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Emergency Medical Relief Fund
URGENT APPEAL! NAAMA ESTABLISHES EMERGENCY MEDICAL RELIEF FUND
Dear NAAMA Members:
Witnessing the dire events in Libya, Yemen, Syria and other beloved countries in the Arab World over the past few weeks, it has become clear that our valiant brothers and sisters in the healthcare sector providing emergency and other medical care are operating under abysmal circumstances compounded by lack of security, total disregard of the sanctity of ambulances and hospitals and, more importantly, a major shortage of basic medical equipment and supplies.
It is our moral obligation to come to their aid in any way possible, consistent with NAAMA's humanitarian mission.
Your NAAMA Foundation, with the blessing of the NAAMA Board of Directors, has set up an Emergency Medical Relief Fund dedicated to providing urgently needed medical supplies wherever they are required in the Arab World. Our immediate focus is Libya and our initial effort is being executed in consultation with Libyan physicians affiliated with NAAMA who have detailed knowledge of the medical relief situation in both the east and west of Libya.
Indeed, several of you have already taken the initiative or participated in various aid campaigns, perhaps on the chapter level. Unfortunately, it is not easy to ship medical supplies from the US to areas of need the Middle East.
Money donated to NAAMA’s Emergency Medical Relief Fund will be utilized to provide medical supplies to areas in need with the help of AmeriCares, ANERA and similar NGOs.
Our vision for the future is to have funds available not only for the ongoing tragedy in Libya but to have contingency plans for emergency medical relief wherever the need may suddenly arise in other parts of the Arab world. Please make your check payable to NAAMA Foundation and write Emergency Medical Relief Fund in the memo line. You may mail your check directly to the NAAMA National Office, 801 S. Adams Road., Suite 208, Birmingham, MI 48009.
Thank you for your compassionate contributions to NAAMA’s Emergency Medical Relief Fund. While Libya is our immediate concern, this initiative is ongoing. We wish to build the Emergency Medical Relief Fund to be able to respond wherever and whenever a medical crisis arises.
We strongly urge all of you to donate, and donate generously, for this great and noble cause, which embodies your aspirations and expectations and is indeed in the heart and soul of this great organization.
We can’t think of a better and nobler way to spend your charitable, tax deductible dollars than this project.
Sincerely,
Mouhanad Hammami, 2011 NAAMA President
Hareth Raddawi, 2011 NAAMA Foundation Chair
Donate to the NAAMA Emergency Medical Relief Fund:
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