By IsraAID Staff | Germany
In August of 2014, ISIS militants attacked the Sinjar Mountains in northwestern Iraq, home of the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi ethno-religious minority. In the subsequent massacre, five thousand Yazidi civilians were killed, and more than six thousand kidnapped, many of them girls and women who were subsequently sold into sex slavery.
Today, Germany has the largest Yazidi population in the world outside of Iraq. Survivors of the genocide and subsequent human rights abuses suffer from trauma, an overwhelming barrier to rebuilding their lives.
The IsraAID Germany team, is working with Yazidi survivors to support their recovery and rehabilitation processes. Psychosocial support groups for Yazidi women living in refugee shelters utilize art and other semi-verbal tools to process their experiences. Additional one-on-one counselling sessions are offered by IsraAID Mental Health professionals, to work through symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and assist with integration into German society. Simultaneously, IsraAID has supported the Yazidi-German diaspora community, many of whom immigrated to Germany in the early 1990s, training them in best practices to support new arrivals and rebuild community.
This project is one of the recovery, rehabilitation, and integration programs led by IsraAID Germany toward the goal of supporting refugees.
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