Needs Assessment
Currently there are still 12,000 registered Christian families (approximately 95,000 people) who fled the war on the Nineveh Plains and are presently living as internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Erbil and neighboring towns. With the easing of the conflict and the liberation of their villages, many of these Christians seek to return to their homes and livelihoods.
The destruction, however, is considerable: almost 13,000 homes in nine Christian villages in the Nineveh Plains were damaged, burnt or totally destroyed. All of them were plundered. These IDPs prefer to return to their ancestral lands rather than becoming refugees in foreign lands. The Nineveh Reconstruction Committee has been assessing the damages, begun to repair hundreds of homes and is assisting the IDPs to return home. To date an estimated 17,000 IDPs have returned to the Nineveh Plains.
Further challenges cloud this already complex situation: security concerns in the villages, Kurdish-Iraqi political maneuvering on the ground, infrastructure damage (water, electricity, roads, schools and clinics).
Private Houses
1233 Totally Destroyed
3520 Burnt
8217 Partially Damaged
Total: 12970
Data updated on 11 May 2017
Church Properties
34 Totally Destroyed
132 Burnt
197 Partially Damaged
Total: 363
Data updated on 11 May 2017
Public Properties
16 Totally Destroyed
9 Burnt
115 Partially Damaged
Total: 140
Data updated on 3 April 2017
The Challenges are Enormous
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