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tance and hopes to expand its
PHSS assistance throughout
Iraq to help as many people
like Yosif as possible.

When the situation in Basrah ping well. He is employing a Having recently completed
improved, Yosif decided to full-time worker and hopes the second phase of PHSS,
return home with his family. to increase his workforce. TOM has just started the third
Rebuilding your life after With increasing customers, phase of PHSS focusing on
having been away can be demand for Yosifs products returnees in Baghdad,
very difficult. To help Yosif is high. "I intend to expand Diyala, Anbar and Ninewa,
and others like him to reinte- my business and I've seen with a generous funding
grate successfully back into new products in Baghdad from the US Department of
their communities, PHSS that my customers have been State's Bureau of Population,
provides grants and other requesting. I have more and Refugees and Migration
assistance for motivated more new customers since (PRM). While seeking addi-
individuals to start and culti- receiving the PHSS grant," tional funding from other
vate their own small busi- Yosif said. donors, TOM is committed to
ness. help Iraqis in need of assis-

Yosif applied for and recei-
ved a PHSS grant that provi-
ded the essential equipment
and materials he needed to
start up his own business sel-
ling household goods. The
business has given Yosif the
opportunity to secure a regu-
lar income for himself and
his family. Since receiving
PHSS assistance and starting
his business, Yosif can now
afford to rent his own small
house, provide three meals a
day for his entire family and
send two of his children to
the local school.

Yosifs business is develo-

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