The non-governmental, non-profit organization Shingala Azad was created in 2015 for the purpose of cooperating with other local and international organizations with a view to helping and supporting local people of the Nineve province, the city of Sinjar/Shingal and people in refugee camps in the area. The activities of Shingala Azad include also provision of medical, food and social help, fight for women’s and children’s rights, for rights of the victims of the war against the so-called Islamic State, refugees and all those who need such help both in the Iraqi Kurdistan and the whole Iraqi Republic.