The project of setting up a NGO was born during the winter of 2023-2024. Artemisia is the result of observations made in the course of previous volunteering experiences and social commitments, but also of our life experiences within the communities to which we belong. Over the past two years, we’ve been working on this association project, thinking about the type of intervention that would get a pass from the former Syrian authorities. The Assad regime had to see this as neither a threat nor a means of embezzling money, which seemed almost impossible to achieve.

Conditions have changed. While the future remains uncertain, a window of opportunity has opened. Our association would focus on the recovery of communities impacted by decades of instability, focusing on water supply and reforestation, as well as capacity building and the promotion of local autonomy.

Our Vision

Our association has chosen the name of a flower known for its resistance, resilience and therapeutic virtues: Artemisia.

Our vision is of a sustainable world where injustice and inequality have no place, and where human communities are equipped with tools and institutions to protect their rights and freedoms, as well as their physical and psychological integrity, without prejudice to any social, religious, gender or ethno-linguistic affiliation or assignment.

Faced with the persistence of wars and endemic crises, the massive displacement of civilian populations and the destruction of ecosystems of which human societies are an integral part, Artemisia is concerned about what the omnipresence of collective traumas, visible or invisible, and transmitted from generation to generation, could produce on our common future.

We believe that human communities impacted by violence and war should be able to benefit from specific, priority support to rapidly access living conditions that promote a dignified life, itself enabled by mutual solidarity, individual participation and respect for the environment on which these communities depend. Artemisia’s action is therefore aimed at empowering local communities.

We believe that peace and justice can only result from a social ecology that sees care and respect in the context of a symbiotic relationship between human beings and nature: for Artemisia, repairing and restoring human communities means first and foremost caring for their living space, rather than simply providing them with the material and food resources they need to survive.

To know more, follow the link : https://artemisia.ngo/