Assyrian Aid Society of America

homeland of Assyria. Working in collaboration with sister organization Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq, AAS-A has for a quarter-century vigorously pursued its Mission Statement by funding reconstruction programs, irrigation and electrification projects, education programs from pre-school through college, and medical projects that have included shipments of medicines and supplies, operating free medical clinics, and facilitating life-saving surgeries in the United States for Assyrians from the Middle East. Today AAS-A’s immediate focus is on the thousands of Assyrian families displaced by ISIS terrorism in both Iraq and Syria. Education and the Assyrian schools in north Iraq remain a priority. Over 6,000 students in 52 schools are being taught all subjects in Assyrian and using textbooks translated into Assyrian and published by the Assyrian Aid Society. In addition, AAS-Iraq has purchased buses and employs drivers to transport students who otherwise could not attend school from their remote villages. Although independent from and not formally associated with AAS-A, formal Assyrian Aid Society organizations are also at work in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and Holland.