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 More than 3,200 aid parcels from World Vision arrived Monday in Al Rutbah, Iraq, a city of some 25,000 people located 80 miles from the Jordanian border in western Iraq. The packages included boots, clothing, blankets, plastic sheeting and water containers.
“These packages will go a long way in showing the Iraqis that people outside the country care for them and want their best,” said relief worker Mike Pattison, now serving in Iraq. “Al Rutbah has a low standard of living – even for Iraq. Within one month, every family in the city will have received some form of aid.”
In Al Rutbah, World Vision has provided medicines, oxygen and IV drip bags to the town’s only hospital, which was damaged during the war. In addition, World Vision is organizing a program to protect children from unexploded landmines and other ammunition. And by paying only $25 in transportation costs for technicians in another city, World Vision saw to it that the city’s electricity was restored after weeks of sporadic service. World Vision also has delivered similar aid parcels as well as medical supplies in Mosul, in the northern governate of Nineveh.
World Vision also plans to repair more than 100 rundown and looted primary schools in both Al Rutbah and Mosul in the coming months.
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