My House was demolished along with windows and doors. I'm in debt and I've no job or salary. There's no construction for the houses, no windows. In 1 week I spend 150,000 IQD for reconstruction. We need a salary for our children to allow us rebuild our house.”

The people who work everyday, I've asked them how they get work, they tell me, I have a connection. Even the people who clean the streets, from Erbil Municipality, want a person from each tent, but yet they don't allow us to work because they choose the people that they want to work. I don't mind working as a cleaner, it's not a shameful thing, but yet they don't allow me to work."

They've given us thick blankets for the middle of summer. How are we supposed to use them in this heat? We need a thin blanket to protect us from mosquitos. It's so cheap to buy these, less than 1000iqd. The thick blankets are terrible quality, they're the cloth of the donkey."

We don't have a hospital here in East Mosul. We have to travel to West Mosul. Sometimes when a woman is in labour they have to take her in West Mosul and some of them are dying. Last week a child was born outside of the clinic here, and the next day he died."

The people who work everyday, I've asked them how they get work, they tell me, I have a connection. Even the people who clean the streets, from Erbil Municipality, want a person from each tent, but yet they don't allow us to work because they choose the people that they want to work. I don't mind working as a cleaner, it's not a shameful thing, but yet they don't allow me to work."

Now we have to buy sugar oil, lentils and beans because they're not giving it to us anymore. It used to be every 15 days, for 1 year they slowly cut down on the supplies, now it's been 4 months since we've received anything."

There are 90 students in the class. Some of the students site on the floor. We need schools, especially high-schools. The teachers in our schools are volunteers. They don't get money and they don't have a degree. Sometimes they only know how to read and write, but this is not a real education. Our children need education. During ISIS the students refused to go to school as all they would learn about was jihad. Now that ISIS have left the children are past the age limit to attend school. These boys need education."

Water here is very dirty. During ISIS, the water had sulphur in it. People died because of that. There is not good water to drink. The organisation after that they changed the pipes water is clean of sulphur but still full of calcium. Every 3 days, the water is cut off. Once it was even cut off for a month. During that time we had to buy water from outside."

85% of students from the school in the old city (Makasb Elementry School) failed. The school has 900 students and almost all of them have failed their final exams. There are not enough teachers, and they are not even qualified. The level of education is nowhere near where it was before ISIS."

I didn't even finish elementary school because of the war and everything that happened. I can't even read or write. I can't go back to school now because I'm 24 and too old for school. Before the war, I was in the 11th grade but now I've had to leave school to help my family. Now I'm too old to return to school, they won't accept me."

There was a dog next to the Camp Management office and when I went there to complain about the gas supply for cooking. The people there were inside the caravans laughing at me and the dog was outside about to bite me. I was enclosed in by the fence there."

We have a health clinic, Om Qura. They opened it WASL-TASL opened it 3 months ago and it has everything we need, ultrasound, blood testing etc. The government then asked them to give the clinic to them. They asked the government to provide people to work in the clinic but the government refused. So now the government won't let us open the clinic."

Now there is only the mobile clinic that comes once or twice a week. It's from the Red Cross. They don't have basic medicines for fever and things like that. They don't have medicine for life-time illnesses and chronic diseases. They ask us to get medicine from private clinics, and they charge us money, we can't afford it. A lot of the people in this neighbourhood have cancer and there is no chemotherapy available in the hospital here. It costs $600 for chemotherapy in the public hospital."

We cannot drink the water that comes from the water tanks as the water is full of calk. One organisation provided us with a 100 litre tank, but this isn't enough for us. It is too small, it's used up within 2 hours. We need a 1000 litre tank. The water causes health issues here like kidney stones."

There are boys here who want to work. When they organisations come, they bring their own workers with them. But we want to work, we are ready and able. Why don't the organisations hire us for the labour?"

Water here is good but the problem is that it's far. We have to walk a long distance to get gerrycans of water. We are not allowed to have a pipe from the source to our tents. From 8 to 12 the water is on, then it is cut until 3, before going back off again on 6. The gerrycans are all broken so they leak the whole way home. Even if we wanted to buy new ones, the camp management don't allow us."

Leave everything else aside, and focus on this. This is the most important thing here. For example, they put people in prison based on if they like you or not. For example, if I don't like you I go to the police and tell them you are ISIS. Then they will come and take you away. Each person in jail don't even have a tile to stand on, not even space to lie down to sleep. They're packed into a cell, without any investigation or anything."

Leave everything else aside, and focus on this. This is the most important thing here. They are putting people in prison based on if they like you or not. For example, if I don't like you I go to the police and tell them you were inISIS. Then they will come and take you away. Each person in jail doesn't even have a tile to stand on, not even space to lie down to sleep. They're packed into a cell, without any investigation, trial, or anything."

In Khazer camp they receive food supplies every 15 days. Here, they have cut off the sugar and the salt. WFP have reduced the supplies to Mercy Hands. If the number of people was 8 people we would get double the amount of food. Now even for families of over 10 it's still one basket of food. I've tried to complain about this to camp management, but they won't accept the complaints."

Because the blankets are such bad quality one of my children had scabies. The kerosine hasn't come for the last 4 months and as you know our families are quite large. Even when it came, it was never enough for us. Imagine what it's like now. The distribution is based on the number of people inside the tent, not the number of people in the family. There should be a better way to distribute the kerosene."

Because the blankets are such bad quality one of my children had scabies. The kerosine hasn't come for the last 4 months and as you know our families are quite large. Even when it came it was never enough for us. Imagine what it's like now. The distribution is based on the number of people inside the tent, not the number of people in the family."

Because of the Old City, we have a problem, we don't have a job. Either we rent a house, or go to the camps and live there. The gov don't give us money to help us rebuild our house. Even if they gave us the materials to reconstruct we could do it, instead of waiting for them to send people. One organisation even gave us materials for new doors and other materials, but the quality was awful. The doors were so bad that as soon as you open them, it breaks in your hand. If they gave us the money we would buy high quality materials. We need financial aid from the government."

One very good thing to ensure people are not taken advantage of. My brother and his sons, one of them has a master in Arabic, the other a masters in Agriculture, the other is an Architectural Engineer. None of them have jobs, one works in an organisation. Another works in a copy shop, while the 3rd sells drinks on the street. He has an Engineering degree and he is selling water on the streets. The government and the humanitarian organisations don't give them any opportunities to work, even when they are highly educated. The one who has a masters in Arabic, he is a street cleaner. "