FIVE INTERNATIONAL DONORS TO FUND 57.7 MILLION JD GOJ COMMITMENT TO EXPAND EDUCATION TO REACH ALL CHILDREN IN JORDAN FOR 2016/17 SCHOOL YEAR
Donors continue to support expansion, improvement of Jordanian education system AMMAN (May 26, 2016) – The European Union, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom and United States, together with UNICEF, today announced their support to the Government of Jordan’s landmark commitment, made at the Syrian Conference in London earlier this year, to educate every child in Jordan […]
Syrian Youth Volunteers Innovate to Educate Children
By Yasmine Saker 22 year old volunteer, Bilal, carries a laughing child during an open day of games, plays and puppet shows for out of school children in rural Lattakia, Syria. “I believe in volunteering for this cause because seeing a child smile is worth the world. I feel like I’m working for my […]
New learning opportunity for Syrian out-of-school children
By Basma Ourfali For Rashid and Mohammed-Noor, 16 year-old shepherds in Ta’at, a small village near Aleppo, school is already an old memory. “Since the conflict started in Aleppo, the middle school in our village closed down,” explained Mohammed-Noor, forced to leave school at 12 years old. Many schools in remote rural areas around […]
4.8 million Euros grant from the European Union’s humanitarian office to support the most urgent needs of vulnerable Syrian refugee families in Jordan through UNICEF
AMMAN, Jordan, 10 May 2016 – The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO) has provided a grant of 4.8 million Euros to UNICEF to support the most vulnerable Syrian refugee families and children in Jordan. As the conflict in Syrian enters a sixth year, tens and thousands of Syrian refugees in […]
العيادات المتنقلة تنقذ الأرواح في سوريا
تقوم العيادات المتنقلة بإيصال الخدمات الطبية والتغذوية التي يحتاجها بشكلٍ عاجل أكثر من 12,000 طفل وامرأة في ريف الحسكة شمالي شرق سوريا أيار 2016 مسعود حسن بينما تدخل الحرب في سوريا عامها السادس، تزداد الاحتياجات الصحية لآلاف الأطفال وعائلاتهم في في محافظة الحسكة، أقصى الشمال الشرقي لسوريا، حيث يعيش أكثر من 300,000 نازح ويحتاج […]
Mobile Clinics Save Lives in Syria
Mobile health clinics delivers urgently needed medical and nutrition support for over 12,000 children and women in rural al-Hassakeh north-eastern Syria April 2016 By Masoud Hasen In far north-eastern Syria, health needs of thousands of children and their families increase while the war enters its sixth year. In Al-Hassakeh governorate, over 300,000 people are […]
