Rebuilding Lives

AMAR helps people in areas of civil disorder, conflict and disruption, rebuilding lives within communities under stress by creating and sustaining professional services in medicine, public health, education and basic need provision.

AMAR is a British charity which has been working since 1991 to deliver services to refugees, internally displaced persons and other under served populations affected by human-caused and natural disasters in Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia.

AMAR restores the basic structures necessary for a calmer, more optimistic and less conflict-prone future, creating stability and opportunity for populations that have often known only danger and uncertainty. AMAR's work is characterized by all-indigenous staff, a focus on women and children, extensive use of local women volunteers, local capacity- and institution-building, transition to self- governance and adherence to the highest international standards – has proven a highly sustainable and cost-effective way to strengthen traumatized communities.

Today, over half a million people are benefiting from AMAR’s services. Yet too many in these troubled areas are still waiting to be helped. It is AMAR’s mission to alleviate their suffering and build strong and stable communities, providing a more peaceful future for all.