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AMAR Summer 2022 newsletter
AMAR’s Summer 2022 Newsletter describes our work for the needy in Iraq and more recently for Ukrainians fleeing from bombs. The US Friends of AMAR and our long standing Iraqi medical lead, Professor Alaa Hussein Abed, are also showcased: [3d-flip-book...

AMAR Spring 2022 Newsletter
AMAR’s Spring 2022 Newsletter describes our work for the needy in Iraq and more recently for Ukrainians feeling from bombs:
PRESS RELEASE: AMAR Foundation gives direct support to Ukrainian refugees in Romania.
AMAR foundation is mobilised to support Ukrainian families, children and refugees currently moving across the Romanian border. With an extensive network of schools, teachers and mayors in Romania, AMAR can mobilise support not only to provide care and expertise but...
NEW AMAR PSYCHO SOCIAL PROGRAM IN KRI
AMAR EXTENDS PSYCHO SOCIAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM TO IDPs IN KRI W.H.O SUPPORT NEW PROGRAM FOR TRAINING AND SUPPORT ‘Into the light’ is extending the Escaping darkness mental health project, AMAR’s healthcare workers provided to IDPs and refugees in KRI region over...

COVID-19 risks deepening mental health crisis for Yazidis in Iraq
Yazidis displaced in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. They also face a mental health crisis that the pandemic threatens to make worse. Zaid, 31, has just heard the news that a resident of Darashakran camp in Erbil has been...
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD – FUNDRAISING EVENT
Historians and hosts of the hugely popular podcast The Rest is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have invited a few of their friends along to tell you EVERYTHING, from the Big Bang right up to 2022.
MENTAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO YAZIDI TEENAGERS
Aveen* is a Yazidi teenager, who is now living in a secure Displaced Person Camp in the Kurdistan Region. She was a child when she was forced to leave her home because of ISIS/Da’esh, thus, Aveen grew up in an IDP camp. The trauma of leaving her home at an early…
A NEW SCHOOL YEAR AT BASRA ORPHANS’ SCHOOLS
AMAR schools have been constructed and run to serve, support, and empower the more needy people in Basra, including many orphans on scholarships. The schools (primary and secondary) spent a large proportion of the last academic year teaching online, due to Ministry of…
MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT TO YAZIDIS
Zahara* is a middle-aged Yazidi housewife. In 2014, she was driven from her home by ISIS/Da’esh, and lost her husband and a daughter. Left as the head of the household, stranded in a Displaced Person camp in the Kurdistan Region, and not feeling safe to return…