Sister Naddaf’s organisation, working in partnership with Unhcr (United Nations High Commission for the Refugees), also provides women’s training schemes. "Many children goes on the Mother Superior are attending the Syrian schools, but many others are forced to work to help their families, often lacking a father". "People with no country or future", states mgr. Francois Yakan, vicar of the Patriarchate of the Chaldeians in Turkey, with reference to the thousands of Iraqi refugees living in the country, waiting to leave again for some other destination in search of shelter. Mgr. Yakan asks "the European institutions to engage in a serious reflection and find a fair, dignified solution to this humanitarian emergency", which, according to Unhcr, "is the worst in the Middle East since 1948". "At this time of Lent goes on the vicar , I would like to recall Jesus’s words: if you have given shelter to only one of these little ones, you will have given shelter to me". About 40 thousand Iraqi refugees are living in the EU, and Unhcr has made an appeal to take at least another 20 thousand.
