Category — Project Updates

Direct Aid Iraq wishes to express our heartfelt appreciation for our friend and colleague Rana, who has become a key member of the DAI team.

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I recently received a message from two kind ladies who wanted to draw a smile on Iraqi kids’ faces. Laura, Annie, and their colleagues’ main concern is with children who have been hurt during the American-British occupation of Iraq. Their organization, called “Circus2Iraq”, believes in promoting peace and love among all people, like DAI. Because of this, it was very easy for us to cooperate with them.

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Democracy in Action, a leading provider of technology services to progressive non-profits, recently honored DAI with a grant that provides us with a year of free use of their full suite of cutting-edge tools for e-advocacy and fundraising.

DAI’s work is based on our ability to connect people - Iraqis, Americans, and others - in a network that bridges the walls of violence, ignorance, and suffering that have been built by years of war, sanctions, and chaos. We are already moving forward with using these new tools to deepen our engagement with constituents in the US as we develop a rapid-response capability to match urgent medical needs of Iraqis in the Middle East with a growing community of support in the US. We are well on our way to making our vision of “investing in peace” a reality.

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The whole Direct Aid Iraq team would like to say “thank you” to Christian, our very first intern. Christian is a student at a Quaker boarding school in northern New England, and has been working with DAI in our Vermont office for the last three weeks. He’s overcome illness, a car accident, and more to contribute his gifts and time to supporting this work, and we’re deeply grateful.

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After several months of our web presence being hosted solely at ElectronicIraq.net, DAI has branched out and set up its own website to allow more ease-of-use and opportunities to connect with supporters of this effort. We will remain closely involved with EIraq, and hope visitors to this site will check out that site for great Iraq news & analysis you won’t find anywhere else, as well as a roundup of the most important news of the day.

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