We aim to reach the world's most vulnerable children who have come from some of the most traumatic backgrounds having experienced ordeals such as abandonment, loss of parents, sexual abuse, neglect, physical abuse, living on the streets or prostitution.

Some of the children arrive at the orphanages and care homes as young as a few weeks old because their families simply cannot afford to raise them, unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence in some parts of the world.

Others have been removed from their families or care givers having found their way through the social welfare system, perhaps as a result of sexual/physical abuse or neglect.

Some are street children. Children of all ages can end up living and working on the streets and the experiences that have led them there may be one of many.

Here are just 3 examples of children Amara works with:

• A father had been sexually abusing his 8 year old daughter for some years - the police asked our affliliated children's centre to take her and her younger sister in.


• A 14 year old boy had been living on the streets for the past 2 years. He shared that he ran away because after his mother had died, his alcoholic father's physical abuse worsened and it became unbearable to live with. As they lived in a country where the authorities didn't reach him, he felt his only option for survival was to live on the streets alone.


• A new born baby boy was found abandoned, malnourished and bruised at the roadside in winter temperatures of -20c.

AMARA's aim is to reach all such children.

We need your help.