Girls at a Baghdad Orphanage inspecting their new towels. Photo: AoC

Location: Baghdad, Kerbala, Babil
Timing: May –September 2003
Budget: $15,000 cash contribution
$42,000 in-kind canned meat donation (21,000 lbs)
$165,200 in-kind hygiene kit donation (4130 kits, one kit is for 4 people)

• The canned beef was distributed to needy families in Baghdad by the Chaldean Church.
• The hygiene kits were distributed to:
  1. 118 Children living in 4 institutions in Baghdad (orphanages and homes for street children) and 1 orphanage in Kerbala.
  2. 2990 poor families in Baghdad and 800 poor families in Babil.
• Following a distribution to families in the Baghdad suburb of Huriya, Ibrahim, from an Iraqi partner agency, told the AoC field representative, “Iraq is in a very difficult time. What you did has made a lot of people happy. We are very grateful that people 1000s of kilometers away care about us enough to send something.”
• Contents of hygiene kits: 4 bars soap, 1 bottle shampoo, 10 cups powdered laundry detergent, 1 tube toothpaste, 4 toothbrushes, 4 bath towels, 1 hairbrush, 1 comb, 1 fingernail clipper, 1 box bandages, 1 package sanitary pads. (A laborer would have needed to work at least two weeks to be able to purchase these items at the time of distribution.)