Empowering Women
Mercy Hands is committed to empowering women across Iraq. Our work spans a wide range of initiatives, from expanding access to quality education and healthcare to promoting women's leadership in peacebuilding efforts. We focus on breaking down the barriers that prevent women from fully participating in society, including tackling the root causes of child marriage and providing girls with the opportunities they deserve to thrive. By centering women and girls in all that we do, we aim to build a future where every woman can live with dignity, security, and hope.
Community
Initiatives
Women are at the heart of our community work and are present at every stage of our projects. Women's voices guide our programs, ensuring that our initiatives are rooted in the needs and strengths of the community.
We are committed to ending violence against women and girls. That's why we're improving referral pathways for shelters, holding awareness raising sessions with community leaders and training front-line workers on prevention and response.
Ending
Violence Against
Women
The key to achieving equality is education. That's why we support school-aged girls in accessing and finishing school across Iraq.
Girls'
Education
Skills
Training
Vocational and skills-based training can lift women out of poverty and help them provide for their families and communities. We have been delivering ICT training, coding skills, sewing, handicraft training and more to women across Iraq.
Climate
Action
We work with women to strengthen their resilience to the impacts of climate change and resource scarcity and to find sustainable farming solutions.
We're committed to realising the UN's Sustainable Development Goal of ending child marriage by 2030. We advocate for an end to child marriage in Iraq, through awareness raising, dialogues with community leaders and more.
Preventing
Child Marriage
Promoting
Peace
Women and girls continue to be disproportionately affected by conflict - that's why we're committed to building and sustaining peace, placing women at the forefront of these efforts.
We're committed to improving women's health in Iraq - and true health means more than treating the body. We’re empowering women through medical care and essential mental health and psychosocial support, building stronger, healthier futures.
Women's
Health
Research
We are committed to continuously researching the most effective interventions for women across Iraq. Research is central to our work, enabling us to deliver the most urgently needed support to the most vulnerable communities.
