Rugby is a sport that is hardly known in Iraq, nor in the Kurdistan
region. There is not even one rugby pitch in the country. Yet now a
group of mainly expats playing rugby has set up a campaign to help
refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kurdistan.
“Rugby for Refugees” is the title of the campaign set up to collect
money for this cause, said Neil Young, who works for a logistics company
in the Kurdistan region capital Erbil. “We want to raise the profile of
their needs through rugby, and get as much money as we can through
sponsors and donations,” he told Rudaw.
The Kurdistan region houses about 2 million refugees and IDPs from
Syria, the Yezidi region of Iraq and other areas taken over by ISIS.
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