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Rome, Italy, Aug 26, 2014 \/ 02:37 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- As summer comes to a close and colder temperatures approach, Iraqi refugees will increasingly rely upon the international community to meet their needs, an aid worker on the ground in Kurdistan said.<\/p>\n

\tKris Ozar, head of programming for Catholic Relief Service Egypt, has been traveling back and forth from Erbil, where CRS is working to help the refugees there who are in great need.<\/p>\n

\tOzar voiced concern that public authorities lack a plan for the internally displaced persons.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cNobody knows what to do at the moment, but there are 1.2 million internally displaced persons, according to United Nations data,\u201d he told CNA Aug. 20. \u201cThese people are in need of everything. They don\u2019t just need food clothing, water, food, i.e. the essential needs. We should remember that winter is coming and that they cannot sleep in the open air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tMore than 70,000 Christians have been displaced to Erbil from their homes in Mosul, Bakhdida, and other towns in Nineveh Province by the advent of the Islamic State, a recently established caliphate that has persecuted all non-Sunnis in its territory, which extends across swaths of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

\tOzar recounted his experience in Erbil: \u201cI saw tens of thousands of people sleeping under the open sky, in fear. They sleep in precarious hygienic conditions, they fear everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe described the people who have fled as \u201cfamilies, normal people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAmong the people he met in Erbil was a man named Bashar. Like many other, Bashar now sleeps on the ground, possessing nothing but the clothes he was wearing when he fled his home. He has collaborated with CRS on several occasions and shared a video on his phone of the 10-hour journey to Erbil. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tOzar explained that \u201cCatholic Relief Service is providing short term, mid-term and long term assistance. For the long term, we must build shelters for these people, since winter is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHowever, the agency will not be able to provide the necessary aid without international help.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe need funds,\u201d he stressed. \u201cWe need 7 million dollars to be able to provide supplies as well as a shelter, but we need the international community to immediately transfer the money, to let us work. Help is needed now.\u201d
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