About
Who we are
It is a non-profit organization, founded in the light of the articles (10,11,12) of law No. (1) of 2011 issued by Kurdistan region of Iraq parliament, which specialized with NGOs. It aims to secure livelihoods offer the extreme poor a pathway to forge their way out of poverty. Our goal of ending extreme poverty can only be achieved by tackling poverty’s root causes. Education is at the heart of development and is key to breaking the poverty cycle, and improving health, nutrition, income and opportunities for all children and adults who do not have access to education. Many of the countries in which we are planning to work, are highly vulnerable to emergencies and shocks as a result of conflict and natural disasters. These vulnerabilities are unfortunately likely to increase in coming years as the effects of climate change worsen. Gender inequality is globally the most common form of inequality and remains a major obstacle to the eradication of poverty. Climate change is a driver of humanitarian crises and is affecting millions of people already vulnerable due to existing and ongoing challenges. We also aim to work on children protection to protect them from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect.
01Our vision for change
A world where no-one lives in poverty, fear, or oppression; where all have access to a decent standard of living and the opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy, and creative life; a world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
02Our mission
Our mission is to help people living in extreme poverty achieve major improvements in their lives which last and spread without ongoing support from AGGARTA.
To achieve this mission, we are planning to engage in long term development work, build resilience, respond to emergency situations, and seek to address the root causes of poverty through our development education, emergency, health, wash, MHPSS, protection, and livelihoods. and advocacy work.
03Our values
We focus on extreme poverty: We are driven by a clear focus on eliminating poverty in the most vulnerable places and responding to humanitarian crises.
We are committed: Going the extra mile to support communities especially minorities (Indigenous) in times of need and in the face of very difficult operating environments.
We believe in equality: People are equal in rights and must be treated with respect and dignity.
We listen: Listening and partnership are key to empowering the poorest and most vulnerable to transform their own lives.
We plan to respond rapidly: People affected by disasters are entitled to have their most basic needs met through rapid, effective, and principled responses.
We are courageous: We are planning to taking necessary risks, balanced with sound judgement, which, allows us to work in the most challenging contexts.
We are working to be innovative: Finding effective solutions requires innovative thinking combined with a pragmatic approach.
We are accountable: Accountability and transparency are central to all our actions and use of resources.
04Our history
AGGARTA for humanitarian aid was founded by Juliet D. Elia in 2023, in response to the Indigenous displaced people and Syrian refugees and vulnerable people and facing inequality in Norther of Iraq especially in the areas which was controlled by ISIS.
Due to the continues of the wars in the area, the armed conflict in Iraq was continued unabated as government forces and associated armed groups, supported by the international coalition, fight to take back control of territory captured by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) since 2014. The fighting has created additional waves of displacement as large numbers of people have been forced to flee their homes as a result of military operations to retake the cities controlled by ISIS. As of early 2017, the total number of IDPs in the country was estimated at more than 3.1 million while 11 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance. The fighting has been accompanied by wide-ranging human rights violations and breaches of international humanitarian law, in which all sides to the conflict were complicit. Iraq’s minorities, which include Armenian and Chaldo-Assyrian Christians, Bahá’í, Kaka’i, Sabean-Mandeans, Shabak, Turkmen, Yezidis and others, have been particularly targeted since the onset of the conflict in 2014. The widespread conflict caused the displacement of millions of Iraqi people (Indigenous and others).