If we look at the immediate issue, we had a team that went there last week. We go there regularly working with the local church and the way it's happening, there are two things.
First the Kurdistan—since you've been there, I'm sure you will appreciate this—is a world in itself. It really is a totally different, foreign, but within Iraq, kind of society. What that means is that the people who are refugees there now are not Kurds. They don't speak Kurdish. They don't even know the culture of Kurdistan. They cannot integrate into the Kurdistan society. Actually the Kurds don't necessarily want them there, either. We're starting to see some tension.
Last week it came out very clearly. They were very welcoming at first. There were 120,000 to 150,000 people showing up like this at their door. It was quite something to accommodate. Just think about the hygiene itself. Just think of washing yourselves, just the clothes. People got there with absolutely nothing. Within 30 minutes, their life was shattered, last August 7. They just had to flee with just their lives, without even a change of shirts or underpants or what have you. This is how critical it was.
At first, people were really fine, saying, “You can come.” There's an unfinished shopping mall. I don't know if you had a chance to visit it. There were many churches, schools that welcomed all the people. But you know, the Kurds are saying, “Well if you cannot come to our schools”—and they can't because they don't speak the language, they don't have the same curriculum—“you have to get out now; our school has to start.” So thousands of people are now having to find another place to stay.
At that mall, after three months, they've been told that at the end of November they have get out. That's another few thousand people who have to find another place to stay because the Kurds say, “I have to finish my mall here; I have a business to run.” It's like this.
Then there are a lot of privileges among the Kurdish people. They're helping their people and their friends. The others, well, you get the crap. Then you'll get that aid from organizations like ours or others that are there to help out through other means. So already there are tensions. We see it on the ground.
The other thing is that the people want to go back home. At the same time, they know they can't. What we see happening is that right now there is a need with winter coming up. Of course the winters there are not like here. But nevertheless when you're used to 40-degree weather and then you're moving to a freezing point, it's hard. People have no clothes. They have nothing and we need to equip, so that's a temporary thing.
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