Yazidi survivors of rape,violence and forced exile are getting benefit for physical ailments, but there is a crying need for mental health careThe first thing that hits me every single time I visit the refugee camps in northern Iraq is their sheer size. Great sprawling masses of tents stretch as far as the eye can see. Just 18 months ago these vast pieces of land were domestic to no one except a handful of farmers and their sheep. Now, or thousands upon thousands of people are forced to call these grim places domestic.
There are now 16 of these monstrous canvas cities in the Kurdish region alone. It is a statistic made all the more shocking when you consider that the total population of the camps originate up a tiny proportion of Iraq’s 3.2 million internally displaced people (IDPs).
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Source: theguardian.com