Halabja is a town in Northern Iraq. A Kurdish town in it's twentieth
      year of recovering from the infamous chemical bombardment by the Iraqi
      regime in 1988. During which more than five thousand men women and
      children were brutally murdered. A further ten thousand civilians were
      horrendously wounded many of whom suffered a slow and terrible death.
      Twenty years on and Halabja remains impoverished and neglected by it's
      own government and the international community. Children attend school as
      best they're economic situation allows. However many children must work to
      help the family maintain the basic standard of living. many sell drinks
      and snack food by the road sides where they are to often run over and
      killed by traffic. Kids play in the streets sometime lined by open sewers
      and in the wreckage of bombed buildings. Having visited Halabja twice this
      year and proposed a project to build an adventure play ground in the town
      to the towns Mayors through the community. It was accepted and land and
      planning permission given. With the support of the Kurdish Human Right
      Project and Spring Studios in London. We are raising funds to build a safe
      and exciting area where kids can play and have something they can own.
      

     Much love  Tom and Saffron