My report for the first six months of 2019

I started mu activities with offering workshops and presenting seminars in schools about the people with special needs. Most of the students did know about people with special needs. During the seminars, I was trying to convey the idea about people with special needs through telling my life story as one. " I was thinking that a person with special needs is not able to be active in the community like others or he\she is supposed to spend their times at home on a wheelchair doing nothing, but when I heard Mr. Sarko's story, it was so encouraging to learn that someone with special needs is such an active person and God has given him such energy, so we need to be sure if ,God forbid, some day one of us lost a part of our body, we shouldn't collapse, we need to be indomitable and we must strive for the sake of the people with special needs, we don't need to pity them, we need to respect them. It was an extraordinary story and I hope it will be a source inspiration for others" one of the participants in one of the seminars.

The weekly meeting at the office. Families and their kids with special needs attend the meeting, they receive useful advice about taking care of their kids more properly and how to be more efficient in doing that. They also receive information about physiotherapy. I also deliver a speech aiming to give the participants some medical information so that the 2 families make use of it in taking care of their kids with special needs. I listen to the parents to know about their problems and promise them not to refrain from doing whatever I can to help them.

Distributing some special wheelchairs on some kids with special needs who needed it most after repairing them by the chair of the organization. Also distributing some new ones that were provided by some righteous people, the total number of the chairs was 40 wheelchairs. We were also able to provide crutches, diapers and beds for those who suffer from brain paralysis. 

Providing and distributing The Box of Love on the kids with special needs for the eleventh year on, we were able to provide 100 boxes for the kids.

Paying visits to those kids who have benefited from our project in order to know about them more and serving them more in every possible way . 

I was given a warm welcome by the governor of Halabja as I visited him in his office on 28\3\2019. The aim of my visit was to serve the people with special needs more, the governor promised to provide as much help as they can. 

On 31\3\2019, I had a meeting with the director of health in Halabja Mr. Azad. I asked him to try as hard as they can to provide an Echo device for the hospital as there are some 250 kids with cardiovascular in the city, he joyfully informed me that it has been provided and after necessary steps it will be available for the patients. Worthy to mention, there are a huge number of cardiovascular patients in the province of Halabja and we have our own statistics of them.

After 17 years of working as a volunteer in the field of serving our kids, I was given the honorable reward by the International Parliament for Security and Peace\ Iraqi office on 25\4\2019. The chair of the office asked me to be in cooperation with them to serve the children with special needs and, on my part, I sincerely promised to be there for those who are with special needs.

We managed to provide some gifts for the kids with special needs. The main target of our activity was those kids who were born on 16\3. After I had welcomed the kids, the chairman of The Chemical Attack Victims\Halabja delivered a speech about the unforgettable tragedy of the chemical attack which left 5000 innocent people killed and hundreds more injured.

This kid is one of those children who was born on 16\3 which is the anniversary of the tragedy of Halabja that led to the killing of 5000 innocent citizens and injuring many more. Ahmad was born on 16\3\2014. Ahmad's family said that the tragedy of Halabja is so huge that nobody should forget about it, they also thanked us for the gifts and informed us that it was the second time for their kid to have received our gifts.

We participated in the Children's Day on 1\6\2019 celebration in Khwrmal, a township related to Halabja province, which was held by Khwrmal playhouse and Hawraman butterfly group under the slogan: Seeing About the Children with Special Needs. After delivering a speech, I gave the kids some gifts to put smile on their lips. In the end of the activities, I was given an honorable reward.

Kawsar Abdul-Rahman She was born in 2002, Halabja. She did not have any afterbirth obvious problems, but after two months she was having multiple vomiting conditions. We took her to a specialist doctor to have her checked, the doctor told us that our daughter had brain paralysis, we were shocked to here that. We were extremely sad at the beginning but then we got used to it because it is from God. We want to thank Mr. Sarko and his organization, he has provided our daughter a special wheelchair that helps her go everywhere easily, in addition to some necessary needs for her. We wish him all the best.

He 5 years old, he is from Halabja and goes to Shna kindergarten. He was brought to me in the arms of his mother. His mother was crying a lot, she was begging for help, she said that her son had brain paralysis and she did not know what to do. She did not know that I was someone with special needs too. I asked her if she saw me and she answered yes, I asked her whether she wanted her son to become like me some day and serve his people and she replied yes of course. Then I stood up on my artificial limbs and assured her that I was a person with special needs, she calmed down and wiped her tears. Finally, I provided her son a wheelchair, two crutches and some other stuff. Here he is graduating from his kindergarten and he will be joining school next year

Our needs for the current year(2019) Offering a summer course for about 50 children. This course needs transportation, physiotherapists, psychologists and social researchers. 328 children are in need of special wheelchairs and waiting for them. Medical needs, crutched, diapers and bathroom chairs for 431 children. We need to provide transportation for the kids according to a timetable to make easy for them go back to some sort of a normal life as they are poor and frustrated as a result of their condition. There are more than 76 children who need special or unique types of medications and baby formula, so we need a budget for the organization in order to be able to help them in critical situations.