INARA is launching a new, time-limited project to help refugee children from Syria with clubfoot and developmental dislocation of the hip (DDH).
INARA was founded by Arwa Damon to work with children who have been affected by conflict and have life-altering or life-threatening injuries or illnesses. She created the organization to address severe gaps that existed in medical provision for refugee children.
One such gap is the treatment for clubfoot and DDH. Children with such conditions in Syria would have been able to access free or discounted treatment. However, due to the war they are now...
Today (March 29, 2017) INARA is happy to announce that they have been awarded over $500,000 as part of their partnership with UNICEF in Lebanon. The funding has been provided by the US Fund for UNICEF.
This money will be used to continue their work providing life-altering medical treatment to refugee children; and also to expand their program to launch a new project focusing on orthopedic injuries.They will announce more details on the orthopedic injuries project in the coming weeks.
Speaking about receiving this significant amount of money, founder and president, Arwa Damon, said: “I’m so...
The Secular Society will match every dollar donated to INARA for the next six months - up to a total of $100,000.
This means that for every dollar you donate between February 1st and July 31st, The Secular Society will donate a dollar to match yours, until we reach $200,000.
The Secular Society is a non-profit organization that funds projects across the world that advance the interests of women and the arts. As their name implies they hold that all religious beliefs are equally valid and as such their expression must be treated with tolerance and respect.
Arwa Damon, President of INARA...
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recently stepped in and donated the rest of the money needed to pay for medical treatment to rebuild Syrian refugee Fatima’s hands. The campaign to rebuild her hands had been running for ten months, and saw INARA raise over $50,000.
Fatima lost her hands in an explosion early on in the Syrian civil war. Her family had just finished having people over for dinner, and had just said goodbye, when they heard a loud bang. What happened next, neither Fatima nor her mother, Nafla, can remember. Nafla's next memory is running out of the house carrying her bleeding...
UNHCR and INARA have this week launched a video to try to prevent burn injuries and reduce the number of refugee children suffering burns due to poor living conditions and lack of safety awareness.
Sofia Karim, Programme Manager at INARA, said: “Almost a third of all of our cases here at INARA are children that have been burnt from accidents while living as refugees here in Lebanon. We keep on getting more and more cases coming through all the time. We knew that we had to act to try and prevent it - and this is how our collaboration with UNHCR came about.”
UNHCR and INARA worked closely...
INARA is proud to partner with UNICEF in Lebanon.
UNICEF has awarded INARA more than $100,000 over the next year. This money will expand the work that INARA is already doing on the ground in Lebanon with Syrian refugee children.
This UNICEF partnership allows INARA to work with more children from conflict areas who have catastrophic injury and are unable to access treatment due to war. INARA provides life-altering and life-saving medical care, and fills the gaps in medical access when it is not provided by other institutions or non-profits.
When a child is referred to INARA, there are two...
