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Keeping busy with sport and making friends is such a benefit for them. When they come here in the afternoon they play and play and play, then they get tired and go home and sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">The football project was started three years ago with generous support from Mosaic Middle East, and around 250 children come each week to play football<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nI have been coaching them so that they learn about team tactics and how to work together in a positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe laid a new pitch and put goals up. We bought the children kit and new footballs. I have been coaching them so that they learn about team tactics and how to work together in a positive way. The pitch is open five days a week and is always full.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe have several success stories from this football project. The biggest story is that our student Mohannad Hosam has received an invitation to join Aljazeera football club in the United Arab Emirates. 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We want to open a door for them to have a good life and find happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nFather Salar is a Chaldean Catholic Priest who lives in the Nineveh Plain. This area in the north of the country has been fought over for centuries and is the home of Christianity in Iraq. Mosaic Middle East Chief Executive, Mike Simpson, first met Salar in London when the priest had been invited to address UK government ministers. Mike then invited Salar to travel from the north of Iraq to Baghdad to see the work of St George\u2019s, including the medical clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile in Baghdad, Salar told us about the martyrdom of his best friend. Unfazed by the risks, Salar is back in Nineveh coordinating the rebuilding of five Christian villages. 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I fully intended to leave. I had no hope here, my whole work was over. But when Mosaic Middle East came, they gave me hope<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Raed is the owner of the largest chicken farm in Qaraqosh, northern Iraq. \u201cMy farm is in the Al-Hamdaniya region, which before ISIS was a fully functioning project. When ISIS invaded, they destroyed our farm\u2019s infrastructure, and all the farms of this region were completely destroyed. When we returned, we found only destruction and devastation. As an old chicken farmer, I fully intended to leave. I had no hope here, my whole work was over. But when Mosaic Middle East came, they gave me hope\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am so grateful to you for your support to me and to others here. Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAfter giving me hope, they gave me the capability to restore this farm, this project which had been going for 30 years. Praise God, I saw the project completed and 100% better than before ISIS. We hope the renovation of this region with more producing projects will be possible. God willing, this chicken farm will produce because of what Mosaic has given. You give me hope to stay here and God willing, I will continue. I will keep going. I thank you will all my heart. I am so grateful to you for your support to me and to others here. Thank you.\u201d Thanks to you our donors in the UK and USA, the restoration of Raed\u2019s farm was completed at the end of 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We want to open a door for them to have a good life and find happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nFather Salar is a Chaldean Catholic Priest who lives in the Nineveh Plain. This area in the north of the country has been fought over for centuries and is the home of Christianity in Iraq. Mosaic Middle East Chief Executive, Mike Simpson, first met Salar in London when the priest had been invited to address UK government ministers. Mike then invited Salar to travel from the north of Iraq to Baghdad to see the work of St George\u2019s, including the medical clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile in Baghdad, Salar told us about the martyrdom of his best friend. Unfazed by the risks, Salar is back in Nineveh coordinating the rebuilding of five Christian villages. 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Alqosh is a village in the Nineveh Plain, the ancestral home of Iraq\u2019s dwindling Christian community. Different factions contest Lara\u2019s legitimacy in the mayoral role. As a charity seeking to support the people returning to the Nineveh Plain we can only seek to work with whoever is in power at a given time. The conflict over her role further reinforces the need to work with local Iraqi organisations.","dropCap":false,"bid":13182}},{"uid":"c19510bd-e369-49c0-8864-81d16fd47da3","name":"core\/paragraph","data":{"content":"\"Money sent by Western countries to the Christian areas through the government does not reach the Christians. But there is a way for it to reach them safely; that is through the church. Money that goes through the church is actually spent on the reconstruction of Christian homes. Teleskuf is the best example of this. If it was left to the government, Teleskuf wouldn\u2019t look like it does today!","dropCap":false,"bid":"1c529"}},{"uid":"76dd3d57-d8c2-46c6-b638-3b668600fbeb","name":"core\/quote","data":{"value":"If it was left to the government, Teleskuf wouldn\u2019t look like it does today!<\/p>","citation":"","bid":"177b4"}},{"uid":"7a2be47b-0014-4a42-890f-0c73aaad8012","name":"core\/paragraph","data":{"content":"Our region depends greatly on agriculture. 85% of the Nineveh Plain\u2019s economy relies on agriculture but it is possible to encourage other industries. There are many who are competent and capable in the region. Financial support is needed to open factories and encourage local businesses like the wood and aluminium industry. 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