On January 31, 2017, SEED Foundation launched the Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS) at Koya University in the Kurdistan Region. The Center for MHPSS will serve to strengthen the quality of mental health and psychosocial support services through ongoing education, training and supervision. The center was launched following the first meeting [...]
In December 2016 SEED launched a humanitarian campaign to aid survivors. With the help of The MLF French School, Fakher Mergasori School, The International School of Choueifat - Erbil, The Fig Club, Fingerprints Children’s Centre, and Babylon Media we were able to collect all necessary items to help newly arrived women, who have escaped ISIS, [...]
Earlier this week, we visited Chamchamal, to talk about psychology education with the President and Vice-President of Charmo University. Since one of the greatest constraints to delivering quality mental health and psychosocial support services to the survivors of ISIS, we are investing in building the skills of future psychologists and service providers. You can’t visit [...]
Thanks to support from Mercury One and the Nazarene Fund, in the month of December, we are helping transform women’s lives through our knitting program! Our first knitting sales resulted in 30 displaced women receiving an income to provide for their families. The women who participated were thrilled and inspired to knit the next batch, and [...]
SEED officially launched its first knitting sales in a holiday bazaar sponsored by Mercury One and Rotana Hotel, giving the women in our program their first income. We were lucky to have Babylon FM’s Noor and Angel B live auction some of the survivor-made goods! Each gift contained a card describing the program and the [...]
SEED was very pleased to have Holly Aldrich and Barbara Hamm with us from the US, bringing with them decades of experience working with victims of violence and other traumatic events. The primary goal of their visit was to participate as technical advisors on our Board for the Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support [...]
SEED's President, Sherri Kraham Talabany, was interviewed on Babylon FM earlier today, to launch SEED's December Campaign 'Life Changing Donations'
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...
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 [...]
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 [...]