FYF provides an environment for children to be safe and enjoy enriching activities, despite their harsh environment. As survivors and witnesses to the 2014 genocide living in protracted displacement, Yezidi children require specialized care to promote healing and long-term resilience. In addition, FYF safe spaces for children liberate Yezidi women, who can then pursue education or employment.

FYF is a women-led organisation which priorities services by and for Yezidi women. These services range from education, training, human rights awareness, legal guidance, combatting GBV, and skills provision. FYF seeks support in order to implement and oversee a wide range of activities to benefit Yezidi women, including those recovering from genocide and sexual enslavement.

At the Bakery Training Center Yezidi women each year learn the basic skills of working in a bakery, while earning a basic wage. In addition, trainees receive basic business and mathematics classes to boost their skill sets and aid in their employment searches in the future. Regardless of the industry in which they choose to work, each trainee leaves the Bakery Training Center with the experience and confidence to participate as empowered economic actors. FYF seeks funding to support this effort.

The Enterprise & Training Center (ETC) houses an assortment of initiatives, projects, and centers to empower Yezidis, with a focus on Yezidi women. Through activities, trainings, and enterprise opportunities, participants have the chance to develop tools, improve their economic prospects, collect relevant information, and begin earning income. This innovative livelihoods campus is designed to provide targeted, useful education and skills training for Yezidis, especially women.

This effort will support Free Yezidi Foundation as we seek justice and accountability for crimes committed by ISIS against Yezidis of Iraq. Thousands of Yezidi women and children were kidnapped in august 2014, men were killed. women and girls were sold as sex slaves in Iraqi and Syrian markets and subjected to unspeakable rape, abuse, and psychological torment. They want their day in court!

FYF's Sugar is Sweet bakery & cafe are located outside a displacement camp in Iraq for tens of thousands of Yezidis: survivors of genocide perpetrated by ISIS. Many families come to enjoy cakes, cookies, and drinks. But some families cannot provide birthdays for their children. This project will fund a birthday party for a boy or girl and ten of his/her friends. Life in an IDP camp is challenging, and it is psychologically imperative that youth have some happy days in their childhood.