Friday, May 21, 2010

Former Iraqi refugees benefit from UNHCR shelter programme in the south


AL KAHLA DISTRICT, Iraq, May 20 (UNHCR)  Seven years after returning to Iraq from long exile in neighbouring Iran and three years after losing her husband and son in a bomb blast, Suad Jafar finally has something to be happy about a house of her own.
Suad and her five grandchildren were among a group of 180 Iraqi families, gathering more than 1,000 people, who were given the keys to new houses earlier this month in the southern province of Missan under a UNHCR shelter programme.
Read more at the UNHCR

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