Advocators, Educators, and Empowerers of Change.
The Atem Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to carrying out humanitarian relief services, enabling access to education and advocacy, promoting the empowerment of women and local communities, healthcare education, and local sustainable development for impoverished communities worldwide. The Atem Foundation is focused on addressing the growing impacts of conflicts and disasters on the civilian population, particularly on children, young girls, women, and persons with disabilities, and uplifting vulnerable groups and communities out of poverty.
The work of the Atem Foundation is hinged on the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, fundamental to humanitarian action. Humanity means that human suffering must be addressed wherever it is found, with particular attention to the most vulnerable. As a humanitarian foundation, we work objectively, independently, and without bias. We are bound to the principles of humanitarian action. Not just a doctrine, the principles serve as practical tools to guide and enable our everyday work. The core of our mission never wavers: to protect the rights of displaced people during a crisis. So we put these principles to practice.
The humanitarian principles
Humanity.
To prevent and alleviate suffering wherever it may be found. To protect life and health and to ensure respect for human beings.
Impartiality.
To carry out humanitarian action without discrimination, to relieve suffering, giving priority to the most urgent cases of distress.
Independence.
To remain independent from political, economic, military or other non-humanitarian objectives.
Neutrality.
To abstain from taking sides in hostilities. To refrain from engagement in political, religious, racial or ideological debates and controversies.
Founded by humanitarian, democracy specialist, and spiritual leader Henry Atem, the Atem Foundation provides life-saving assistance to displaced and crisis-affected persons, refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and children and women from high-risk communities. Inspired by the founder, we seek to stand with the most vulnerable people and communities, affected by conflict, disaster, or pandemic. The experiences of our founder and the organization’s collective commitment to humanitarianism inspires us to offer to humanity the best that the world can offer. The Foundation’s core values rest with providing measurable and results-based programming.
Through humanitarian relief, training and empowerment, education, and advocacy, sustainability development efforts, and micro-finance developments, the Foundation provides timely, efficient, and effective life-saving measures to regions afflicted by complex crises and conflict situations. Meeting the demands of humanity is at the core of the work of the Foundation.
By supporting the efforts of the Atem Foundation, you become a pivotal champion for bolstering the safety, security, and happiness of our interconnected, global world. We all deserve a chance to live and to live well.
"You must never think of anything except the need and how to meet it."
-Clara Barton
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Our goal is aligned to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the core of the Foundation’s work are the following:
