Sanitation Campaigns for Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Iraq

Two organizations that are part of Ninewa’s SAG, Youth of Tal Afar and Zummar Youth Council, conducted sanitation campaigns in their respective localities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Youth of Tal Afar helped sanitize public and governmental spaces and conducted outreach campaigns to minority groups in the Ninewa Plains. Zummar Youth Council helped clean and sterilize the district center, schools, government offices, and public markets in Zummar. The Municipality and Health Directorates, National Security Directorates, Police Departments, and other agencies participated in the drive.

IGPA/Takamul partner CSO, the Engineering Association for Development, handed out thermometers and assisted low-income families with financial support in al-Farouq, al-Sarjkhana, al-Maydan and Shaikh Abu al-Aola districts in Ninewa. The CSO also provided nine medical beds to al-Salam hospital for quarantined patients.

The Odessa Organization for Women’s Development, a Ninewa-based CSO trained by IGPA/Takamul on stakeholder-mapping, initiated a three-day awareness campaign on COVID-19. Called “Prevention Is Better Than Cure,” the campaign was conducted in Mosul and the Ninewa Plains. The women volunteers went from house to house to distribute brochures and flyers, with particular outreach to minorities and underserved families including Yazidis, Christians, Turkmen, and Shabaks.