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The Bring Hope Humanitarian Foundation (BHHF), is a humanitarian organization with the primary objective of providing aid to save lives, alleviate suffering, as well as to give the most vulnerable group such as refugee children, hope for the future. BHHF has provided humanitarian aid since 1999 with short-term and long-term help to homeless refugees, victims of natural disasters, wars and famines, cancer patients, and poor people. The help has intensified since 2014 because of the refugees and IDPs in Iraqi Kurdistan. BHHF's projects include humanitarian aid, football programs, sewing projects, cultural programs, musical education, mobile hospitals, the distribution of medications, medical treatment abroad and agriculture projects.

BHHF helps alleviate the suffering of refugees and internally displaced people of Iraqi-Kurdistan with regular medical aid. Since 2015, 0.5 million refugees have been helped with 90 loads distributed across 53 refugee camps. Twenty of these loads of medical drugs and medical equipment were donated and distributed, mostly in collaboration with BHHF's international and local partners, to the camps across Kurdistan within the Duhok, Sinjar, Erbil, Sulaymaniya, Kirkuk and Halabja provinces.

BHHF's main medical partner, IHP (International Health Partners) based in the Netherlands donates 90% of all medical drugs and ensures these are not expired, meaning they are effective which is a necessity since many of the refugees living in the camps have been affected by war, disease and infections. A wide range of medical drugs, from painkillers to surgical supplies and household supplies such as gauze, plasters, and surgical rubber gloves to allergy medication and medical aid to fight off migraines and nausea, as well as psychological and cancer pharmaceutical drugs, are distributed. All of the medical equipment has been and continues to be donated by western medical companies from the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, and Canada.

In March 2016, several mobile hospitals were purchased by UNFPA, these hospitals were delivered by BHHF from Holland to UNFPA staff on the ground around Mosul. In December 2016, 5 more mobile hospitals were purchased by UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), and BHHF facilitated the delivery into Iraqi Kurdistan and into the refugee camps.

BHHF is partnered with FAI Mission, Free Burma Rangers, DAMA, ADRA, Heevie, and One World Medical Mission, as well as many clinics and hospitals, and provides them with needed medications, free of charge, and medical equipment. BHHF has served Hassan Sham U2, Mam-Rash camp, Sinjar Mountain, Shariya, Bartala, and many other clinics and hospitals in Sulaimaniyah, Mosul, Kirkuk, Erbil, and Duhok.

BHHF also works to create mental health rehabilitation initiatives, and is committed to partnering with healthcare practitioners to ensure those in the refugee camps receive the care and treatment needed.

BHHF's Founder:

BHHF was founded by Dr. Mariwan Baker who also serves as its president. Dr. Baker has been involved in various humanitarian efforts since the 1990’s. A PhD graduate from Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, he has Master’s Degrees in Physicist and Medical Physicist in radiation cancer therapy.

Dr. Baker was born in Sulaimaniyah, a city in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq on 25 May 1973 at the height of the oil crisis. As a result of the Kuwait war, he became a Kurdish refugee, trapped in the mountain area between Iraq and Iran. At age 19, following this struggle for survival he managed to migrate to Sweden. For three years and living in eight different refugee camps outside of the city of Stockholm, he remained a refugee.

In 1995 Dr. Baker was awarded an asylum permanent residence by the Swedish Government. In 2001 he received an MSc in a joint collaboration between the University of Florida and the Royal Institute of Technology. In 2004 he received a second MSc from Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University. He received his PhD in 2016.

Dr. Baker’s life experiences had a profound impact on him personally. Seeking to create change and improve lives for others he started Bring Hope Humanitarian Foundation which was a culmination of work he started as early as 1999. As a personal witness and survivor of the 8 year Iran-Iraq war, the chemical attack on Halabja, the Kuwait war and massive Kurdish exodus during the first Gulf War, Dr. Baker sought to always provide assistance to others in need. Vowing to help those struggling, not just the social victims of poverty, but the ill and infirm, and especially vulnerable children and women, people with cancer or students whose schooling was in jeopardy for lack of funding. Dr. Baker work to aid people who were in desperate need. Since 1999 Dr. Baker’s work and focus has evolved and intensified to providing humanitarian aid to refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In 2014. Dr. Baker dedicated his full-time work to helping the 2 million refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan through the foundation of BHHF which is registered in Sweden and Kurdistan.

BHHF's Board Members and Officers: Dr. Mariwan Baker, Chairman; David Lazowski, Vice Chairman; Max Veenstra, Board Member; Leif Pramhäll, Board Member; Thomas Campbell, Board Member and Regional Manager; Nicholas Paillart, Board Member and Regional Manager; Peshraw Baker''', COO (BHHF Kurdistan) and Richard Greer, Trustee.

BHHF's Humanitarian Partners: HRIF: Humanitarian Resources International Foundation (The Netherlands); IHP: International Health Partners (UK); HPIC: Health Partners International Of Canada (Canada); Sharemercy (Norway); Hanseatic Help (Germany); Nødhjelpen (Norway); Goods for Good (UK); Compassionate Resource Warehouse (Canada); Global Outreach Doctors (USA); and Cadus (Germany).