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I worked for an American NGO in Northern Iraq, and while I never had the opportunity to meet anybody from Wadi, I did hear success stories, both through the NGO grapevine and through local partners, of Wadi’s projects. Wadi is respected by the local population for being loyal and not leaving at the first sign of trouble like many others. Many Kurds are apolitical, and when they hear that popular initiatives have been cut back because some donor didn’t like what the NGO was saying, only Caritas will be losing face. Caritas seems to have forgotten the NGO Code of Conduct (which ironically, they helped to develop), whose first point says that the Humanitarian imperative comes first.