This Summer, join AMAR and let the sunshine in

Flowers are meant to be photographed. They bring happiness, inspire us and are each diverse in character. But what is their appeal? It was once said that “a flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” 

This Summer, we would like to invite to join the AMAR International Charitable Foundation and let the sunshine in. We want you to get close to nature by sharing your floral tributes and sharing the beauty that’s around you. Will you join us and #LetTheSunshineIn? 

People can be allot like flowers, whose seeds blow in the wind, settle and then take root. #LetTheSunshineIn is a global campaign in aid of the AMAR Foundation’s work with displaced people and did you know, there are an estimated 9 million Iraqi’s living outside of Iraq and countless others of mixed Iraqi heritage? 

There are also many causes of displacement, as historian Charoltte Higgens illustrated in The Guardian back in 2006. A Roman document dated from AD400 and called the Notitia Dignitatum, describes a regiment of Mesopotamian soldiers patrolling an area of England that is now called South Shields. 

Whilst recently displaced Iraqi’s maybe new to many towns and cities, these people are following in the footsteps of others like the World War One poet Siegfried Sassoon, whose family arrived from Basra and settled in the British city of Manchester back in 1858. 

For further information on the AMAR Foundation’s work with displaced people, please contact AMAR on 0207 799 2217. You can also join @AMARLondon on Twitter and share your floral tributes with the hashtag #LetTheSunshineIn.