Transportation: AAS-Iraq purchases, operates, and maintains buses for transporting children to and from school. Central government subsidies for school transportation, inadequate to begin with, are routinely and drastically reduced by the time the payments finally arrive locally.
Teacher Salaries: Although the central government is supposed to pay teacher salaries throughout Iraq, the official pay scale is inadequate to attract and keep qualified Assyrian speaking teachers in our Assyrian schools. Additionally, the government's salaries for these teachers are routinely withheld for many months at a time, causing great hardships on the faculty and requiring AAS-Iraq to step in and pay what the teachers are rightfully owed.
Facilities: In addition to the construction and operation of residential dormitories for college students and day care centers for infants and young children, there is an ongoing need to repair and maintain the schools and classrooms. AAS-Iraq and the Assyrian Aid Society of America published the first Assyrian schoolbooks used in these schools.
Other: While not specifically a part of its Education projects, AAS-Iraq has built, equipped, and continues to maintain computer centers, Internet cafes, and new media facilities for Assyrian students.