On Her Way To Kurdistan

​     Today my daughter Claire, an Intensive Care Unit  nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago,

​...as well as other places around the globe (here in Haiti operating a make-shift pharmacy with her husband Miguel),

​           (Here being air-lifted by helicopter from Sierra Leone)

...is on her way to Kurdistan, the northern autonomous province of Iraq, to a refugee camp outside the city of Dohuk.

​   Claire will be working with MedGlobal, an international organization whose workers bring healthcare,

​....to victims of natural disasters

...displacement due to conflict

​...disease outbreak,

...and poverty or insufficient healthcare.

      Last year Claire worked with MedGlobal in Bangladesh, running one of the health clinics in a camp for the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

      Over the past several years there has been a great influx into Kurdistan of Syrians displaced by the war, Christian Iraqis targeted by ISIS, and Iraqi Yazidis, people of their own ethnicity, language and religion,

...whose girls and women were routinely kidnapped by ISIS militants and cruelly enslaved (See post from 8/18/2015, "Question It!").
    Observing the obligation of nations to grant  asylum to refugees that has been considered international law and the law of humanity since ancient times,  Kurdistan has set up a number of camps outside the city of Dohuk to accommodate these refugees and provide humanitarian aid,

...and it is in one of these camps that Claire will be providing healthcare with other MedGlobal workers for the next two weeks.
     Prayers are always appreciated, for Claire, her fellow aid workers, and the refugees.

References:
https://www.medglobal.org/kurdistanofiraq?fbclid=IwAR25UVwbTgklEjaJffTdMzUFq7IHv5925xYvgaVKwf6w3RPM4kI9EDSf4PU

https://www.iraqinews.com/features/dohuk-received-3000-refugees-recent-kurdish-iraqi-encounters/

https://www.medglobal.org/histormedglobal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_asylum