What we do
We teach women in refugee camps to make herbal products for their own use and to earn income. We also train women refugee leaders to teach our workshops in their communities.
Our projects
We run a project in the Palabek refugee settlement in Uganda in collaboration with the UNHCR Uganda. We also ran a project for 12 months in three refugee camps in Kurdistan Iraq.
The workshops
Women learn by doing in our workshops, and they keep all of the products that they make. Products are chosen by the women based on their needs – for example, remedies for pain, burns and wounds. 702 women have benefitted in 2023-2024.
THEY ARE ENTHUSIASTIC
The Uganda project
In the Palabek refugee settlements in Uganda we are collaborating with the UNHCR and we plan to do five projects at the same time:
- Workshops where a clinical herbalist teaches women how to make herbal products
- Train women refugee leaders in teaching our workshops in their communities
- Create a Herbal data bank for the women
- Add value to existing herbal products produced by beekeepers
- Produce essential oils for developing a mosquito repellent but malaria is 44% of all diseases in the area
COULDN’T BE HAPPIER WITH HER OINTMENT
Terrific course!
Bahar Mirza lives in the Esyan refugee camp in Kurdistan. She is 47 years old. She grew up in Sinjar district in Iraq but the ISIS invasion in 2014 forced her to flee along with her family. She spends her days taking care of household work and tending a number of sheep she owns. This is what Bahar has to say about the ointment course of Anna Rósa: „To me it was absolutely terrific. Something I had never experienced before. On top of that I could keep the ointment we made. I love this ointment.“
THEY WANT TO LEARN MORE
What’s the impact in Kurdistan Iraq?
- 652 women in three refugee camps attended our workshops.
- We gave away 687 herbal products – for example, remedies for pain, burns and wounds.
- The authorities in Kurdistan Iraq stopped this project after 12 months. According to them it was too dangerous to teach uneducated women how to make Chamomile ointment and herbal teas. The women could possibly harm themselves and others with this sort of knowledge.
- We are still trying to find ways to continue with this project.
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