RELIEF EFFORTS
Established to concentrate solely in the Middle East in response to conflict caused by ISIS, L4L-ME teams with Zalal Life, a local Christian, non-governmental organization in Kurdistan Northern Iraq to assess needs, raise support and deliver relief directly to those most in need. We invest in personal connections with the displaced families, concentrating in and around the city of Dohuk.
We know today’s relief needs and apply resources directly to meet those needs. Our critical relief efforts include providing basic needs to IDP’s and orphans including medical care, food, heating supplies, and blankets and mattresses. And our long term relief and recovery focuses on IDP’s needs for education, entrepreneurial training, and crisis counseling.
We know who to work with to meet tomorrow’s needs, teaming with local churches and clergy, mayors, camp directors, regional authorities, right up to the highest levels of government. We are in Northern Iraq with a ministry of touch and a plan for restoring hope to these our brothers and sisters.
ISIS Orphans in West Mosul
A little girl was found by Iraqi Army soldiers when they saw her walking naked in the rubble at the frontline. She was believed to be a foreigner, her parents most likely ISIS fighters killed in the battle or by suicide bomb, it was difficult for medics to determine exactly. She was given emergency medical care at a Trauma Stabilization Point with Iraqi Army medics on July 17, 2017 amid ruins of the Old City. The battle with ISIS continued in a small part of West Mosul even though it was declared liberated a week ago. Injuries from suicide bombers, grenades and snipers occurred as ISIS fighters use tunnels to continue the fierce conflict.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission at Dawdiya Camp on May 8, 2017. The refugees at the camp are mainly Yazidi IDPs who fled the massacre by ISIS on Mt. Sinjar in 2014. The team administered basic needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender emotional comfort to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosel.
Civilians fleeing ISIS Mosul
Jerry Kramer with NGO Love for the Least that cares for IDPs in camps near Dohuk visits Mosul. Civilians, many injured and weak, flee the continued battle with ISIS in West Mosul on July 3, 2017. They are brought to a trauma stabilization site near the Old City.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission at Dawdiya Camp on May 8, 2017. The refugees at the camp are mainly Yazidi IDPs who fled the massacre by ISIS on Mt. Sinjar in 2014. The team administered basic needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender emotional comfort to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosel.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission at Dawdiya Camp on May 8, 2017. The refugees at the camp are mainly Yazidi IDPs who fled the massacre by ISIS on Mt. Sinjar in 2014. The team administered basic needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender emotional comfort to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosel.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
The Yazidi live in a makeshift camp in Babilo just discovered by NGO Love for the Least. on May 12, 2017. The Yazidis were targeted starting in 2014 by ISIS in an effort to “purify” Iraq. They were the victims of persecution, massacres and genocides and remain largely unwanted by most societies. Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission. The team administered needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender comfort especially for emotional trauma and PTSD to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosul. The NGO brings acute and long-term relief to Iraqi, Syrian, Kurdish, Yazidi and all families affected by the war.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Dunya Walid, 29 years old, weeps about the loss of her husband who thought she was in their bombed home as she speaks with team member Carol Rogers Smith. He died after they fled ISIS, holding her hand and putting his wedding ring on her finger. She said to Carol “I hope I meet you in heaven. This is my story, this is my life. I love you. You are my family.” The Yazidi live in a makeshift camp in Babilo just discovered by NGO Love for the Least. on May 12, 2017. The Yazidis were targeted starting in 2014 by ISIS in an effort to “purify” Iraq. They were the victims of persecution, massacres and genocides and remain largely unwanted by most societies. Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission. The team administered needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender comfort especially for emotional trauma and PTSD to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosul. The NGO brings acute and long-term relief to Iraqi, Syrian, Kurdish, Yazidi and all families affected by the war.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Jerry Kramer with Love for the Least tenderly holds Syrian refugee Shivan Sulaiman Ibrahim who is in the end stages of dying May 11, 2017. Dr. Denise Callari on a medical mission trip examines him and suggests the most humane treatment would be palliative care to keep him comfortable and pain free. His mother Murdya Mahmood Khalil weeps as she accepts the imminent loss of her son but is grateful that people came who cared. Many of the disabled are shunned by the community and husbands abandon the family, as did Murdya’s spouse. Her other young son is showing signs of the progressive deformities as well. It is believed that marriages between close relatives may be the cause of many genetic birth defects. As a result of the conflicts many of the men were killed and it has led to these marriages. Love for the Least, a grass roots non-profit, tends to the needs at Camp Domiz. A quarter of a million people live at the camp that has become more like a sprawling city. The Syrian refugees are IDPs now living in limbo who fled ISIS.
LOVE FOR THE LEAST
Love for the Least, a grass roots Christian non-profit, leads a medical mission at Dawdiya Camp on May 8, 2017. The refugees at the camp are mainly Yazidi IDPs who fled the massacre by ISIS on Mt. Sinjar in 2014. The team administered basic needs to all faiths including health care, healing prayers and tender emotional comfort to those living in limbo as the fierce battle continues to wage in Mosel.
Civilians fleeing ISIS Mosul
An injured girl arrives at a medical trauma stabilization point near the Old City as civilians, many wounded and weak, flee the fierce battle with ISIS in West Mosul amid ruins of the city on July 6, 2017.
Share The Good News Of The Gospel
Bringing HOPE Where There Was None
We share the good news of the gospel with the least and unreached by making disciples of Jesus who make disciples (2 Tim 2:2). And by helping to meet the physical needs of the poorest of the poor. The focus has always been on relieving suffering and building new lives among orphans and widows. And now refugees. There are more than 1,000,000+ refugees from ISIS in Northern Iraq where L4L is presently serving. L4L’s particular focus areas are strategic unreached portions of East Africa and the Middle East where God is moving.
