Our new Power Girls Gym and Computer Room open

We were so pleased to hold an official opening ceremony to showcase our newly-added facilities for women and girls at Essyan camp recently.

With generous funding from Ideas Beyond Borders, we have opened a new Computer Room, which is equipped with laptops to enable those we support to get online, improve their tech skills and be part of the digital world.

And thanks to kind support from Care Iraq, we have launched the Power Girls Gym, where women and girls can exercise and keep fit and healthy in a safe and welcoming space.

During the grand opening event, we also took the opportunity to formally unveil our eight renovated greenhouses for women to grow their own vegetables and earn incomes. The greenhouses are part of our She Leads in Food Security project which is being delivered in partnership with Care Iraq through funding from Deutsche Gesellschaft fürInternationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

As part of the grand opening event, we were joined by some very special guests, including Dr. Khanzad Ahmad, Secretary General of Kurdistan’s High Council for Women and Development, as well as representatives from our partners at Care and Ideas Beyond Borders, plus AVSI and VOP.

There were also musical performances by a group of our talented young musicians, speeches and a huge celebratory cake for all to enjoy. The event was also covered by local media including Kurdistan 24 TV, who interviewed our Regional Director Vian about our projects and these new facilities.

We are so proud of these new openings and the hard work that has gone into making the vision a reality, and we’re delighted that so many in the community at Essyan will benefit from them…