Intertrust present SOVEM with a cheque;
Credit: SOSVEM
Intertrust Luxembourg has raised €3,000 for an SOS Villages d’Enfants Monde (SOSVEM) programme for displaced children from northern Iraq.
Intertrust Luxembourg has been supporting SOSVEM since 2010. Most recently, the company presented Anne Schweizer, Partnerships Manager of SOSVEM, a cheque for €3,000 on the occasion of a Happy Hour. This donation replaced the gifts planned for the guests of an Intertrust Luxembourg event.
The sum will be allocated to the SOSVEM support programme for children traumatised by the war in Iraq in their reconstruction process.
Following the presentation of the project at the cheque-giving ceremony, Anne Schweizer thanked the management and all employees of Intertrust for their donation: "I thank you wholeheartedly for your renewed confidence and your real commitment to this important project for traumatised children in the north of Iraq for whom every day is a challenge". As for the company's corporate social responsibility (CSR) team, she stressed "the importance of committing to give the younger generations the means to rebuild themselves and to forge real plans for the future". In Iraq, millions of people including countless children are still in need of humanitarian assistance.
Active in Iraqi Kurdistan since 2016, SOS Children's Villages continues its work in the areas of child protection, mental health, psychosocial and social cohesion. With the support of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Luxembourg association SOSVEM has been supporting a project since September 2018 for displaced communities in Mosul and those still living in camps near Erbil.
For its part, SOS Children's Villages Iraq is involved in two Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps where it provides teaching recovery techniques sessions for young people who have had the traumatic experience of war while accompanying parents and guardians. In addition, recreational psychosocial activities are offered within child-friendly spaces and visits are provided to support individual families. Teachers, volunteers and members of host communities are also involved in this programme.
