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AMAR’S MEDICAL WORK BOOSTED BY AWARD-WINNING DOCTOR’S RETURN TO HIS ROOTS
Hundreds of AMAR patients have received specialist treatment from an award-winning London Consultant. Dr Laith Al Rubaiy, who was born in Iraq, volunteered to work in AMAR’s healthcare clinic near Basra in February. A consultant gastroenterologist, he is currently...
AMAR in the news
AMAR’s work with Yazidi women and girls has featured in one of the UK’s leading newspapers, the Daily Mail. Journalist Lena Corner travelled to Iraqi Kurdistan to visit the IDP camps where AMAR works. She talked to some of the women there about how their lives have...
AMAR LAUNCHES CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR IRAQ
AMAR has launched its Christmas Appeal for children and families affected by conflict in Iraq. Just under 2m people remain displaced after the violence and destruction of the ISIS invasion. AMAR is providing vital healthcare and education support, but it desperately...
Please support widows and orphans in the Middle East
For hundreds of millions of families around the world, this month’s Mawlid al-Nabi commemoration to mark the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday will be a time for family, friends, joy and celebration. A time of prayer, exchanging gifts, embracing the wider community and...
AMAR and Coca-Cola Foundation start project to replenish water in Iraq marshes
AMAR has begun construction of a domestic-wastewater-purification system in the Mesopotamian Marshes, where all 30 houses in the village of Al Adhaima will be connected to the network. The project, which is being funded as part of The Coca-Cola Company’s global...
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…
