Who We Are
Amcariza Foundation, is a British not for profit organisation – with one mission. To donate grants for free to people who are down on their luck but in way that dignifies them and their sponsor. Run by ordinary people who got together, to find a new way of celebrating and helping developing countries.
Our name combines the initials and names of two significant local individuals: AMC and Ariza. It carries on the legacy of one man. The late Al-Haj Abdul Muquith Choudhury (AMC), who was born in Sylhet, the land of his landowning ancestors, AMC is the father of Amcariza’s founder Yasmin Choudhury.
Ariza was the mother of AMC and his 7 brothers. She fell on hard times after her husband died, leaving her a widow at a young age. In the 1950s initial philanthropic work for a rural village was initiated by AMC’s older brother, who later died in the 1960s.
And so, AMC left Bangladesh to emigrate to the UK in the 1950s. After decades of assisting the poor, he died on March 23, 2004 after a horrific road accident. Amcariza was set up by Yasmin to streamline the charitable requests and activities originally undertaken by AMC, including the girl’s rural village school. He left 1/3 of his Bangladesh estate, which the charity is seeking to now administer.
What We Do
- Farming and vegetable planting.
- Fishery knowledge.
- Supporting local artisans.
- Rehabilitation of street orphans and prostitutes*
- Training and education for schoolkids.
- Basic shelter
- Repairs.
- Food hygiene.
- Basic Medical assistance for elderly or vulnerable.
- Sponsoring single mothers, child labourers, orphans and street kids to access labour skills.
METHODOLOGY
We never provide cash into hands of locals.
We log charitable requests once a month and then review and prioritise a list of beneficiaries after painstakingly enquiring, checking and thoroughly vetting their circumstances.
HELP ME, HELP OTHERS
Only those who are vetted and assessed as being without access to financial funding are helped.
Wherever possible we ask locals to sponsor, to donate their time or skills to others. We teach those who your money helps, to help others too. For example, we will provide tutors to the children of locals; in turn they could suggest to water or tend to crops for an elderly person. So we create a positive intergrated community spirit.
We target the Muslim community to donate to us Zakat – the annual Muslim ritual to assist the poor.
Why Support Us?
Amcariza’s mission is to prevent poor people from getting loans or further into debt.
We socially mobilise local artisans, rural farmers and villagers, poverty stricken folks, by working directly, at grass roots level. Volunteers are mostly local Bangaldeshis and led by founder, Yasmin Choudhury, herself a British citizen who is of Bangladeshi heritage. She can speak the local dialect and is well known amongst the local people we work with.
As founder of Amcariza, Yasmin is tied to her local ancestral village in Bangladesh by her blood heritage. A key component to effect change and gain trust from locals. Once a beneficiary has benefited, we move them on and away from the foundation to ensure dependency is not formed and that they serve as an example to others, of how hard work and commitment can change lives.
The good will and trust we garner at grass root level allows us to get projects up and running quickly to help us effect change. As a charity, this is what makes us unique.
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