Life For Relief and Development, Inc.

Life's goals are to alleviate human suffering regardless of race, color, religion, or cultural background and to aid in the eradication of poverty, famine, social and economic turmoil. To assist the survivors of natural disasters, war, and other catastrophes and provide assistance to people across the globe by offering humanitarian services such as food, water, shelter as well as healthcare and education.

Life has field offices in 8 countries and works with trusted and vetted partner agencies in various countries around the world to implement its humanitarian programs. Life sends containers filled with wheelchairs, assistive devices for the disabled, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and supplies to individual hospitals, clinics, and hospital distribution systems in many countries. These donated items are supplied by generous US based organizations. In an effort to expand its outreach Life hosts teams of audiologists to fit hearing aids into poor hearing impaired displaced and refugee children living in camps in Jordan and the West Bank. Life also rebuilds and newly constructs clinics and hospitals in many countries.

Life promotes literacy through the distribution of books to colleges, universities, primary and secondary schools, donates classroom furniture to schools in need, gives orphans and poor school children uniforms, shoes, and school bags filled with stationary, pens, and other educational items through its back to school program to faith-based and charter schools and Native American schools and libraries throughout the US.

Life's emergency response team provides emergency food, clean water, bedding and blankets, hygiene kits, first aid kits, medicines, medical supplies and equipment, wheelchairs and psychological treatment for children and parents affected by war and natural disasters.

Life builds community centers where community members can gather for social events as well as funds small human development projects in Africa for poor families to enable them to start their own businesses and support their families and provides vegetable seeds to poor farmers.

Life's orphan sponsorship program provides food, shelter, education and healthcare to over 4,550 orphans in Afghanistan, Ghana, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Sierra Leone and Syria.

Life constructs water wells in Ghana, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kyrgyzstan. Life also installs water holding tanks in homes and small businesses in Palestine and water cooler/filtration units in Iraqi schools.

Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, Life for Relief and Development is among the largest and oldest U.S.-founded Arab American humanitarian relief and development organization in the United States. Life is dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to people regardless of race, gender, religion and cultural background. As a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Life is in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It is also a member of InterAction, the largest alliance of US based NGO's.

Over the past 25 years, Life has been able to distribute aid and relief to over 45 countries. Life works diligently to help the poor and needy in a number of countries such as Afghanistan, Ghana, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Palestinian Territories (through our office in Israel), Sierra Leone, Syria, and the US as well as others. When natural disasters strike, Life rushes to answer the call of help, and provides basic humanitarian assistance.

Life has knowledgeable program administrators averaging more than ten years of experience with Life. Board members have backgrounds in a variety of fields including medicine, education, engineering, business and finance. Life's excellent reputation for low expense ratio and its compliance program inspires confidence in donors, assuring them that their resources, both in-kind and financial, are being used wisely. The Better Business Bureau continues to give Life its seal of approval.

Life's progress is shown by its growth in establishing and sustaining its operations in 8 countries for over 10 years. Also by forming long term partnerships with international organizations working in countries where the needs of the people are great and Life is a viable funding partner in sustainable development projects for communities in need. Life continues to identify new domestic and international partners, to work toward increased levels of efficiency, consistency and quality in the donation process. Life receives numerous acknowledgement letters from grateful recipients attesting to the improvement in their lives, the lives of their patients served in hospitals and clinics where Life distributes aid and education made possible by Life's donations and work in the schools in their regions.