The sponsorship campaign in Kurdistan

The sponsorship campaign of families and Kurd orphan children comes about through the purpose of helping the refugee fields and the villages of Kurdistan, after the deportation and the slaughter of thousands people. For long years the extermination of the Kurds was perpetrated in every state (Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria). This initiative wants to answer in a concrete way to the requests of help and solidarity with the Kurd people that at the present day is in a very dramatic situation.

Till now, more than 60 families that live in the refugee fields of “Dara tu”, “Shorosh”, “Takia” and “Smud” in dire need, have been adopted. The sponsorship campaign has the purpose of granting to the majority of refugee families in Kurdistan a minimum financial fund sufficient to their survival. The general standards of adoption have been established together with the members of the Kurd branch of Azadì. Within every field, those who are adopted are people in very need of economical support. The families of “Martyres”, fallen fighting for liberation or missing because of the Anfal operation, are helped. These families are indicated by local organization of voluntary service and solidarity and by the members of the committee Azadì in Kurdistan.

To sponsor a family, it is necessary to pay a monthly minimum due (actually fixed to 13,00 Euro) to the Azadì Association for a year long. You can sponsor one or more families. The Association gets the monthly dues locally and allow them to arrive to the Azadì Committee in Kurdistan. The members of the committee will deliver directly to the “sponsored” families the dues. The presence of a Kurd branch of the committee is essential to establish a direct and continuous contact between the families and their supporters, through the exchange of letters, photos, little gifts, and so on.

In the 1996 trip in Kurdistan, these letters were distressed by the police, but our purpose is to keep on helping the Kurd families in the villages and in the refugee fields, granting their survival. Aids are destined for buying books and exercise-books for children, because it is necessary to give continuity to the language and culture of the Kurd people.