22 Facts About Yazda

Yazda: Global Yazidi Organization, is a United States-based global Yazidi nonprofit, non-governmental organization advocacy, aid, and relief organization.

Yazda helped by providing humanitarian assistance in the form of food and water to approximately 60,000 Yazidis, who were stranded on mountain Sinjar by ISIL during the week of August 3,2014.

At this point, Yazda began its work trying to locate and help free Yazidi women and girls, more than 3,200 of whom were captured, enslaved, and are still held hostage by the Islamic State.

Yazda sponsored multiple online petitions to focus on helping captured and enslaved Yazidi women.

Activists working with Yazda asked US President Barack Obama to help the women and girls still held captive.

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Yazda provides assistance and support to the Yazidi activist, Nadia Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner and since September 2016 the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations.

Yazda was kidnapped and held by the Islamic State in August 2014.

Yazda is run by teams of volunteers in the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Iraq.

Yazda has a Medical Center in Iraq and supports thousands of people in need of primary medical care and first aid services.

Yazda has a mobile clinic in Sinjar to support the Yazidis in the remote areas and villages around Sinjar.

Yazda conducts missions to provide humanitarian aids and relief services of clean water, clothing, and food to as many displaced people as possible.

Yazda worked with the Voices of Rwanda, an organization that has been documenting the Rwanda's genocide, to train and support Yazda's documentation team.

Yazda began a psycho-social program in its center in Dohuk, Iraq, for the Yazidi women and girls who managed to escape or are rescued from ISIL.

Yazda helps them recover from the trauma and reintegrate into society via response programs to help the women with methods that include individual therapy and often require long-term treatment.

Yazda aims is to create an environment that is conducive to the healing of trauma survivors.

Yazda provides medical and psychological treatment to help them recover from the damage they have experienced.

Yazda opened a medical clinic in the Esseyan camp to provide the displaced Yazidis with basic medical care.

Yazda has managed to support the people in need with primary care services with the support of the Health Directorate of Dohuk.

Yazda maintains a physical health center, and has a staff of 17-member team of nurses, pharmacists, physician's assistants, and lab assistants, in addition to several doctors.

Yazda had established a mobile clinic to serve the displaced Yazidis who still live on the Sinjar mountain area.

Yazda provides food, water, clothes, and other necessities for the orphans of escaped women, and other people in need in IDP camps.

Yazda provides assistance to children visiting the Yazda Women's Center in Duhok, with planned outreach for displaced children who need sponsorship and adoption services, direct aid, and trauma, medical, and education support.