In a stifling hot office with more flies than oxygen, Rzgar Abed does not hesitate when asked about the biggest challenge in managing the camp for Iraq’s internally displaced people (IDPs).
"Space ... we're at 31,000 and that is our capacity. Thirty-one thousand," said Abed, who works for the Barzani Charity Foundation.
It oversees a number of camps, populated by 1.4 million Iraqi IDPs fleeing fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the Kurdish region.
That number is set to double within a month, with an additional 1.5 million people expected to flee when the operation to take back Mosul from (ISIL) starts in mid-October.
As it is, conditions in the Dibaga camp are already cramped - each tent can only hold up to six people.
Families fled from their villages under the control of ISIL, also known as ISIS, and have kept on leaving, even though some of those villages have since been liberated.
Most are only within 10km to 50km of their homes.
More than half of the camp population are children. They flow through the camps, running between tents and climbing anything they can........http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/09/crisis-15-million-expected-flee-mosul-160928191736825.html
29/9/16
"Space ... we're at 31,000 and that is our capacity. Thirty-one thousand," said Abed, who works for the Barzani Charity Foundation.
It oversees a number of camps, populated by 1.4 million Iraqi IDPs fleeing fighters belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the Kurdish region.
That number is set to double within a month, with an additional 1.5 million people expected to flee when the operation to take back Mosul from (ISIL) starts in mid-October.
As it is, conditions in the Dibaga camp are already cramped - each tent can only hold up to six people.
Families fled from their villages under the control of ISIL, also known as ISIS, and have kept on leaving, even though some of those villages have since been liberated.
Most are only within 10km to 50km of their homes.
More than half of the camp population are children. They flow through the camps, running between tents and climbing anything they can........http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/09/crisis-15-million-expected-flee-mosul-160928191736825.html
29/9/16
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