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Women-focused civil society organizations estimate that at least twenty percent of the female population in Iraq has either no formal identity or has serious impediments in proving their identity.
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Children in Basra, in southern Iraq, face numerous impediments to their education, from overcrowded classrooms to the lack of hygienic washrooms, desks and teaching aids.
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In 1999, Ari Hishyar Sedeq Hassan moved to Germany where he worked in a bakery in the small town of Gronau, producing Black Forest Rye Bread, cinnamon buns, and Kaiser Rolls.
![Baghdad Mechanic Ahmed Hamoody repairs an auto air conditioning motor with assistance from an employee Baghdad Mechanic Ahmed Hamoody repairs an auto air conditioning motor with assistance from an employee](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_150x150/public/success_story/mechnic_0.jpg?itok=5aBrilfQ)
Amid all the uncertainties of modern Iraq there is one immutable constant: when summer arrives temperatures in Baghdad soar to more than 120º F and stay there for several months.
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Kindergarteners Omar and Zahra’a remember the day their friend Hassan was killed by a passing car while playing on a neighborhood street.
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