Amna envisions a world where refugees can shape their futures, free from the impact of trauma, conflict, and displacement.
We are a refugee-centred organisation, committed to expanding mental health support and community-led psychosocial services for displaced people.
We fund, train and equip frontline organisations and humanitarians to deliver trauma and identity-informed care to people experiencing conflict and displacement.
Our approach blends evidence-based methods with creative, cultural healing practices, offering communities safe spaces to grieve, express and release trauma and regain a sense of safety.
By fostering safe spaces for healing, we aim to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and address the long-term impact of displacement, creating lasting change.
In 2015, as hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived on the shores of Lesbos after harrowing journeys across the Aegean Sea, our co-founder, Zarlasht Halaimzai, once a refugee herself, was among the volunteers offering psychological first aid.
“I recognised that look of panic in their eyes because I was a child refugee. Like them, my family and I were forced to leave behind everything we knew and loved to save our lives, when Afghanistan’s civil war forced us to flee our country in 1992, when I was 11.”
Read more about how Amna grew from a few volunteers to a global network.
