Qalawa Refugee Camp: Photos speak the terrible story.

 by Mahdi Abdullah
 Photos by Kurdistan Fatih

 The camp itself is dozens of ramshackle houses that have been erected over a large dirt field. Almost nine thousand families live in the camp. Public services are in a poor state. The sun-burned, rough-looking faces of the children and adults testify to the daily hardship of their lives.

The camp is populated by Arab families that fled violence in other parts of Iraq at the peak of the sectarian conflict in the country in the past few years.

I don't want to say a lot about the situation in that comp. I leave you with the photos to speak with you.

The children mix smile and crying when they ask for the basic needs.

The children of the refugees asked for school and court like any other kids in the city.

Children ask the government to provide school and a place to play games for the camp.

 The children ask the government to help them not in order not to lose their future.With a big smile on their faces, the children want the government provide them a space to play in and a school to study in.

Children don't have any schools and any place to play in.

 Children don't have any schools to study in, and any place to play in.

These old ladies lost their husbands during the Iraq-USA war.

  

Those old ladies lost their husbands during the Iraq-USA war, and there is no one to help them now.

According to the refugees, the government doesn't provide enough water, they are completly out of electricity.



 According to the refugees, the government doesn't provide enough water, they are completely out of electricity.

Since most of the women lost their husbands, they are obliged to involve their under 18-year-old children to work.