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Suad, Iraq

Suad, Iraq

"I cannot believe I have my own house. It is like a miracle has come true."

Seven years after returning to Iraq from long exile in neighbouring Iran and three years after losing her husband and son in a bomb blast, Suad Jafar finally has something to be happy about - a house of her own.

Suad and her five grandchildren were among a group of 180 Iraqi families, gathering more than 1,000 people, who were given the keys to new houses earlier this month in the southern province of Missan under a UNHCR shelter programme.

"I cannot believe I have my own house. It is like a miracle that has come true," Suad said, when she was given her keys.

Morsy Hussein and his family also received a new house in Al Kahla district under UNHCR's Shelter Program

UNHCR plans to continue its valuable Shelter Program, "subject to availability of funds," noted Daniel Endres, the refugee agency's representative in Iraq. "UNHCR plans to complete some 50,000 units this year for formerly displaced populations," he said, adding that this would help ease the reintegration of about 300,000 Iraqis.