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AMAR Spring 2022 Newsletter

by admin | May 3, 2022

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.

by admin | Mar 3, 2022

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

by admin | Jul 17, 2020

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

by Kate Denereaz | Apr 30, 2020

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...

Yazidis in Iraq start New Year under threat of COVID-19

by Kate Denereaz | Apr 15, 2020

Today is Serê Sal (New Year), an important festival in the Yazidi calendar. It marks the descent to earth of Tawsi Melek, God’s chief angel, and the revelation of Lalish, the serene temple complex in northern Iraq that is the centre of the faith. Yazidis paint eggs in...

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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…

Healthcare for Mosul IDPs

As the numbers fleeing Mosul continue to rise, AMAR teams have stepped in to increase healthcare provision for the displaced. In just ten days, our teams have constructed….

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…

12-Nov-16-Bas-Irq- Shikhan handover ceremony in Duhok

Frontline Hospitals

“Daesh [ISIS] soldiers constantly used to pull out clumps of my son’s hair,” says Nadiya, speaking about her eighteen-month-old son Ali from a hospital bed in Northern Iraq…

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…

Mosul Crisis

As Iraq’s offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS control looms, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned of an impending humanitarian crisis….