Name: Kareem
Nickname: Kareem Shina
Father's name: Shina
Year of birth: 1944
Date of death: 11-08-2012
Place of birth: Shaqlawa
Place of death: Erbil
$Biography$
If not everyone is familiar with Kareem Shina, then certainly all orphans, the disabled, the elderly and widows are familiar with him. When he started working as the first social and sociological researcher in the primary institutions of the Department of Social Welfare, which was then called the orphanage in the late 1960s, it was built in the 1960s in the Kolbangian building in Shorsh neighborhood of Erbil.
After his father died, his mother and five-year-old Karimi moved to Erbil and settled in Khanaqa neighborhood. After a while, he was enrolled in Erbil Aula (meaning first in Arabic) School and completed his primary and secondary education. Although he lived in poverty, he did not give up and finally graduated from high school and was admitted to the sociology department of the College of Arts in Baghdad (Baghdad University). In late 1960, he received a bachelor's degree.
He was employed in the social welfare department (orphanage) and obviously at that time the social worker was not given enough attention and was employed as a teacher. Despite the low numbers of people with that specialization, he enjoyed it as a hobby of his own as he grew up as an orphan.
With his own efforts and what he learned at university, Kareem trained himself and eventually became a successful man until his retirement. He was a gentle, eloquent, meticulous man who treated orphans, mothers, the disabled, the elderly and widows, had good manners and kind and strong social relationships.
During his work with Ms. Rizqia Izzat Amedi, a veteran social researcher, he was the leader of the social welfare department for a while.
He married Nasrin Khan, a daughter of a prominent family in Erbil, and they had a son and a daughter. [1]