Kurdistan, Iraq
Our Work in Iraq
Bajed Kandala Yazidi IDP Camp
NHTH began building a partnership with the Bajed Kandala Yazidi internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Duhok, Iraq in 2016, two years after the camp was established following the Yazidi genocide carried out by ISIS.
NHTH helps to fund and supply the small health clinic there, which serves over 8,000 residents.
Nurses Heart to Heart’s ongoing partnership with Bajed Kandala Yazidi internally displaced persons camp also involves funding full nursing educations for students from the camp. These nurses, once qualified, return to the camp to provide healthcare in their community.
Nursing and Midwifery Development Centre
In 2023, Anita, NHTH’s founder and executive director, joined the board of the Nursing and Midwifery Development Centre, which was founded by one of NHTH’s key partners in Kurdistan, Eva Said. In 2024, the NMDC celebrated its official opening with the 1st International Nursing and Midwifery Conference. Anita gave one of the keynote presentations at the conference to over 300 attendees and taught 40 students in workshops on diabetes patient education and care at the newly opened Nursing and Midwifery Development Centre.
NHTH’s ongoing partnership with the Nursing and Midwifery Development Centre has included additional teaching trips as well as the provision of 202 scholarships for day-long continuing education intensives for nurses and midwives at the Centre.
