Projects AMURT UK Supports Abroad
Disaster Relief
AMURT UK is part of a global network of local AMURT chapters that respond to humanitarian disasters. AMURT is renown for their rapid, low cost, effective responses to crisis as their relief work is conducted largely by teams of dedicated local volunteers who know the area and culture the crisis has happened in.
Gaza
The population of Gaza is facing one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our time. With 85% of their housing, sanitation, and medical systems destroyed, these people are facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions, threatening their very survival.
AMURTEL is one of few organisations also looking at solutions to support Gazans over the long term in Egypt and Italy.
Nigeria
AMURT Nigeria launched in 2010. The chapters core work is to reduce mother and child mortality rates (which are some of the highest in the world) and improve the health and wellbeing of locals by empowering community members with the skills to be health professionals.
Greece
AMURTEL Greece has an all-women team of midwives and support personnel which has been working in refugee camps, squats and other refugee accommodations in the wider Athens metropolitan area since the peak of the refugee crisis in September 2015. The Mother and Baby Centre was founded in Central Athens in September 2016 and is the only woman-to-woman centre of this type in Athens providing all the services as per the Midwifery Model of Care.
Romania
AMURT Romania has been providing vocational skills and housing to vulnerable young people, many homeless, since 1990. The project started life as a small children’s home in the Domnesti village near Bucharest to provide a loving, child centred alternative to the under-resourced government children’s homes.
Kenya
AMURT Kenya has been active since 1993. The chapter has delivered a myriad of projects ranging from HIV-care and community acceptance, youth education, youth job training, emergency mass-feeding and long-term health/social enterprise initiatives.
