What we do

We teach women in refugee camps to make herbal products for their own use and to earn income. We provide hands-on education as well as mentorship from a well-known herbal school.

How we do it

Helping Herbs sends a clinical herbalist to Kurdistan Iraq for hands-on training twice per year. Kurdish staff members sustain the program throughout the year. Local women receive ongoing training in clinical herbalism and mentorship.

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 health and hygiene. 525 women have benefitted in 2023.

Herbal Sisters

The project Herbal Sisters is a collaboration project with the Lotus Flower organisation. Since 2014 that organisation has run many successful projects in refugee camps in Kurdistan Iraq. The Lotus Flower staff has been a great help to Anna Rósa for which we are immensely grateful. When starting a project like ours it is a unique blessing to have the gracious support of people with such experience.

Every woman counts

You can change the life of women in the refugee camps by enabling them to get an education.