Continuing the activities of the “With Dialogue We Endure and Rise” camp, the participants of the program reached the city of Al-Faw, in the southernmost part of Iraq.
This marked their fourth stop in Basra Governorate, where the Citizenship Education Camp on Dialogue and Understanding Others began its activities under the hospitality of Mr. Ismail Habib Talib, one of the city’s notables.
At dawn, the campers visited Al-Lisan Al-Bahri in Al-Faw, where fishing boats arriving from the Arabian Gulf gather each morning to display their catch in a market known as Al-Naga’a.
During their tour, the participants learned about the types of marine fish caught in Iraq’s territorial waters, which serve as a source of income for the city’s residents and sustain their local economy, despite the primitive fishing methods, lack of regulation, and weak environmental protection measures both in the market and in Iraq’s marine environment.
The camp includes a select group of youth from Sinjar, Baghdad, and Basra, and is implemented by Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development in partnership with KAICIID and the House of Coexistence.
The program represents the launch of an experiential initiative in peaceful coexistence, where participants engage in dialogues, receive training, visit religious, educational, and media institutions, and meet with cultural and religious figures, community leaders, and policymakers in these cities. The initiative aims to strengthen dialogue as a mechanism for peacebuilding, rejecting hate speech, and fostering understanding of others.
