Project Date2 April 2020
Project TitleCharitable
contribution to support the purchase of medical equipment such as PPEs and
diagnostic tools in response to covid 19 pandemic
 BenefactorKnights of Columbus Charities, Inc., New Haven, USA
Beneficiaries2,500 people in need in Ankawa and surrounding villages
AmountUS$ 100,000.00
Category of Support
Healthcare – Covid
Description

The ongoing pandemic requires equipment and diagnostic tools in Maryamana Hospital such as PPEs, health care services for direct response on the first wave of the pandemic; Knights of Columbus released the fund to support the vulnerable people of Ankawa and surrounding villages.

Closing DateDecember 2020
Project Date6 July 2020 
Project TitleRequest for assistance to cover the personnel costs of the Archdiocese of Erbil due to the Covid 19 emergency
 BenefactorDiozese Rottenburg-Stuttgart Germany
BeneficiariesEight (8) Parish priests of Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil
Amount € 20,000.00
Category of Support
Covid – Church sustenance
Description

Monthly salaries of Priests for November, December 2020 and January 2021; the Archdiocese churches were shut for a cumulative Sundays starting second quarter of 2020 losing weekly collections which impacted also donations of food packages from the priests to parishioners affected by the pandemic.

Closing DateOctober 2021
Project Date11 August 2020
Project TitleStrengthening the Ankawa Humanitarian Committee to respond
 BenefactorUS Aid
BeneficiariesServing the community especially the Iraqi Christians and minorities
Amount$ 2,500,000.00
Category of Support
Church Humanitarian Organization
Description

 Fund to provide organizational capacity building to Ankawa Humanitarian Committee (AHC) as a legal NGO to represent the Archdiocese on its humanitarian work and outreach; to strengthen its capacities to implement USG and other international awards and respond to community needs; to help fulfill its mission in addressing the long-term humanitarian challenges of Iraq with accountability, compassion and long held Christian values and to build a community, where each citizen is able to participate fully in the life of their country Iraq.

Closing Date 30 March 2022
Project Date13 August 2020   
Project TitleEmergency aid to cover running costs during COVID-19 pandemic for 6 months – August 2020 – January 2021
 BenefactorACN Königstein Germany
Beneficiaries10 Chaldean Priests
Amount$ 45,000.00
Category of Support
Church sustenance
Description

The contribution from ACN were distributed to the Priests allowing to stem, at least in part, the very serious economic crisis that has hit the Church most in difficulty during the height of pandemic.

Closing Date 30 May 2021

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Project Date5 November 20220  
Project TitleCOVID-19 emergency factory oxygen machine for Maryamana Catholic Hospital in Erbil
 BenefactorACN Königstein Germany
BeneficiariesThe Ankawa community and surrounding district and IDPs
Amount€ 55,000.00
Category of Support
Healthcare – Maryamana Hospital, Covid
Description

The community and IDPs of all faiths look to the Chaldean Archdiocese Maryamana Hospital to address the second wave of Covid; A ready and constant supply of oxygen is the most vital tool against the covid virus; Therefore, a huge and life-saving purchase of a factory producing oxygen machine gave immediate treatment for moderate and severe covid cases and gave advantage to supply the entire hospital for other sickness.

Closing Date30 May 2021 
Project Date25 November 2020
Project TitleShort term grant allocation for Maryamana Hospital
 BenefactorEmbrace the Middle East UK
BeneficiariesFunds went to 559 patients were treated with the largest numbers being for drugs, then lab investigations and then diagnostic imaging/ surgical operations
Amount GBP 30,000.00
Category of Support
Healthcare – Maryamana Hospital, Covid, supporting those who cannot afford healthcare, Chronic medicines
Description

The aim of the project is to support the poor who could not afford medical treatment/ medicines due to ISIS and the outcomes of that war in Iraq. It destroyed the livelihoods of the minorities (Christians/Yazidis and Shabak), a considerable number of the majority (Muslims), throwing the economy into a long-term recession. Since 2014 most villages have over 80 percent unemployment; people have to survive on charity or on government reduced payments both in salaries and pensions. Covid 19 further impacted, as in a rentier economy, most of the people are dependent on the government; salaries and pensions were cut even further.

Closing Date30 November 2021 
Project Date1 December 2020
Project TitleCharitable contribution to provide financial support to 68 parishes spread across Iraq
 BenefactorKnights of Columbus Charities, Inc., New Haven, USA
Beneficiaries68 parishes in Iraq – Baghdad, Erbil, Sulaymaniah, Basra, Alqosh, Amadiya, Duhok, Zakho
AmountUS$ 340,000.00
Category of Support
Church building repair & maintenance; financial assistance to parishioners in need
Description

 The primary use of financial assistance is to help the parishes repair and rebuild damaged buildings and to provide food, medicine and educational assistance to their parishioners and to the local community.

Closing DateDecember 2022
Project Date3 December 2020  
Project TitleCharitable contribution to support the construction of three additional buildings at CUE
 BenefactorKnights of Columbus Charities, Inc., New Haven, USA
Beneficiaries250 students for the academic year 2021 – 2022; 1,000 student population for the next five academic years
AmountUS$ 1,300,000.00
Category of Support
Education – Catholic University in Erbil
Description

Fund was used to pay the costs associated with the construction of the three laboratory buildings that will connect the civil engineering departments labs, and the biochemistry labs for the college of science; the University helps the remaining members of the Christian community in Ankawa and surrounding villages through the provision of job opportunities out of the education and reaching out to the immigrants and encouraging them to either to return back to their homeland or else provide services and contribute to solving the problems facing the changing society amid present day globalization and information technology that have tremendously affected the Christian existence in the region.

Closing DateSeptember 2021
Project Date 23 December 19 for 2020  
Project Title Aid to rent houses for Christian refugees’ families from Syria in the province of Erbil (01 – 06 / 2020)
 Benefactor ACN Königstein Germany
Beneficiaries 524 Syrian internally displaced families
Amount  € 234,000.00
Category of Support
Housing – Syrians, IDPs
Description

The Chaldean Archdiocese together with ACN project commission has mete aid to these families; The project supported thru the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, made possible by the Austrian Government, with a sum of money; The project has addressed 524 Syrian families by supporting a monetary support amount for their rent expenses on housing for at least five months of the year. The project activity expected to have left a major impact on the future of the Syrian families’ life in Iraq as they were supported, despite the desolation wrought by the unprecedented pandemic, the acceptance they felt being part of the community, having the dignity of what they can call home in Erbil, and the recognition given to them for their predicament which gave a minimum sense of security to their well-being.

Closing Date 25 September 2020

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