Iraq

For over 20 years, World Compassion has empowered the local church in Iraq through compassion-evangelism efforts, helping women, children, and families rebuild their lives and experience the hope of Jesus in an otherwise hopeless place.

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Lives Transformed

Women living in refugee camps are receiving  vital skills training that gives them a way to support their families and fills them with new hope for their future.

13,845

People Served

Our mobile medical clinic team is currently reaching between 400 and 700 people each month with basic medical care, medicine, and the Gospel message.

100,000+

Meals Provided

Over the past two decades, we have provided hundreds of thousands of meals, containers of clothes, skills training, medical care, small business grants, and other aid.

Refugee relief

The people of Iraq have lived in constant fear and instability for years – experiencing war, the terror of ISIS, and threats from Iran.

World Compassion has worked in Iraq since 2002 working closely with local pastors in Iraq who are eager to bring relief to refugees and help to those who don’t know where to turn. We have provided hundreds of thousands of meals, containers of clothes and other aid over the years empowering the local church to meet the physical needs of people while also introducing them to Jesus.

We continue to provide food and other basic items to refugee families in need.

Sewing project for widows

Through this program we are restoring hope and dignity in the lives of women and children who have been forgotten and left behind. Widows and young women receive training and supplies to sew clothing for their family and create items they can sell to provide for their children.

Iraqi Christians run the program, providing a way for these women to start a new life and experience the love of God through the local church.

Planting churches

Starting new churches in Iraq provides people the community of believers they need to grow in their relationship with God and flourish in their life. Through local churches the foundation is laid for more ministry outreach to become possible. You can help reach Iraq by supporting our refugee relief or church planting programs.
The people of Iraq have lived in constant fear and instability for years – experiencing war, the terror of ISIS, and threats from Iran.

Over the past two decades, we have provided hundreds of thousands of meals, containers of clothes, skills training, medical care, small business grants, and other aid, empowering the local church to meet the physical needs of people while also introducing them to Jesus.

Each outreach in Iraq is an important step to seeing the church stabilize and thrive in the Middle East.

Vocational School

Our vocational school serves refugee women in northern Iraq who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of ISIS and nearly a decade later are still stuck living in refugee camps with very little hope for their future.

Through these skill training programs, women are learning in-demand skills like sewing and salon care to help them rebuild their lives and discover a pathway forward in life, giving themselves and their families hope for the future.

As ladies attend these programs, they experience the love of Christ and have conversations with their instructors – members of a nearby local church – who actively share the truth of the Gospel one-on-one.

Small Business Grants

We provide small business grants to Christian families in the Kurdistan region of Iraq – believers who lost their businesses because of ISIS.

Instead of just “giving them a fish,” we teach these families “how to fish” by empowering them in a sustainable way. With their businesses reopened, providing income, and employing people from the community, this is helping the Gospel message to stay alive and rooted in an otherwise Muslim part of Iraq.

Mobile Medical Clinic

By partnering with a local church, World Compassion empowers a mobile medical clinic that travels to refugee camps and small villages in the region to provide basic medical care to families who otherwise wouldn’t have access. Our mobile medical team is currently reaching between 400 and 700 people each month.

The outreach team consists of a doctor, a nurse, and ministry volunteers that offer prayer to every patient. Over the past few years, open doors for relationship and evangelism have led to new house church groups actively meeting throughout the region.

You can help women, children, and families in Iraq experience hope again by meeting their physical and spiritual needs and keeping the Gospel alive in a Muslim region.

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