Qaraosh was one of Iraq's highest Christian population areas until Muslim militants stored the city on August 7th 2014.
More than 120,000 Christians along with several thousand Yazidis had to leave with nothing as Kurdish troops withdrew and the terrorist organisation advanced.
At the time Joseph Thomas, the Chaldean archbishop of the northern city of Kirkuk said it was a "catastrophe, a tragic situation" and that "thousands of terrified people are being displaced as we speak".
One year on the Christians are still living as refugees in desperate need of aid.
Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) told Premier it would be stepping up its support for the displaced.
National Director of Aid to the Church in Need UK Neville Kyrke-Smith said: "This new tranche of vital projects is to help build lives anew, to sustain hope and ensure the presence of Christians as a vital and historical part of the make-up and fabric of the Middle East.
"Many Muslims have told me - 'There is no Middle East without the Christians.' Thanks to the friends and benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need for their prayers and compassion for those who suffer and look to us in hope."
ACN funds go towards supporting construction and running costs of Church institutions, food, printing Bibles and other books, housing supplies, labour wages and medical treatments.
It is estimated that around 8.2 million people are in need of assistance in Iraq, with 3.1 million people internally displaced and since August 2014, nearly one third of grants have been used to provide reliable housing for homeless displaced people.
Chaldean priest Father Douglas Bazi, who's based in Erbil, said: "Tens of thousands of people who arrived here with nothing; at first, this completely overwhelmed me. The people were totally lost. Their faces reflected the anger, confusion and desolation. To me, they were like bodies with dead souls.
"The 7th of August is a day of sorrow, but also the day that God saved us. We are, after all, still alive. We will celebrate a mass. We cannot forget what happened. However, we will ask God to forgive the perpetrators and to change their thinking."
Premier's Antony Bushfield speaks to Clare Creegan, from Aid to the Church in Need, about life for the Qaraqosh:
