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Posted On: 06/29/2019 2:02:14 PM
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‘It Takes a Village’: Taiwan Donates $500,000
to Yazidis for Islamic State Recovery
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Taiwan donated $500,000 to an initiative launched by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Islamic State’s attempted genocide of the Yazidi people of Iraq, on Friday to be used in helping Yazidis rebuild their homeland.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been “100 percent” defeated in Syria in March, nearly two years after its defeat in Iraq. Iraq’s northern Sinjar region, however, remains devastated, littered with terrorist traps and with little to no access to utilities like water and electricity – leaving much of the Yazidi population stranded in makeshift camps built to shelter them from ISIS’s assault.
Taiwan’s donation is meant to show that the island nation is “more than willing, ready, and able to help” recovery efforts in Iraq following the demise of the terrorist group’s caliphate. Representative of the Republic of China in the United States Stanley Kao told those congregated at an event at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Friday to grant Murad the funding. The money will go to her organization, Nadia’s Initiative, and its subsidiary the Sinjar Action Fund (SAF), which is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Yazidi heartland.
to Yazidis for Islamic State Recovery
< >
Taiwan donated $500,000 to an initiative launched by Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Islamic State’s attempted genocide of the Yazidi people of Iraq, on Friday to be used in helping Yazidis rebuild their homeland.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Islamic State (ISIS) had been “100 percent” defeated in Syria in March, nearly two years after its defeat in Iraq. Iraq’s northern Sinjar region, however, remains devastated, littered with terrorist traps and with little to no access to utilities like water and electricity – leaving much of the Yazidi population stranded in makeshift camps built to shelter them from ISIS’s assault.
Taiwan’s donation is meant to show that the island nation is “more than willing, ready, and able to help” recovery efforts in Iraq following the demise of the terrorist group’s caliphate. Representative of the Republic of China in the United States Stanley Kao told those congregated at an event at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Friday to grant Murad the funding. The money will go to her organization, Nadia’s Initiative, and its subsidiary the Sinjar Action Fund (SAF), which is dedicated to the reconstruction of the Yazidi heartland.
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