Displaced people living in tin shacks in Baghdad

Displaced people living in tin shacks in Baghdad



Side of the huts inhabited by displaced people near the Martyrs Cemetery on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad (Al-Jazeera)

Last Updated: 22/11/2016 at 02:40 (Mecca)

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On the banks of the Tigris in the Adhamiya district of Baghdad , and near the Martyrs Cemetery, home to about 250 huts of wood and tin displaced people from the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah and the southern province of Salahuddin and spend Sinjar in Nineveh province, it has also spread into the alleys and empty spaces other huts do not prevent its inhabitants winter cold.

Prime voluntary youth Adhamiya says Mohammed al-Obeidi said the largest percentage of the population in makeshift homes are widows and orphans, some of whom worked in menial jobs for low wages, while some families have resorted to begging.

He adds Obeidi of the island revealed that most of them lack health services, yet they are receiving assistance from the mosques and health centers in the region, but it is not sufficient.

Although the Ministry of Education has identified for the people displaced in the evening always Muthanna School warm area, many of them are still out of school, and most of them suffering from a lack of electricity and drinking water availability.



Most of the displaced children in this region cut off from school and suffer from health problems (Island)

Unemployment and poverty
Most of the residents of these homes did not have the constant work. Some of them work in construction and others in popular restaurants, and although some of them work in the security services, the most of them complain of unemployment , while some residents and relief organizations trying to help them.

He says Abu Faisal next in terms of Yathrib southern Salahuddin province, he is unemployed after losing his home and his farm and livestock, which he owned, and he can not go back because some of the militias and prevent him from it.

He adds that some of the families returned to their homes, but many had left again because of the threats they receive, and attempts to force them to pay compensation for the losses of the war there, even though they are the biggest victims.

Um Hamid widow displaced from pristine neighborhood in Ramadi, says that the largest children and aged 18 years working in construction, an unstable work because of the volatility of the situation, and the other with a fifteen-year-old thereby acting in a shop selling vegetables, can barely make ends meet with Rising prices.

Um Hamid indicate that what prevents them from returning to her hometown was that her house had been demolished in the war, which does not have the makings of money to rebuild, and some members of her family are still scattered between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region.


She suffers a lot of displaced people who live in these houses of unemployment and lack of employment opportunities (Island)

unknown future
The future of more displaced people still unaccounted for after the government failed to provide housing or services to them, and despite the fact that many of them have begun to return to their towns and villages after restored by the government, the problem still exists.

According to the Committee on Migration and Displacement parliamentary member Ahmed milkfish the island revealed that of the total 354 thousand families displaced from Anbar after the outbreak of fighting in which, she returned a hundred thousand families only.

Milkfish and indicates the presence of five camps for displaced people in Baghdad alone, which is better off than the rest of the provinces in terms of availability of food and basic services.

He adds that the radical solution was the return of all displaced people to their areas after the retrieval, otherwise the problem will continue to exist, because the provision of "caravans" or homes for displaced people in Baghdad is not possible currently to the lack of financial allocations for it, he said.

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