) years, and found that it is its national and humanitarian duty to provide the opportunity for these young people to qualify for a profession such as the profession of maintenance of electric and hybrid cars. They engage after rehabilitation and training in the labor market. Hence, the organization’s management body decided to conduct vocational training projects for the maintenance of cars, mobiles, blacksmithing, carpentry, etc… in it, providing him with the latest equipment and necessary tools, and providing him with distinguished experts in this field. In order to secure part of the necessary funding, in addition to the organization's contribution to the other part, comes this study, which summarizes the need.