Yahia - Homeless

Yahia was forced to leave the city of Samarra because of the dramatic increase in violence there.

He came to the Marsh Arab area with his wife and six children: two girls (Wahida and Hudda) and four boys (Hussam, Noor, Ghoson and Sajad). With nowhere to sleep they squatted in the local school.

Yahia received a livelihood grant from War Child and established his own grocery business. He now not only rents a home for his family, but all six children go to the school they were previously sleeping in.