Sharifa and her family are originally from Sinjar. For more than six years, they have lived in Mamilyan Camp for internally displaced people, near Akre in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, after fleeing the Islamic State group. The chickens, 17 laying hens and two roosters, were given to them in March by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), part of a project to provide a source of income and food security to 40 families in the camp.