Abara
Abara exists to cultivate opportunities for understanding, serving, and loving across divides through education, encounters, and response.
Abara means “ford” in a number of semitic languages, signifying a natural place where a river is shallow enough to cross. Our desire is to cultivate a space where people move in humility across divides. Abara House is more than a place. It is a pathway toward understanding and change.
1 in 78 people on earth is forcibly displaced. In response to global migration, in a polarizing world: Abara inspires connections beyond borders through mutual understanding, education, and meaningful action in pursuit of narrative, systems, and personal change.