1 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,280 I’ll never forget the image of those animals taking away the women and girls. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,480 You don't need to be a victim to understand how that feels. 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,960 Our lives have been destroyed. The children are afraid to sleep. 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:21,480 That's why I only sleep a few hours. I lie awake till dawn. 5 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:43,200 It was terrible. We saw young men who got shot in the head. 6 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:52,120 I wanted to die myself. That was preferable to facing this pain. 7 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,320 We've seen them hurt people. 8 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:02,360 My son fainted when he saw me.... 9 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:08,200 getting hit on my back and shoulder with the butt of a rifle. 10 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,040 One of them kept hitting me. That's why I have three damaged vertebra. 11 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:25,640 We shouldn't have come back. 12 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:31,640 If you go to Sinjar now, with all those mass graves.... 13 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,080 Only God knows how many there are. 14 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,920 In Sinjar depression is very common for everybody. 15 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,840 Most of them are traumatized. Traumatized because of cases of rape. 16 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,880 Some of them were kidnapped by ISIS and returned. 17 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,080 Some of them lost members of their families. 18 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,520 We call it accumulative trauma. 19 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,800 Because the trauma happened during the ISIS invasion and when they returned. 20 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:05,680 When they see they have no house anymore, they have no family and no job. 21 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:30,680 I stayed inside for two months, in the dark, with the curtains closed. 22 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:36,680 They'd call for me to come outside and join them. But I was afraid to. 23 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,560 I shut the door, closed the curtains, turned off the light and sat in the dark. 24 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:49,560 Thank God I take medication every night. 25 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,440 Otherwise I'd have long gone insane. 26 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,640 That's why we decided to hire social workers from the community... 27 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,720 train them well on how to talk to the people that need help. 28 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:08,240 We don't want to give them medication and go, that's it. We want to really help them. 29 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,840 The social worker collects the cases that needs the intervention of psychiatrists... 30 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,920 and she'll refer the cases to him. He supervises the whole process. 31 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 They say: Leave the house, talk with others. 32 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,440 Get rid of negative thoughts. 33 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,680 Turn over a new leaf. 34 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,560 I feel good. 35 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:35,040 As long as I take my medication, I feel at ease. 36 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,720 Most important is that the women and girls get freed from ISIS. 37 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,880 And that Sinjar becomes safe again. 38 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,160 If that happens, we'll overcome this. 39 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,600 When you see the number of beneficiaries is rising... 40 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,800 that more people would like to come and talk to share their stories... 41 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,120 we consider this as a good impact on the community. 42 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:25,240 So we wish that we get more support, more funds, that we can provide more services... 43 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,920 and continue more with these kind of services.