Tigris Center

Our programs are focused on education, mental health support, life skills training, and small-scale aid distribution. We have tried to decrease the gap between foreign and local teachers, and we have a local staff assisting in managing the daily classes.

The educational programs focus on Arabic and Kurdish literacy, English courses, practical children’s courses (sports, art, drawing, life lessons, etc.) and specialized tutoring courses (helping a student on a subject they struggle with in school, especially 12th grade).

Mental health support happens most times in the form of one-on-one classes, but also in a class setting. In the class setting, the teacher will teach life lessons on the value of people, handling money, etc. In a one-on-one setting, the teacher is usually helping a student work through sensitive issues that aren’t appropriate for a class setting.

Life skills training currently is only focused on cooking and baking classes.

Small-scale aid distribution – as we go and visit poor families, we at times take small gifts of food or household items along. Some of these families receive this gift on a somewhat regular basis, others receive it as a one-time gift. Some of these family gifts come out of the Widows and Survivors Fund, some out of the Tigris Fund, and still others from other foreigners working here that want to help our contacts. Usually once a winter, we do a kerosene distribution of around $350.

If you share with the Tigris Center Fund, your donations will go towards our local staffs’ wages, rent, utilities, books, and other practical things needed to support the community center as we carry out the programs above through the love of Christ.