FYF Celebrates International Women’s Day
Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF) marked International Women’s Day to highlight the achievements of Yezidi women and promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. As a civil society organization, our main mission is to provide humanitarian services for Yezidi survivors and for Yezidi women and children, with a special focus on trauma recovery and psychological services, economic empowerment, community reintegration, and education.
On this day, FYF celebrates women around the world and salutes those working to advance women’s rights and equality. At the same time, there are still more than 2,700 Yezidi women and children who remain unaccounted for after the Yezidi Genocide. We will never cease our efforts to find those still alive and identify the remains of those who were killed.
FYF, as a Yezidi women-led organization, held two activities to celebrate 8th of March:
1. FYF Bakery and Training Center staff in Khanke participated in creating creative, delicious freshly baked sweets and cakes as a theme for the International Women’s Day celebration. The FYF bakery provides economic empowerment andis a Yezidi-run bakery by and for Yezidi women. The bakery instructor is Yezidi, most staff members are Yezidi women, and all trainees are Yezidi women. Customers of all ethnicities and backgrounds are warmly welcomed to come with respect and a spirit of friendship to our people.
2. FYF staff members from different projects implemented in Khanke participated in a web activity to create and share mutual support, point out the positive traits of their peers, and the inspiration and motivation they give and provide for each other. Their empowerment led to the creation of the strong, unbreakable ‘web’ which metaphorically means the creation of a strong and unbreakable organizational structure. As a result, together, they agreed to the quote of the day:
