Help the children of Baghdad this summer

IraqChild Appeal
www.iraqiassociation.org
Freepost NAT 21599 London W6 9BR

Iraqi Association Charity No. 1101109

Appeal for moral and material support for the children of Baghdad from Dave Anderson MP

IraqChild project is a grassroots initiative to provide emergency and protection for children in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq. It is a non-sectarian project which was developed through a lengthy consultation process with concerned medical personnel in Baghdad and local non-governmental organisations. It also has the backing of British-Iraqis in Britain.

The project is urgently seeking £250,000 to provide emergency medical aid and back its Andalus Medical Clinic in Baghdad. The clinic provides free services to treat injured children and those who have been affected by violence.

The need for help is particularly acute in the sweltering summer heat which is compounded by electricity shortages and the lack of air conditioning.

Children are among the most vulnerable and defenceless of all, and desperately need basic assistance from the international community can provide. Mainly women and children are paying the cost of the violence.

The key activities are: Emergency work. Non-sectarian children's activities. Partnership projects with local NGOs. Children's protection awareness raising. Children's psychological support.

Many thousands of children have been displaced.

In poor districts of Baghdad, thousands of orphans fend for themselves.

Terrorists are using children as decoys for sadistic killings.

One in eight Iraqi children died of disease or violence before reaching their fifth birthday in 2005, according to Save the Children, and Iraq ranked last in the poverty league, because it had made the least progress toward improving child survival rates.

Children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists.

The trauma of violence, kidnappings, murder, and terrorist bombings requires immediate world attention.

Poverty and insecurity are the main causes of children's deteriorating diets.

Violence and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people are making it very difficult for monthly food rations to reach those families that need them most.

The project aims to provide help and assistance to children in Iraq, regardless of their religious, gender, political, ethnic or political backgrounds.

What a donation could do

£22 Can buy a child's clothing pack

£48 Can treat a child for diarrhoea and ear infection

£60 Can pay for a qualified nurse to care for 10 children every week

£75 Can provide meals to 20 orphaned children every week

£120 Can pay for Soccer team's kits of 12 children in one district

£170 Can pay for a child's treatment for a month

£250 Can buy ten boxes of feeding milk that contains all nutrients
necessary for the treatment of severely malnourished children

£650 Can pay for a medical doctor a month, to visit 10 families with
children every week

£1580 Can maintain running a children's clinic for a month to serve 8
children every day

"My mother tells me that I have to stop going outside, because on my
way to hospital I lost my left leg during a shooting incident. But it
is hard for me, knowing that I will never be able to play like other
children" Saif said.

The project will be managed by the British registered charity Iraqi Association. The evaluation for this programme will be tight. The management will evaluate with benchmarks established at the outset and opinion surveys as well as monitoring and statistics coupled with progress against agreed targets.

Please consider making a donation and alerting others to the importance of this credible and vital appeal.

Yours sincerely

Dave Anderson MP