Our Story
About Anar
Anar is a Palestinian non-profit registered in Palestine and based in the
Bethlehem Governorate. Through its programs and activities, it aims to
promote the well-being and psychological resilience of Palestinian children
affected by violence, oppression, and injustice, ultimately improving their
mental health by providing psychosocial programs and interventions that
contribute to enhancing their mental and emotional well-being.
Anar operates its main office in the Bethlehem Governorate, along with
additional offices located in Hebron and Tulkarm. Field teams are active
throughout the West Bank, ensuring that services reach all intended
recipients, and that programs and activities remain effective on-site. Anar is
committed to providing psychosocial support initiatives tailored to local
needs and creative expression schemes, viewing these as vital paths toward
community development and collective recovery from violence and
oppression. Development and healing are promoted through awareness
campaigns, guidance, and mentorship, aiming to disrupt cycles of injustice
and trauma across generations, while strengthening resilience and hope
within the community.
Our Message
Anar prioritizes its goals and activities to ensure the realization of the fundamental right to health and well-being for Palestinian children, their caregivers, and the community as a whole. It strives to achieve this through an inclusive and holistic approach to community-based psychosocial support, grounded in human rights and protection principles, and by strengthening cooperation and coordination with relevant stakeholders in the West Bank to create a supportive, responsive, and appropriate environment for all target groups.
Our Vision
A Palestinian society where children are empowered with resilience and psychosocial recovery skills, within an aware and supportive community thatis able to support itself.
Our Mission
Anar’s mission is to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing of children and communities affected by conflict and marginalization through community-based, culturally grounded, and participatory approaches. The organization works to empower local actors, strengthen community structures, and promote collective healing through psychosocial accompaniment, capacity building, and community mobilization.
Our Goals
Theory of Change
Anar follows clear operational paths and well-defined methodologies in delivering its services and expanding its activities, in addition to capacity building and empowerment. Through these strategies, Anar aims to reach Palestinian children exposed to violence and oppression and provide them with high-quality services. Anar’s efforts are not limited to service delivery alone but also include the continuous development of its staff and partner institutions to ensure the maintenance of service quality and the improvement of work methodologies. To achieve these goals, Anar works to develop its internal capacities and systems and strengthen its local and international relationships to ensure the effective implementation of its methodologies and interventions.
The core problem that Anar seeks to address is the suffering of Palestinian children from severe and diverse psychological and social pressures stemming from the prevailing political, economic, and social situation. To confront these challenges, Anar adopts an intervention approach focused on providing access to psychosocial support services, along with empowerment and internal and external capacity building, as key areas of work.
Anar strives to achieve a direct and sustainable impact on the lives of Palestinian children exposed to oppression and violence, ensuring they receive high-quality psychosocial support services. The desired impacts also include enhanced psychosocial support, recovery, and resilience services within the Palestinian community, as well as Anar’s own development at all administrative and professional levels. Among the long-term outcomes that Anar prioritizes are empowering targeted children psychologically and socially, developing the sustainability of psychosocial support programs for various community groups, and empowering all those working in the field of psychosocial support within Anar. Anar also seeks to achieve operational and financial sustainability, expand its geographical and field operations, and develop policies, systems, and programs that best serve Anar and its staff.
The short-term outcomes include empowering targeted children psychologically and socially and strengthening psychosocial support groups for community-based self-help. The organization also aims to develop qualified young Palestinian leaders in the most affected and vulnerable areas, equipping them with leadership, spiritual groundedness, and social responsibility skills through participation in psychosocial accompaniment teams. Furthermore, the organization works to enhance the capacity of its staff, promote financial sustainability, and support its geographical expansion. The organization also focuses on developing policies and systems that contribute to its institutional and community development.