Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART)

Who we are

Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) is a charity founded by Baroness Caroline Cox. We undertake advocacy and provide aid to those who are, or who have recently been, suffering oppression and persecution in various countries around the world. 

HART works to provide lasting change by working with local partners, many of whom are not reached by major aid organisations and whose stories are often out of sight of the mainstream media.

We work with communities in active conflict zones (such as Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Syria) and post-conflict areas still devastated by war (such as Nagorno-Karabakh and South Sudan). 

HART relies on first-hand evidence of human rights violations, using this as a basis for a powerful twin-track programme of international advocacy in arenas such as the House of Lords and the media, and targeted aid-work focusing on sustainable community development, local partnership and regional networks of support.