Category Our Activities

Hariwan and DAKOK Organizations in partnership with IOM conducted a three-day workshop for lighthouse peace club members in Kirkuk/Hawijah on social cohesion, peacebuilding, and how to lobby and advocate for full implementation of United Nations Conventions and link them to NAP to support inclusive UN 1325, UN2250 and promote social cohesion.

Hariwan Organization for Development of human rights with the partnership of international Organization of migration IOM has conducted and successfully accomplished several activities, English course, computer course and drawing course. certificates and gifts were awarded to all the participants as an appreciation for their efforts, we wish them all the success .

Hariwan Organization for Development of Human Rights in partnership with IOM with the support of US AID.
Celebrated international Children’s Day at Shekhan Camp. Wishing them a very beautiful life. May the love and laughter always stay on every child’s face. Happy children day.

Also on this day child resilience program has been ended and certificates have been handed to the children who were the participants of the program.

The aim of c is to reinforce mental capacity, increase physical and mental awareness, increase concentration, reduce aggression, stress, and depression, help relieve psychological and neurological stress, increase physical activity, rejuvenate body energy, and create a sense of vitality, also to unite the relations for cooperation and enhance the feeling between them.

Volunteers engaged to have space in the project to participate in planning, organizing, and implementing activities, they will also give the opportunity if they have any idea for an activity to implement with the support of the team, experiences, and the exchange of ideas and information between the participating groups, their rehabilitation and promotion the cultural and social aspect through the positive and effective participation of youth in community issues and developing the spirit of positive competition and self-reliance, and reducing dependence on external factors to obtain opportunities and achieve success.

Organized (8) team, four teams from IDPs in the camp and another four teams from Host community in the camp, the number of participants (70) person (male), aged between (16-30) years, The aim of this championship is to reinforcement social cohesion between the IDPs and the host community and to strengthen social relations among them, to carry out a series of group discussions among themselves, to complete their ideas and skills, and to reinforcement steadfastness and trust between the displaced and the members of the host community, be an initiative that will contribute to the empowerment and integration of IDPs and host communities in a way that will make them effective partners in building and strengthening community solidarity and social cohesion.

Wars and conflicts have a wide psychological impact on young people, suffering from psychological pressures and psychological problems and emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social problems and reduce psychological effects and in order to support social cohesion and peace-building between the displaced person, on October 1st, 2019 Organized a recreational and scientific trip to the (Khenis Village and Lalish temple) for(150) IDPs in Shekhan Camp and Host community at Shekhan of both gender from Shekhan camp, The beneficiaries were mostly participants attending our activities, also including people have psychological problems, and they were aged between (16- 30) years, with the aim of psychologically supporting them and strengthening social relations, it’s very important to involve them all in one event to strengthen relationships and make them know more about each other, which develops their social relationships and breaks the barrier of shyness that is very common in their culture. Especially between males and females and relieving the psychological stress and daily difficulties faced by these displaced persons and with the aim of enhancing self-confidence, mutual trust, dialogue, peace-building and enhancing resilience and trust between them, we are happy and proud to be in one common holy place after losing all their possessions, and did not leave the smile, joy and happiness on their faces, and where the team worked to entertain participants through competitions and games and hear songs , in order to alleviate psychological pressures and peaceful coexistence and the creation of a spirit of cooperation that can be shared by people living in the camp, as a first step in forming social relationships, The aim of this trip is to teach peace to help people cope with psychological problems and psychosocial disorders , This process of adaptation drives us to think and search for solutions, which makes us take appropriate decisions about these pressures and we take active roles to get rid of them or adapt to them. When the adaptation process succeeds either by relieving or coexisting with stress, it creates a new awareness and exciting insights in life that make us more adaptable in the future and more resistant to stress. Confronting grief, not losing hope, and not severing relations with others.

The activity was a trip to Lalish, an archaeological site and a sacred spiritual temple located in Shekhan, this temple contains special monuments and rituals of the Yezidi religion. Yazidis met in Lalish during holidays, feasts, and other religious events to perform their religious rites. They were warmly welcomed and respected by the Sheikh and we were guided by a clergyman who showed us all the rituals and place of the holy temples in the temple, as well as provided all the historical and religious information and stories dating back to hundred years ago, this information was very important to young people who are not well educated about their religion.

Awareness-raising sessions and the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) sessions on Suicide Response that was conducted by Hariwan organization with the partnership of IOM and funded by British Embassy Baghdad.

The number of participants were (50) person of both gender aged between (18-50) years, and for the Standard Operation Procedures Session were (20) and they were include of Sector Leaders, camp management, Staff of organizations working in the camp, Hariwan Staff and Volunteers

The aim of the Session (To raising awareness on suicide prevention and how the community work with Hariwan center to provide the services and observation the suicide cases and how can they provide support in the event that Hariwan staff are not present in the camp how can they deal and what are the steps that they have to conduct and the way to referral when occurring urgent cases

Training women on how to sew masks for people, the masks for People will be used as a protection tool of COVID-19, the people received these masks be one of those people who don’t have the capacity to buy masks for their family and themselves and these were be alleviate psychological stress within the camp, work on an integrated group, increase the spirit of cooperation among women in the camp and build social cohesion among women, the team conducted awareness about COVID-19, and the importance of sewing masks for people in need and provide such humanitarian services. The participants show their happiness for providing and help their community. At the end of this course, they were so happy because of the ability to helping their society, they could sew a lot of masks, and even now, we able to use those masks during our activities which it conducted in the field.

• In the end of the course the masks were distributed to the residents of the camp.

Note/ The team has also adhered to the hygiene practices by wearing masks, gloves, and social distance to ensure good personal hygiene to prevent the spread of the Corona-virus.

Life skills Training includes all important topics related to life skills such as (communication skills, decision making, problem-solving, self-awareness, self-confidence, understanding and accepting the other, dealing with the pressures, and critical thinking). The participants will be encouraged to implement some small activities to practice psychosocial wellbeing personal skills are the essential life skills we need to help maintain a healthy body and mind, such as resilience, they include skills such as how we recognize, manage and cope with emotions, the objectives of this training are to build self-confidence, encourage critical thinking, foster independence and help people to communicate more effectively personal skills are the essential life skills we need to help maintain a healthy body and mind, such as resilience, they include skills such as how we recognize, manage and cope with emotions. As well as our aim from this activity is for people in the camp to know more about managing their life and seeking their future and knowing the best choice for their life and how can they depend on themselves.