FYF Continues to Help Survivors Access Reparations
FYF’s protection team is continuing their outreach to survivors of ISIS captivity to enable them to apply for reparations under the Yezidi Survivors Law. This week, they met with Sara (name changed to protect identity), a 16 year old Yezidi girl who was abducted with her brother on August 3rd, 2014. Eventually separated from her brother, Sara tried many times to escape captivity.
After 5 years of suffering the horrors of ISIS’ daily violence, Sara managed to escape and return to her family, who now live in a displacement camp in the Kurdistan region.
Sara discussed the importance of FYF’s work with survivors:
“After the suffering I endured during those years of injustice and torture, the Free Yezidi Foundation team helped me greatly with the process of applying to the Yezidi Survivors Law. They informed me about the law and helped me apply, so I did not need to travel to the General Directorate of Survivors’ Affairs in Mosul. I am very pleased that they have assisted me in the application process and helped me obtain my rights and benefits from the Yezidi Survivors Law. I also thank the foundation for their kindness to me.”
