Youth - Iraq's Future

Iraq's population in the next generation will increase from 27 to 45 million.

Ladies group meet USAID Mission and US Army General to explain their project





Farmers sons clean feed troughs in canal.




Fathers pass down their knowledge of farming along with their hope and aspirations of a better life.

Tractor operators

The youth need education how to better use their country's resources

Will Iraq have the capacity to feed, cloth and shelter its future population?

The old remember this as the land of bread, milk and honey

and have passed on their traditions of hospitality.
and traditions of enterprise.

The markets have reopened with shoppers returning in the cool of the evenings.

Farmers bring local produce of potatoes as this pickup load that will bring $30 for a seasons labor

Many farm homes and buildings have been damaged by the war




Other homes and families have prospered



















State sponsored ear corn processing facility.

Iraq does have resources. The question is how can the Iraqis be helped to make the best use of limited resources to support its growing population?

Date trees along the Euphrates River

Wheat harvested, then straw baled to be followed with potatoes