Wednesday, January 4, 2017

 

The Chaldo-Assyrian Youth organization started the campaign of cleaning and preparing the Chaldo- Assyrian Syriac towns and villages in Nineveh plains area with help from the Assyrian aid Society-Iraq and the Iraqi Christian Relief Council. The union’s campaign started on Wednesday December 4, 2016 from Telisquf with the participation of Mrs. Eileen Gewargis; secretary of the union, members of the executive committee of the union; Sanay Kaddo, Robert Nawzad, Pharis Lewis and other members of the union and our people. Also in the attendance was Mr. Sahhir Kalla Person in charge of the local Alqush ZAOA Committee, Captain Sallam Enwiyah from Nineveh Protection Units, a number of NPUs fighters who had the permission to participate in this campaign and protect it. Mr. Wilson Esha a singer from diaspora also took part in this campaign.

 

This campaign will continue to include other towns and villages in Nineveh plains; Batnaya, Baqufa, Bartella, Bakhdeda and Karimlish to support, albeit morally, our displaced people to go home to their towns and stay and live there. Mrs. Eileen said that the decision to participation in the campaign was unanimous by the executive committee of the union to encourage all members of the union to take part in this campaign. She added that the main objective of the campaign in to clean all prepare our villages for residences to come back and erase any traces that ISIS terror operations had left there. She also emphasized that this campaign with expand to include all our peoples villages and towns. Mrs. Gewargis thanked the AASI, the Iraqi Christian Relief Council and the Assyrian National Council of Illinois for their help to implement this project also she thanked ADM and Nineveh Protection Units for obtaining the required permeations to implement this campaign and protecting the participants as well. At the end, she thanked all the participants in the implementation of the project.