Maimouna Alammar is one of the founding members of the Child Guardians Network and a former senior field leader with extensive experience in managing operations in complex and high-risk contexts. She played a pivotal role in establishing and managing the organization’s first field office in Eastern Ghouta, one of the most volatile areas during the Syrian conflict.
She led a team of 135 field staff and oversaw the full scope of the network’s activities in the region. Maimouna also contributed significantly to the establishment of the organization’s office in Daraa governorate and managed operations across the southern region until 2018. Following her displacement, she went on to establish and manage a new office in Azaz city in northern Aleppo, before being promoted to the position of Program Officer in 2019.
Maimouna’s engagement in human rights work dates back to her early involvement in peaceful protests supporting prisoners of conscience in Damascus and her participation in Syria’s early peace movement. She contributed to several civil initiatives and awareness campaigns and was among the founders of the Violations and Documentation Center in Darayya.
Throughout her career, she has been instrumental in strengthening child protection approaches in Syria and in building the capacities of activists and practitioners working directly with children. She has also played an important role in promoting children’s rights and advancing the inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream primary education, particularly in southern Syria.
Maimouna holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Damascus and has made numerous media appearances addressing the humanitarian situation in Syria. Her long-standing commitment to human rights advocacy exposed her to significant security risks, which prevented her from completing her master’s degree in 2011. As a Chevening and Said Foundation scholar, she later obtained an MA in Childhood in Society from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, in 2022.
She is married and a proud mother of two daughters.
