Assyrian Aid Society of America

Founded by Lincoln Malik in 1991, and with Youel Baaba it's first President, the creation of the Assyrian Aid Society of America (AAS-A) was a direct response to the crippling hardships suffered by Assyrians in the ancestral homeland of Bet Nahrain in Northern Iraq as a result of Saddam Hussein's policies and the Gulf War.

Working in close collaboration with sister organization Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq (originally founded as the Assyrian Aid and Social Society) over the past 17 years, AAS-A has vigorously pursued its Mission Statement by funding building programs, irrigation and electrification projects, education programs at every level, and medical projects which include shipments of medicines and supplies as well as the maintenance of free medical clinics.

Today AAS-A has chapters in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Jose, California's Central Valley, and Las Vegas. The national headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Although independent and not formally associated with AAS-A, formal Assyrian Aid Society organizations are also at work in Australia, Canada, and Great Britain

The Assyrian Aid Society of America is a California non-profit corporation sanctioned by the California Attorney General and a charitable 501(c)(3) organization as designated by the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department.

AAS-A is governed by a 15-member Board of Directors. To learn about the individual Directors, click here. To review the AAS-A by-laws, click here.

Supported primarily by private contributions and volunteer services, from January 1 2005 through December 31 2007 approximately 88 cents of every dollar donated to AAS-A went directly to charitable and humanitarian projects in Northern Iraq.

To see copies of AAS-A's annual tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service, click here.