Supporting and Building Anera’s Medical Aid Program
Mar 26, 2021
I’ve been affiliated with Anera for 25 years now, as a donor and a board member. Because I’m a physician, I started working right away on the health committee headed up by the esteemed Dr. Vicken Kalbian, who has supported Anera from its earliest years. At the time that I first got involved, there was…
Read MoreI Feel Proud to be Supporting Anera
by Arthur Baur
Mar 25, 2021
I grew up in the country, outside of New York City. It was the sort of place where there were a lot more cows than people. My older sister even went to a one-room schoolhouse. It was kind of an isolated childhood but I learned a lot about how to live in the woods. I…
Read MoreMy Mother is the First Leader I Met
by Anera
Mar 18, 2021
Celebrating women on the front lines on Mother’s Day in the Arab world Most countries in the Arab world celebrate Mother’s Day on March 21. Acknowledging the vital place of women in society is more important than ever this year. Women are the backbone of society — they are caregivers, educators, peacemakers and front-line workers…
Read MoreOpportunity is the Biggest Difference
Mar 5, 2021
Last week Khalid launched a fundraiser to help vaccinate Palestinian refugees. Here he tells us the story behind the campaign. My dad is a decades-long supporter of Anera and my two sisters and I have supported the organization more recently by following its impact on social media, donating to its campaigns, and attending its annual…
Read MoreA Family Touched by Wartime Internment Supports Refugee Education
Feb 26, 2021
Rachel, Tony, and Adrian Kitzinger recently donated to Anera and shared the following moving story to provide background on the donation. Our father, Ernst Kitzinger, fled Germany in 1933 and ended up in England some years later. As you may know, at the start of WWII, the British rounded up and deported all Germans living…
Read MoreThe Inspiring Doctors Brown
by Anera
Feb 11, 2021
Anera mourns the loss of the Browns, two beautiful people, who made the world a better place with their endless enthusiasm for living life to the fullest and for giving back to those less fortunate.
Read MoreDoing Something to Help Palestine
Jan 26, 2021
In 2009, I got interested in a work camp opportunity with a group called Volunteers for Peace. I saw that the International Palestinian Youth League had a camp in the West Bank and I jumped at the chance, since I had long wanted to visit Palestine. I spent two weeks there in the Bethlehem area,…
Read MoreGiving Back And Doubling My Impact
by Walid Labadi
Sep 30, 2020
Connecting Communities Through Workplace Giving I am an ardent supporter of Anera. My contributions are made possible through the Community Connections Program at the World Bank: a workplace giving initiative organized to encourage its employees to give back to organizations that support their interests. I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. My father was…
Read MoreSpread love, help others, and always hustle!
by Samer Fidy
Jul 23, 2020
I was born in Brooklyn, and lived in New York until I was nine. When I moved back home to Falesteen, it was a difficult time to be a teenager there. So, at 17, I went to California for school. After finishing college, I settled in Florida. My daughter, Isabella, and I always wanted to…
Read MoreAnera Visionary: A family passionate about supporting refugees
by Mike Kraft
Jun 16, 2020
Through the personal relationships that came out of our volunteer work, we became more aware of the political issues that impact refugees and their families back in their places of origin. I’ve moved around quite a bit during my lifetime, but at heart I’m a Midwesterner and lived most of my life in the “flyover”…
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