Cara - Council for At-Risk Academics

Cara, founded by academics and scientists in the UK in 1933, works to help academics around the world who are at risk as a result of discrimination, persecution, violence or conflict.  With the help over 130 UK universities and others around the world, and of hundreds of individual academics, Cara's Fellowship Programme helps them and their families to get to safety at a university or research institution, where they can continue their academic work for the good of all, while Cara's Regional Programmes, currently the Syria Programme, help academics in exile in regions around their own countries or still working on in those countries despite the risks to stay connected and continue to develop their skills. Through both Programmes, talented academics who were unable to continue their work and were often at risk of arrest, injury or even death can continue to make their vital contributions to the world, and may one day be able to return home, to help rebuild their countries and societies.