Location: Baghdad
Timing: May – October 2005 (in progress)
Budget: $37,231 cash
$788,803 in-kind hygiene kit donation (59,175 individual kits)

• This AoC partner has been working with at-risk children in Iraq for more than five years. They have incorporated hygiene awareness into their work with institutionalized children and street children.
• Hygiene kit distribution and training will be incorporated into the following programs:
  • Center for at-risk children – AoC partner operates a day center for children of poor families in a Baghdad neighborhood. Children attending this center, and their families, will receive kits and training.
  • Children in reintegration program – AoC partner, in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, works to reintegrate institutionalized and street children with their families.
  • Mobile unit – AoC partner operates a mobile unit that supports street children throughout Baghdad.
• Contents of kits: hand towel, washcloth, comb, nail clipper, bar of soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, Band-Aids