Where We Work
Maine, USA and Chad
Maine, USA
In Maine, SIDRA Humanitarian Organization focuses on supporting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. We provide healthcare access, promote preventive care, educate on health topics, and offer translation services to break down language barriers. Additionally, we support seniors, children with disabilities, and offer cultural brokering services to create a harmonious community.
- Programs running
- 5
- Languages supported
- English, Arabic
- Office
- 124 Lisbon St Room 3K, Lewiston, Maine, 04240
Chad
Internationally, our organization addresses the unique challenges in Chad, such as early child marriages, extreme poverty, and limited access to healthcare and education. We work to improve education opportunities, end early child marriages, enhance living conditions, and empower marginalized communities. Our goal is to create pathways for better healthcare and ensure the rights of girls and indigenous peoples are defended. We also provide rehabilitation and support for street children.
- Focus
- Education, girls' rights, health
- Local partners
- To be supplied
- Since
- 2024
What the two places have in common
Language first
Nothing works until people can say what they need. Interpretation and cultural brokering come before every other service.
Getting there
A clinic or a classroom you cannot reach is not access. Transport is treated as a core service, not a favour.
Staying with it
We follow a case until the outcome is real — the appointment attended, the job kept, the school year finished.