![]() We ask you to consider a twelve month commitment of $65 per month to support just one of those who have survived the ravages of the Islamic State. When their friends go out of the camp for a pizza, they will remain behind in their tent. They will remain without clothes, without the ability to pay for a haircut or medical check ups. Without your tangible care and generosity they will remain marginalized, unable to be a part of society. To learn how to mentally and emotionally walk out of captivity and engage with life, family and community. Hopefully, Yours is a gentle programme to help those who have lost their life, find it. Each person has their own story, we meet them exactly where they are at. Some are angry, some full of rage, some silenced and shut down. ![]() Some ask for food, some for footballs, some for goldfish, rabbits or doves. Some come on ancient bikes, some in wheelchairs having lost their legs in a battle that was not theirs to fight. Some come and call us "infidels", some come in need of endless hugs. They miss their friends, so they come, and stay. Some don't want to come, but they do because their friends who " served " alongside them in places like Raqqa and Baghouz, Deir-ez-Zor and Mosul, have found their home with us, and have invited them. They come through the blue gate into The Hope House, broken, wary, suspicious of who we are, some angry, some enraged, some confused, some missing children born in captivity, some unsure of their origins relying on the memory of friends or family who knew them in Sinjar. Their health, physical and emotional, has been abused and destroyed. Their dignity paraded in endless slave markets. ![]() ![]() Their identity has been stripped from them. They have been raped, sold, abused, tortured, starved, dehumanized, forced to bow to the rule and reign of the caliphate of ISIS. Their names have been changed, their memories eradicated. Not even new clothing or a tent to dwell in.Īfter seven years of servitude under the regime of the Caliphate their mother tongue has been stolen from them, they speak only Syrian Arabic. The vast majority of those rescued have no parents, some are sole survivors of their tribal family. During the past seven years, Springs of Hope Foundation has received and become home to over four hundred women, children and youth who have been rescued from captivity in the Islamic state and who have been brought to safety in the Kurdish region of Iraq. ![]()
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