Sunday will mark the first day of aid distribution, provided by Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani, to Yazidi survivors of Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities.

The aid campaign is set to launch in Duhok’s Sharia camp, were scores of Yazidi survivors reside.

Speaking to The New Region on Sunday, advisor to PM Barzani Harman Mirza Bag said that a specialized committee has been formed and Yazidi survivors can benefit from the aid through that committee which will be distributing the aid on a monthly basis.

The aid campaign, set to launch from this month, will benefit 3,575 Yazidi individuals who have survived ISIS atrocities.

The aid distribution will continue in Khanke on Monday, and start in Sheikhan and Deraboon in the following days.

A total of 6,417 Yazidi children and women were captured by ISIS in their August 2014 attack on Sinjar.

While the group took the Yazidi women and children, the Yazidi men in Sinjar were mass murdered at the hands of the terror group.

To date, only 3,576 of those taken captive by the group have been rescued and brought back to Iraq.

Iraq passed the Yazidi Survivors’ Law in 2021, the first step by the Iraqi government recognizing the Yazidi genocide.

However, the Yazidi community in the country still suffers to return home to Sinjar, the Yazidi heartland.

The presence of PKK-linked groups, have for years prevented the town from returning to stability, and has put to halt the landmark Sinjar agreement aiming to rehabilitate the Yazidi community in Sinjar.

While many Yazidi women are still missing with their whereabouts unclear to everyone, many Yazidi families still struggle inside camps in the Kurdistan Region, where home is too unstable to go back to, and their stay seems to be cut short by attempts from the Iraqi government to repatriate them back to their hometown.