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By Darbaz Younis
This is Mamilyan camp in Kurdistan Region’s area of Akre.
Some 13,000 IDPs mostly Yezidi Kurds from Shingal live in this camp.
The SEED center helps the displaced population to recover from violence and trauma.
The center was found by Sherri Kraham Talabani, wife of Kurdish deputy prime minister.
The center’s programs focus on: Psycho-Social Services, life skills and classes, livelihoods training, and recreational activities.
Women are being taught about agriculture through the agricultural program and a small greenhouse built in the camp.
Kurdish musician Hajar Zahawy also ran a one-day workshop for the kids to teach them how to play Daf.
He says that children cannot be taught in one day, but they can find the talents among them.
Kids around the camp gathered here for an entertaining moment of Daf played by Zahawi.
Some 1.8 million IDPs and Refugees have taken shelter in the Kurdistan Region from Iraq and Syria.
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