by Orla Straz | 15:34 | Education, Great job, Occupational therapies
Helping. It makes sense. When helping people in a country such as Iraq, it needs to be taken into consideration that not everything will always go according to a plan. The worst thing is powerlessness. In some cases, we are simply unable to help. There are complicated...
by Orla Straz | 15:26 | Education, Medical assistance, Urgent cases
Will the pandemic results bring another humanitarian crisis? The situation in the world which we have been witnessing for several months is not conducive to humanitarian activities. Since March, many humanitarian organizations have been forced to stop their work in...
by Orla Straz | 13:05 | A close point of view
[A Close Point of View] What has happened to global terrorism? Has global terrorism ceased to threaten us? For a while, we haven’t heard about tragic attacks like the ones that happened between 2014 and 2017 in Paris, Nice, and Manchester. What has happened to global...
by Orla Straz | 01:30 | Urgent cases
Help during the time of the pandemic, part 2. In March this year, a lockdown was imposed in Iraq which lasted until half of August. For a long time, many shops as well as roads between the provinces were closed. Humanitarian organizations halted their activities....
by Orla Straz | 21:09 | Stories of survivors
Different? Or worse? The Third World. That is where war never ends. That is how it is over there. I have heard this many times about the place where we work and the people whom we try to help. Have you ever thought how divided our planet is based on stereotypes that...