Bahdinan trip

The two day trip began 6 o clocks in the morning to Bahdinan area. The task was to plan all our activities and follow up work in the close future there so that the centers can open soon. And this means meaningful activity for youths in the area without specifying more and mentioning all the areas. The radio infrastructure was also included in the work. We visited a couple of cities among them:

Olive cultivation in Bahshiqa

Duhok city



Duhok dam

The mountain pass to Zakho. At this place the Kurdish peshmerga crushed and conquered a massive and heavily equipped military force in year 61. Later in 91 uprising it was also war right in the mountain pass. This day the 13:th mars when we were there it was the memory day of the Kurdish uprising in this area.


Entrance to Zakho. The mountains in the horizon are the border to North Kurdistan (present turkish border).

Duhok soccer hall.

Duhok by night

Duhok sunrise

There are always new electricity infrastructure, masts and cables destroying the landscape and the pictures. But there is never any electricity. I guess that is what an upgradeable system means.

One of Saddam Husseins many many castles. It is surrounded by a huge wall many kilometres around the caste.

Kengal dog, or Gamal as it is called in Kurdistan. It is a dog breed origination from Kurdistan.

Amedi a very special city build on top of a high mountain.

Amedi town

Sheladze Soccer field

Barzan area

Barzan city, the home city of Mala Mustafa Barzani.

The mountain pass, Geli to Bahdinan. This formation was huge and very special.

Very high mountain pass on mount Peres.

Back on flat land and heading towards Hewler.

Planning coming work trip

Of cource it is a work trip because that is the only thing. We are going to Bahdinan area to follow up and plan our work in detail and also to start the construction work. In a couple of months some of our projects for youth in Bahdinan area will be completed and opened and this means extensive work. It is worth looking forward to it because some of it is totally new for Kurdistan.

Bahdinan is the northen part of South Kurdistan.

Today the weather is great in Hewler. It could be up to 25 degrees in Hewler.

Hectic day

Yesterday middle in the ongoing work something new showed up. We had to travel immediately to another city for wome work. You have to be flexible and handle to work with many things obviously here. Well said and done we had a hectic day, like usual. We inspected the new premises for one of "the projects". Seemed great! We also parallell interviewed potential staff that has to be organized as fast as possible.

In the chaos we managed all this. A friend talked once about a project leader education focusing towards chaos (project) leading. It came in my mind today.


This is the premises for what i described above. It is under work and will be finished in 2-3 weeks.

A picture from last week:

Have a Kirkuk Pepsi (Written with arabic letters).