Christians and Yezidis returning to Iraq after fleeing ISIS face destroyed towns and severe economic challenges.
Shai Fund’s livelihoods project funds small and medium businesses, helping returning minorities rebuild their lives and communities through economic self-reliance and sustainability.
Support a better future for Iraqi minorities.
This project seeks to strengthen these minority communities economically to combat ongoing attempts to eradicate the minorities from the region. Most critical is a sense of solidarity to be transferred to minority communities that have suffered the genocide in Iraq in a practical way, which also provides them with hope and dignity. They feel forgotten and hopeless because their suffering (including their security needs) have been largely unaddressed economically.
Shai Fund is able to give people hope and the practical ability to rebuild their lives by reaching these communities with jobs and revitalization of the economy. This project uses businesses to help fight poverty, and in turn makes the returning minorities self-sustaining. It combats further displacement and emigration from Iraq as it anchors them back in their towns. Importantly, it combats attempts to exchange populations via colonization linked to population displacement, continued harassment, and forced sale of their lands and businesses due to the inability to survive the significant hurdles they are facing, following the genocide.
Your investment for as little as $50 will get a business up and running in the Nineveh plains. it will help families pay the bills, feed and educate their children and change the local economy after ISIS destroyed everything.