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Activities in Iraq managed by The Salvation Army between August 2003 and June 2006

Education and Children

Forty-six kindergartens, primary or secondary schools were built or refurbished under various funding sources. The need arose not through damage caused by military action but largely as a result of the long-term deprivation and persecution suffered by the people of Maysan. Virtually all school buildings were in various, often dangerous, states of disrepair. Additionally, there was some renovation work necessary following the looting and public disturbances that occurred after the fall of Saddam. All the early education support was carried out in cooperation with the Education Director for Maysan, an inspirational Iraqi.

Facilites were provided for vocational training, principally in sewing and computer skills, sometimes as additions to schools but also through independent training centres. Additionally, there was a focus on children’s facilities, particularly playgrounds. These were requested by communities so that children’s development might not be further impeded.

The Salvation Army also operated a series of adult education courses, targeting a significant element of illiteracy within a number of communities.

All construction work throughout the three years was managed by team members and carried out under the supervision of The Salvation Army’s Iraqi engineers and through properly organised tender processes that resulted in the physical work being done by Iraqi construction companies, with any profits boosting the ailing Iraqi economy.

From April 2004 to March 2006, work was remotely managed by ex-pat teams operating from Kuwait, who were able to meet regularly with the Iraqi team on the border between Iraq and Kuwait and occasionally travel into Iraq to inspect the work. Each of the team leaders responsible for Kuwait-based management were people who had experience of working within Iraq itself and so were known to the Iraqi staff.

EDUCATION AND CHILDREN

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Schools – 18 Maysan Province CPA

Schools – 9 Maysan Province CIMIC

Schools – rebuilding of 4 previously mud-built schools Maysan Province CIMIC

Schools – 2 plus furniture for 1 Maysan Province RISE

Schools – 13 Maysan and Wassit Provinces UNHCR

Sewing schools and computer centres – 10 Maysan Province New Zealand Government

Sewing school Al Rafia CIMIC

Sewing school and computer centre Bint Al Huda – Maysan Province CIMIC

Sewing schools – 13 Maysan and Wassit Province UNHCR

Supply schools with computer equipment 22 schools in Maysan Province CIMIC/TSA

3-month adult education in 10 schools including 100 teachers and computer equipment 8 schools in Amarah, 1 in Al Mujer Al Kabir and 1 in Kalat Salih CPA

Set-up of 5 school playgrounds Al Aruba, Al Amarah, Al Zanabke and Al Khala Primary Schools and Al Arube/Amarah Orphanage, Amarah – Maysan Province ARC

Refurbishment of 2 community playgrounds Al Beroba and Al Baladya – Maysan Province CIMIC

Community playground Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province UNHCR

Health

Alongside the health centre construction and rehabilitation projects there was health support in the form of medicine provision, upgrading of existing facilities and the much-needed repair of damaged and faulty equipment.

In addition to this structural support, there was a variety of projects that looked closely at the health needs of the various communities. These were devised to provide communities with targeted health education.

HEALTH

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

TB clinic upgrade Al Amarah CIMIC

Abo Khasaf Clinic Al Rafia– Maysan Province CIMIC/TSA

Repair of hospital equipment Al Amarah and Al Zahrawi Hospitals – Maysan Province TSA

Al Rafia Clinic Al Rafia district – Maysan Province CIMIC

6-month supply of children’s drugs Al Sader Hospital – Maysan Province TSA

Repairs to leprosy house Maysan Province CIMIC

4 health centres Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa and Al Jifjafae – Maysan Province UNHCR

1 health centre Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Primary health education for 400 female family heads and 400 children Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province and Al Hertha – Basrah Province IOM

Birth attendant training for 10 women in rural locations Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province and Al Hertha – Basrah Province IOM

430 rural returnees given Leishmaniasis recognition and education – 194 people treated for the disease Sheikh Saad and Badrah Districts – Wassit Province IOM

Water and Sanitation

Water provision and sanitation were areas of constant need. The Salvation Army was involved in the installation or repair of a variety of facilities, ranging from the repair of sewage pumping equipment through general sanitation provision to the simple provision of water pumping stations for communities that had no water at all. In the later stages we were also responsible for providing two communities with processed water that took undrinkable, salt-laden water and produced potable water, enjoyed by nearly 40,000 people.

WATER AND SANITATION

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Water supply to returnees’ houses Al Khala – Maysan Province TSA

Repair to pumping station Al Nahar Sa’ad – Maysan Province CIMIC

Construction of housing for water pumping station Al Machbass – Maysan Province CPA

Water pumping station Kumait – Maysan Province CIMIC

Sanitation project Al Rafai – Maysan Province CIMIC

Water supply project Al Musharra – Maysan Province CIMIC

7 water pumping stations with piped water distribution to water tanks Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Attia and Al Marayan – Maysan Province UNHCR

Motorised bore-hole and RO station with piped water distribution to water tanks Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province UNHCR

Motorised bore-hole and RO station Badrah Town – Wassit Province IOM

Shelter

From early 2003, large numbers of exiled Iraqis began returning to their former homes, only to find themselves dispossessed by the previous regime. This led to thousands of families squatting in public buildings, especially schools, and living in very overcrowded conditions with extended families.

With considerable financial support from UNHCR, The Salvation Army was responsible for providing housing for nearly 700 families in homes that ranged from traditional marshland dwellings to three-roomed family houses. All these homes, whatever their construction, were provided with some form of water supply.

SHELTER

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

40 marshland dwellings Al Khala – Maysan Province TSA

85 traditional dwellings Al Issa Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

95 traditional dwellings Al Jifjafa Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

70 traditional dwellings Al Qumas Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

95 traditional dwellings Al Mozan Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

75 traditional dwellings Al Kharba Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

80 traditional dwellings Al Marayan Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

1 brick dwelling Maysan Province UNHCR

152 brick dwellings Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province UNHCR

Agriculture

Agriculture forms an essential element of life for many Iraqis. The Salvation Army, with qualified individual partners, carried out a range of agriculture interventions from the creation of date farms to support dispossessed families, through to the provision of community-based livestock facilities. There was also provision of livestock to the returning families housed in the shelter provided under UNHCR funding.

In addition, with financial support from the United Kingdom Territory, we were able to supply 120 disadvantaged rural widows with a sheep each as a means of providing basics for themselves and often for children as well. Each recipient was given training in the care of their valuable new assets (see photo below).

AGRICULTURE

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Date farm and seed nursery Al Khalah – Maysan Province CPA

4 livestock dipping stations Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa and Al Jifjafa – Maysan Province CIMIC

Supply of 864 poultry houses with 8,760 laying poultry (including instruction in keeping them) Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Attia and Al Marayan – Maysan Province and Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Supply of 88 goats and sheep with pens (including instruction in keeping them) Al Betera, Al Kharba, Al Mozan and Al Jifjafa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Date palm planting assistance to 40 families Al Mozan Village – Maysan Province UNHCR

Supply of a sheep to 120 widows Various villages in Maysan and Wassit Provinces TSA – UKT

Mobile livestock dipping station, pen and cattle crush Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Humanitarian and Distribution

What are not listed in this table (the figures relate to the community rehabilitation programme that ran from August 2003 to June 2006) but are referred to in other articles are the Gas Distribution Project (see photo) and the World Food Programme support project. These two projects, which operated in the early, dangerous and volatile days following the fall of the Saddam regime were significant for the impact of The Salvation Army on the people of Iraq. In some cases, they were also instrumental in preparing the way for what was to follow.

HUMANITARIAN AND DISTRIBUTION

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Non-food item (NFI) distribution to 10,000 families Maysan Province CIMIC

Distribution of 2,117 children’s outfits for Eid Maysan Province Croydon Citadel Corps

Distribution of NFIs to 185 families Maysan Province CIMIC

NFI distribution to 524 following flooding Al Khair area – Maysan Province UNHCR

Power

An extremely challenging request that was faced part-way through the completion of a 152-family village The Salvation Army created in Wassit Province was that there should be an electrical supply to all of the new houses as well as to the school, health centre, shops and workshops, water supply and reverse osmosis station. In order to provide a permanent solution an appropriate transformer was installed to take a power supply from the national grid. Poles and power lines were then provided to connect up each of the newly-built structures.

POWER

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Power supply from national grid to village – 152 houses, schools, clinic, RO station and shops Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province UNHCR

Training

Extensive training was provided in a wide variety of subjects, from basic agriculture through commercial farming to the high-level, intensive training of Iraqi NGOs and government officials in Kuwait on the international humanitarian standards and the creation of internationally acceptable humanitarian organisations.

TRAINING

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Agricultural Business Training for 777 farmers Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Betera and Al Marayan – Maysan Province and Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Language instruction in Arabic for 76 returnees Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province UNHCR

Civil society capacity building for 75 Iraqis from Iraqi NGOs and ministries Kuwait City DfID

Roll-out civil society capacity building for 925 Iraqis from Iraqi NGOs and ministries Baghdad, Amarah, Basrah, Kut and Nassariya DfID

Job Creation

With there being many long-term unemployed people, there was a desperate need to provide some form of job for much of the population of Maysan Province. From significant funds provided initially by the Coalition Provisional Authority and latterly by UNDP, The Salvation Army was able to bring short-term employment to nearly 3,000 men and women. A number were receiving their first proper wages for a long while and some were being paid for the first time ever.

JOB CREATION

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Employment of 1,059 people for 78 days’ labour Amarah – Maysan Province CPA

Employment of 1,048 people for 52 days’ labour Maysan Province Maysan Province CPA

Employment of 816 people for 3 months – to clean schools, repair furniture and administer project Amarah – Maysan Province UNDP

Community Centres

These community centres were all located outside the main urban areas, but were specifiacally created within disadvantaged and ill-equipped communities in order that they would be better prepared and equipped to include the large numbers of returnees.

COMMUNITY CENTRES

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Community centre Al Aruba – Maysan Province CPA

Community centre Al Musharra – Maysan Province CPA

3 community centres Al Kumait, Al Mijer and Al Qalit Salih – Maysan Province UNHCR

Commercial/Livelihood

As part of a specific attempt to provide an essential kick-start to the Iraqi economy, The Salvation Army became involved in an extensive British Military-funded programme to provide a number of communities with commercial facilities. Many of these were related to agriculture in some way but also included some construction facilities.
Also, significant numbers of new dwellings for ‘returnees’ were built alongside agriculture-based shops and workshops which were community facilities and helped with job creation.

COMMERCIAL / LIVELIHOOD

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Agriculture training centre, warehouse and office block Al Khala – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse Al Mujer and Al Kabir – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse and offices Al Moumanyna – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse and community workshop Al Musharra – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse, training centre, office and workshop Al Rafia – Maysan Province CIMIC

Workshop construction and repair Al Salem – Maysan Province CIMIC

2 warehouses and roadway Ali Al Gharbi – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse and workshop Kumait – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse and workshop Qalat Salah – Maysan Province CIMIC

Agriculture warehouse Sa’ayed Ahmaed Al Rafaie – Maysan Province CIMIC

5 farm shops complete with para-vet training for those selected to operate them Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa and Al Shuhadaa – Maysan and Wassit Provinces UNHCR

1 general-purpose shop Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province 2 UK churches

Environmental

Many of these projects – drain clearance, road improvement, street lighting and sport encouraging schemes – came about through the requests that only arose because of close relationships with the Iraqi people and their council representatives.

COMMERCIAL / LIVELIHOOD

TYPE OF ACTIVITY LOCATIONS FUNDER

Drain clearance scheme 1 Sector 30, Amarah – Maysan Province CIMIC

Drain clearance scheme 2 The New Flats, Industrial Flats and Al Karrar Sectors, Amarah – Maysan Province CIMIC

Drain clearance scheme 3 Al Khala – Maysan Province CIMIC

Refurbishment of Amarah War Cemetery Amarah – Maysan Province British Military

Access roads levelled to 6 schools Maysan Province CIMIC

Football/basketball facility provided Al Mujer Al Kabir – Maysan Province CIMIC

Cleaning of main sewers and drainage Amarah Town Centre – Maysan Province CPA

Access roadway and fence to warehouse Ali Al Sharqi – Maysan Province CIMIC

Access roadway and fence to warehouse Nhaar Saad – Maysan Province CIMIC

Provision of street lighting to the city Sectors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7, Amarah – Maysan Province CIMIC

Key to Funding Abbreviations

CPA Coalition Provisional Authority (name given to the USA ‘temporary government’ responsible for managing the country immediately after the war)

CIMIC Civil/Military Coordination. Funds dispersed by coalition military (British in Maysan)

RISE USAID funds provided specifically for education programmes

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

ARC American Refugee Committee (an NGO)

IOM International Organisation for Migration

DfID British Government International Aid funding, routed through the Department for International Development and managed by the British Council

TSA Funds contributed by The Salvation Army and raised through international appeals

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EDUCATION AND CHILDREN
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Schools – 18	Maysan Province	CPA
Schools – 9	Maysan Province	CIMIC
Schools – rebuilding of 4 previously mud-built schools	Maysan Province	CIMIC
Schools – 2 plus furniture for 1	Maysan Province	RISE
Schools – 13	Maysan and Wassit Provinces	UNHCR
Sewing schools and computer centres – 10	Maysan Province	New Zealand Government
Sewing school	Al Rafia	CIMIC
Sewing school and computer centre	Bint Al Huda – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Sewing schools – 13	Maysan and Wassit Province	UNHCR
Supply schools with computer equipment	22 schools in Maysan Province	CIMIC/TSA
3-month adult education in 10 schools including 100 teachers and computer equipment	8 schools in Amarah, 1 in Al Mujer Al Kabir and 1 in Kalat Salih	CPA
Set-up of 5 school playgrounds	Al Aruba, Al Amarah, Al Zanabke and Al Khala Primary Schools and Al Arube/Amarah Orphanage, Amarah – Maysan Province	ARC
Refurbishment of 2 community playgrounds	Al Beroba and Al Baladya – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Community playground	Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province	UNHCR

HEALTH
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
TB clinic upgrade	Al Amarah	CIMIC
Abo Khasaf Clinic	Al Rafia– Maysan Province	CIMIC/TSA
Repair of hospital equipment	Al Amarah and Al Zahrawi Hospitals – Maysan Province	TSA
Al Rafia Clinic	Al Rafia district – Maysan Province	CIMIC
6-month supply of children’s drugs	Al Sader Hospital – Maysan Province	TSA
Repairs to leprosy house	Maysan Province	CIMIC
4 health centres	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa and Al Jifjafae – Maysan Province	UNHCR
1 health centre	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Primary health education for 400 female family heads and 400 children	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province and Al Hertha – Basrah Province	IOM
Birth attendant training for 10 women in rural locations	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province and Al Hertha – Basrah Province	IOM
430 rural returnees given Leishmaniasis recognition and education – 194 people treated for the disease	Sheikh Saad and Badrah Districts – Wassit Province	IOM

WATER AND SANITATION
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Water supply to returnees’ houses	Al Khala – Maysan Province	TSA
Repair to pumping station	Al Nahar Sa’ad – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Construction of housing for water pumping station	Al Machbass – Maysan Province	CPA
Water pumping station	Kumait – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Sanitation project	Al Rafai – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Water supply project	Al Musharra – Maysan Province	CIMIC
7 water pumping stations with piped water distribution to water tanks	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Attia and Al Marayan – Maysan Province	UNHCR
Motorised bore-hole and RO station with piped water distribution to water tanks	Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Motorised bore-hole and RO station	Badrah Town – Wassit Province	IOM

SHELTER
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
40 marshland dwellings	Al Khala – Maysan Province	TSA
85 traditional dwellings	Al Issa Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
95 traditional dwellings	Al Jifjafa Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
70 traditional dwellings	Al Qumas Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
95 traditional dwellings	Al Mozan Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
75 traditional dwellings	Al Kharba Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
80 traditional dwellings	Al Marayan Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
1 brick dwelling	Maysan Province	UNHCR
152 brick dwellings	Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province	UNHCR

AGRICULTURE
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Date farm and seed nursery	Al Khalah – Maysan Province	CPA
4 livestock dipping stations	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa and Al Jifjafa – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Supply of 864 poultry houses with 8,760 laying poultry (including instruction in keeping them)	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Attia and Al Marayan – Maysan Province and Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Supply of 88 goats and sheep with pens (including instruction in keeping them)	Al Betera, Al Kharba, Al Mozan and Al Jifjafa – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Date palm planting assistance to 40 families	Al Mozan Village – Maysan Province	UNHCR
Supply of a sheep to 120 widows	Various villages in Maysan and Wassit Provinces	TSA – UKT
Mobile livestock dipping station, pen and cattle crush	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	UNHCR

HUMANITARIAN AND DISTRIBUTION
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Non-food item (NFI) distribution to 10,000 families	Maysan Province	CIMIC
Distribution of 2,117 children’s outfits for Eid	Maysan Province	Croydon Citadel Corps
Distribution of NFIs to 185 families	Maysan Province	CIMIC
NFI distribution to 524 following flooding	Al Khair area – Maysan Province	UNHCR

POWER
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Power supply from national grid to village – 152 houses, schools, clinic, RO station and shops	Al Shuhadaa Village – Wassit Province	UNHCR

TRAINING
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Agricultural Business Training for 777 farmers	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa, Al Mozan, Al Betera and Al Marayan – Maysan Province and Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Language instruction in Arabic for 76 returnees	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	UNHCR
Civil society capacity building for 75 Iraqis from Iraqi NGOs and ministries	Kuwait City	DfID
Roll-out civil society capacity building for 925 Iraqis from Iraqi NGOs and ministries	Baghdad, Amarah, Basrah, Kut and Nassariya	DfID

JOB CREATION
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Employment of 1,059 people for 78 days’ labour	Amarah – Maysan Province	CPA
Employment of 1,048 people for 52 days’ labour Maysan Province	Maysan Province	CPA
Employment of 816 people for 3 months – to clean schools, repair furniture and administer project	Amarah – Maysan Province	UNDP

COMMUNITY CENTRES
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Community centre	Al Aruba – Maysan Province	CPA
Community centre	Al Musharra – Maysan Province	CPA
3 community centres	Al Kumait, Al Mijer and Al Qalit Salih – Maysan Province	UNHCR

COMMERCIAL / LIVELIHOOD
TYPE OF ACTIVITY	LOCATIONS	FUNDER
Agriculture training centre, warehouse and office block	Al Khala – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse	Al Mujer and Al Kabir – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse and offices	Al Moumanyna – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse and community workshop	Al Musharra – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse, training centre, office and workshop	Al Rafia – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Workshop construction and repair	Al Salem – Maysan Province	CIMIC
2 warehouses and roadway	Ali Al Gharbi – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse and workshop	Kumait – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse and workshop	Qalat Salah – Maysan Province	CIMIC
Agriculture warehouse	Sa’ayed Ahmaed Al Rafaie – Maysan Province	CIMIC
5 farm shops complete with para-vet training for those selected to operate them	Al Qumas, Al Kharba, Al Issa, Al Jifjafa and Al Shuhadaa – Maysan and Wassit Provinces	UNHCR
1 general-purpose shop	Al Shuhadaa – Wassit Province	2 UK churches

Key to Funding Abbreviations
CPA	Coalition Provisional Authority (name given to the USA ‘temporary government’ responsible for managing the country immediately after the war)
CIMIC	Civil/Military Coordination. Funds dispersed by coalition military (British in Maysan)
RISE	USAID funds provided specifically for education programmes
UNHCR	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
ARC	American Refugee Committee (an NGO)
IOM	International Organisation for Migration
DfID	British Government International Aid funding, routed through the Department for International Development and managed by the British Council
TSA	Funds contributed by The Salvation Army and raised through international appeals