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    Wadi Newsletter Winter 2025: #Partnerships

  • Active Citizenship, Flyers, Posters, Non-Violence Campaign, Updates, Women

    Building Brighter Futures: End Child Marriages in Iraq!

  • Project Reports, Updates

    Wadi Annual Activity Report 2024

  • Press relaese, Project News, Stop FGM, Stop FGM Kurdistan, Stop FGM Mideast, Updates

    More efforts to end FGM in Iraq needed

  • Environment, Updates

    Model Houses to improve energy sufficiency

  • Environment, General, Press review

    Plastic Recycling in Garmyan: New Treatment for an Old Headache

  • Active Citizenship, General, Non-Violence Campaign, The Jinda-Centre, Yazidi Genocide, Youth/Children

    Active Citizenship: Children’s Access To Education Is A Right Not A Privilege

  • General, Stop FGM, Updates

     Wadi Makes Strides in Combating FGM in Kurdistan

  • General, Press relaese, The Jinda-Centre, Updates, Yazidi Genocide

    Report: Ten years after the genocide: On the situation of the Yazidis and Yazidis in Iraq’ – PRO ASYL and Wadi

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About us

WADI has been supporting a variety of programs and projects for self-help and strengthening human and women’s rights in the Middle East for over 30 years. These include literacy programs, education and training for women, the fight against domestic violence, violence against children and campaigns against female genital mutilation. Our goal is always to strengthen self-organization, this is because we believe in giving people the tools they need to work on solving the problems of their communities. This point of view orients our approach to our projects for and with refugees, the protection of the environment, and the strengthening of free media.

What others say about our work during the last three decades:

“Wadi is one of the most enterprising and inventive NGOs we’ve encountered in Iraq. Wadi’s work is impressively varied, but also shrewdly focused.” (The Register)

“Wadi is a non-governmental organization that has a strong and an obvious effect in our society in finding solutions for women’s problems including support for domestic violence, awareness of the dangers of honor killing and advocacy for women’s rights.” (Development Now)

“With the work of our Member Wadi, in 2022 Halabja and Garmyan were declared free of FGM after fifteen years of intense campaigning!” (End FGM)

“Iraqi Kurds have lived through countless ups and downs in the past 30 years but WADI has encouraged a steady stream of Kurds of both sexes to learn the the joys and tears of participating in civil society.” (J. Randal)

Updates
Wadi Newsletter Winter 2025: #Partnerships

Wadi Newsletter Winter 2025: #Partnerships

In our new winter newsletter, we present, among other things, the new structures of our network, provide information about the…

  • Voices from the Margins: Citizen-Led Health Accountability in Kurdistan
  • One Country, different legal systems; Ja’fari Personal Status Law can shake Iraq`s legal framework?
  • Building Brighter Futures: End Child Marriages in Iraq!
  • New law legalizing child marriage meets with resistance in Iraq
  • Roundatble Discussions and Citizenship Councils: Some Updates of the ‘Active Citizenship’ Project
Chronicle: 34 years of WADI

Wadi was founded in the fall of 1991 by various organizations and individuals.

The original idea has been to create an umbrella organization to coordinate and bundle the activities of various groups and people active in Iraq and Kurdistan.

Read more about our History

Our Partners

A list of our current and previous international partners and donors and of our local partners.

We work on site and some of our Iraqi employees have been with us for over two decades. We pursue a clear goal: Over time, employees will become partners and projects will develop into their own local and independent organizations:


We call this our “From Project to Partner” approch and we are glad with our help some new thriving local civil society organizations were founded.

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  • ADWI: Empowerment for Women and Children in Iraq

    ADWI: Empowerment for Women and Children in Iraq

  • Our Partners in Lesvos: The Moria White Helmets

    Our Partners in Lesvos: The Moria White Helmets

  • ‘Martynka’, a helpline for Ukrainian Women fleeing the war

    ‘Martynka’, a helpline for Ukrainian Women fleeing the war

  • “Dange Nwe” – First Community Radio in Northern Iraq

    “Dange Nwe” – First Community Radio in Northern Iraq

  • Jinda Centre: Assistance for Yazidi Refugees

    Jinda Centre: Assistance for Yazidi Refugees

  • Wadi’s Media Partner: KirkukNow

    Wadi’s Media Partner: KirkukNow

Please support our work

We rely on private donations to keep our projects running. Donations please either via:

Or our Account: Postbank Frankfurt
IBAN: DE43500100600612305602
BIC: PBNKDEFF

Project Reports and Finances

Wadi Annual Activity Report for 2024

Wadi Newsletter Summer 2024

Wadi Annual Activity Report for 2023

Audited Financial Reports

Project News
Roundatble Discussions and Citizenship Councils: Some Updates of the ‘Active Citizenship’ Project

Roundatble Discussions and Citizenship Councils: Some Updates of the ‘Active Citizenship’ Project

What does Active Citizenship mean in daily work? Eight months after starting our campaign, we present some examples. By Isis…

  • More efforts to end FGM in Iraq needed
  • “The Budget is Your Right” – Project to improve transparency of Provincial Councils
  • Wadi Newsletter Summer 2024: #Changes
  • Stop FGM Kurdistan: Trainings for Professionals
  • New environmental project: Model farming in a Kurdish village
Categories
Active Citizenship Analysis Environment General Memory Non-Violence Campaign Press Press relaese Press review Project News Project Reports Publications Refugees Refugees in Greece Stop FGM Stop FGM Kurdistan Stop FGM Mideast Updates Women Yazidi Genocide
Contact:

WADI e. V.
Herborner Straße 62
D-60439 Frankfurt/M
Tel: +49 69 57002440, Email: info@wadinet.de

Wadi Offices Iraq:

Main Office Iraq: KRO Street, Duhok , Kurdistan, Iraq, Tel.: +964 751 474 0305

Suleymaniah Office: Baxtiari 113, Alley 7, House 8, Suleymaniah; Kurdistan, Iraq
Tel.: +964 770 542 0914

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Please support our work:

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Postbank Frankfurt
IBAN: DE43500100600612305602
BIC: PBNKDEFF

 

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