Iraqi Widows Organization is a non-governmental
Iraqi Organization issued on January 9, 2004. The
headquarter is in Ad-Diwaniyah City; with branches
in Baghdad. We
are one of the Civil Society Organizations working
in the new Iraq. The Organization is registered as
one of the working non-governmental Iraqi
organizations in the non-Governmental Organizations
Center of the Ministry of Planning and Development
Cooperation under the No. 1Z4024.
The
Organization took as its main duty supporting Iraqi
women, especially the widows, materially and
incorporeally, and raising women living status in
every possible and available way by providing job
opportunities and funding sources for appropriate
programs. The Organization seeks to educate Iraqi
women and make them conscious of ways help in
strengthening their activity in their society and
raising their status to be similar to other women in
the civilized communities and in every possible side
to make Iraqi women capable of taking active role in
creating the future of the New Iraq.
The
Organization also seeks to take the initiative to
fight the discrimination against the woman, making
the woman aware of her rights and duties, ending the
injustice women suffered during the period of the
previous regime, and supporting women in taking
their role in forming the Constitution of the New
Iraq and voting to achieve their hopes and what they
are looking for in the new society being formed.
Statistics indicates that the number of widows in
Diwanyah is 7,000. The members of the Organization
took on their shoulders changing the hard conditions
of this number of women economically and socially by
offering short-term loans to be paid on monthly
payments. These loans are available for small
businesses that make women have living income and
provide them with extra income for their social
activities in this critical period of our country
conditions. The programs we adopt include computer
training programs, training on dress-making,
embroidering, offering gifts in festivities and
social occasions.
