AMAAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
The AMAAN Charitable Foundation seeks to provide compassionate assistance to the latest wave of refugees, people who have fled unprecedented civil strife, destruction and human suffering in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. Our aim is to provide relief and support to those in Northern California who may be in need of assistance. In doing so, we rely primarily on cultural norms that emphasize generosity, compassion and solidarity.
About This Cause
Of the estimated 22,600 Syrian and Iraqi refugees arriving in the U.S. in 2015-2016, about 5,000 were settled in California. Of these, more than 55 percent settled in San Diego County; about 17 percent (about 875 persons) settled in Northern California; and another 4.6 percent (about 231 persons) settling in the Central Valley towns of Turlock and Modesto. Data indicates that relatively small numbers of Syrian and Iraqi refugees have settled in the San Francisco Bay Area (mainly in Oakland and Santa Clara County) due to the very high cost of living and their meager means. Thus, there are an estimated 1,500-1,750 new Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Northern California and the Central Valley as of 2016. More have arrived in recent months and hundreds arrived in these regions prior to 2015. The AMAAN Committee decided that reaching out to—and assisting—recently-arrived Arabic-speaking refugees would be an effective way to launch our activities. Starting in the summer of 2016, AMAAN Committee members began to build contacts and relationships with Arab refugees in Northern California through friends and acquaintances. A number of AMAAN Committee members work in refugee integration and assimilation and have had direct contacts with refugee families. Other Committee members have been individually engaged in providing refugee families in Sacramento, Oakland and Fresno with direct cash assistance through zakat committees of Islamic centers and mosques in those areas and/or providing used cars to families who are in great need transportation services. Through these contacts, we began to educate ourselves on the best ways to meet the material, social and psychological needs of newly-arrived immigrants fleeing war situations; on what types of social services are available to refugees and others; on which organizations provide such services; and where there might be gaps in services needed by Arabic-speaking refugees in particular. We considered these service gaps to be unique opportunities for AMAAN to have a substantive impact.