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one of the refugee camps; as of April 2021, thousands of displaced Yazidi families still lived in this camp. During this period she would work a few weeks at a time in Sweden or Norway to raise funds and spend most of her time on mission at or near the refugee camp. Ghafouri was an outspoken critic of the
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and displaced hundreds of thousands of refugees. Ghafouri helped the refugees arriving wounded and traumatized at the border and made it her primary focus to help them. She also founded Joint Help for
Kurdistan, an aid organization assisting yazidi refugees and orphans. Ghafouri set up a clinic at
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to reunite twelve children, held in a
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