SEED’s President Interview Babylon FM
SEED's President, Sherri Kraham Talabany, was interviewed on Babylon FM earlier today, to launch SEED's December Campaign 'Life Changing Donations'
SEED Foundation Rescues Women from ISIS Terror in Iraqi Kurdistan. Washington Diplomat, Larry Luxner, July 6, 2016.
The SEED Foundation, a nonprofit group established by Sherri Kraham Talabany, made its local debut May 19 with a gala dinner at Washington’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The fundraiser attracted more than 200 people and raised tens of thousands of dollars for the organization, which is based in the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil. Read More...
Responding to the Mosul Crisis
For over a year, the SEED Center in Mamilyan Camp, Akre, has provided services to displaced Iraqis, largely from the Yezidi and Shabak minority communities, who suffered horrific abuses at the hands of ISIS. Although some of their villages have now been freed, in most cases it is unsafe to return to them due to [...]
Providing for My Family
Mansa is a woman from Sinjar who fled her home when ISIS attacked in August 2014. She and her family ran away but in the chaos that followed, she and two of her children became separated from her husband and their six other children on Mount Sinjar. Thankfully she and her family survived the desperate [...]
TheBlaze interview Sherri Kraham Talabany – SEED Foundation of Kurdistan
Jason interviews Sherri from S.E.E.D foundation of KurdistanJason interviews Sherri from S.E.E.D foundation of Kurdistan Posted by TheBlaze on Monday, 21 November 2016
Giving My Life Meaning
Haifa, a young woman from Mosul, was a university student when ISIS took over Mosul in summer 2014. Fearing for their lives, Haifa and her family fled, leaving everything behind. They suffered a difficult journey to safety in Kurdistan, before finding themselves on the street in Akre, a town in Duhok. They spent four months [...]
Supporting My Family
Fatima is originally from a village near Mosul but was forced to flee with her family from ISIS’s extreme brutality against the Yezidi minority community in August 2014. Along with thousands of others, Fatima and her family endured a long and arduous journey, first escaping to Mount Sinjar, and then to the Syrian border, before [...]
Starting to Heal
Bahe is a survivor of ISIS captivity, who was able to escape and rejoin her family at Mamilyan Camp in Akre. She began participating in SEED’s baking classes in February of 2016. She came to classes regularly but didn’t speak much with the other participants. Observing that she wasn’t fully participating SEED’s psychotherapist, offered to [...]
SEED Helping Survivors to Recover
The SEED Foundation delivers comprehensive psychosocial services to those displaced by ISIS in Kurdistan, particularly survivors of violence. At the SEED Center we deliver high quality mental health services, recreational activities, livelihood training, and life skills education to support men, women, and children, to start to heal and recover and rebuild their lives. Come check [...]
Sherri Kraham Talabani: Kurdistan’s future lies in investing in women, youth. Rudaw, July 08, 2016
Sherri Kraham Talabani: Kurdistan’s future lies in investing in women, youth ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—A stronger, more democratic, prosperous future for the Kurdistan Region lies with empowering the nation’s women and supporting them in leadership and decision-making roles, said Sherri Kraham Talabani, co-founder of SEED, in an interview with Rudaw. Read More...