Amal Center for Women / Centre Amal pour femmes

In early 2002, a group of committed Muslim women from the Montreal community recognized the need for a psychosocial center specializing in women’s issues. Coming from a variety of different backgrounds, they came together to respond to this need and created The Amal Center for Women.

As time went on, the number of cases affected by domestic abuse and violence became hard to ignore. Amal then decided to focus specifically on these cases, specializing it’s services to meet the needs of women and their families afflicted by domestic abuse. The name “Amal” comes from the Arabic language and means “hope” because we at Amal believe that the community has a responsibility to provide hope and aid to women and their families facing domestic abuse.

Le Centre de Femme AMAL est une initiative communautaire qui a été lancé en 2002 par un groupe de femmes musulmanes pour répondre aux besoins grandissant d’un centre spécialisé d’aide psychosocial répondant aux problèmes visant les femmes de cette communauté. Le nom “AMAL” est un mot arabe qui veut dire “espoir” car à AMAL, nous croyons que la communauté à une responsabilité collective de fournir espoir et aide aux femmes victimes de violence conjugale et leur famille.