World In Need - WIN
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We started our work as a direct response to the urgent needs of the Kurds who were gassed by Saddam Hussein in Iraqi Kurdistan. With the clear understanding that western help needs to be locally sensitive and to empower local people to find local ways of making changes in their own culture. Since then, our teams have helped victims of the earthquake disaster in Turkey, slum children in Delhi, drug addicts in Thailand, "Smokey mountain" rubbish dump dwellers in northern Philippines, Borana nomads in Kenya, Fulani and Hausa peoples in Nigeria. We have given aid in Kosovo, started work with orphans in Uganda, helped develop jobs in Mombasa, and assisted the refugees in Azerbaijan. This has grown into a movement working in some 20 countries, encouraging and empowering those who seek to make a difference where they live, and to own their own development work.
