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May 2016

Sitting on his desk in his classroom, a young boy writes in his textbook in grade one at UNICEF supported School # 2 at Za’atari Refugee Camp for Syrian Refugees in Mafraq Governorate, about 50km North of Amman, the capital of Jordan. UNICEF’s Back to School campaign is ongoing in Za’atari camp and in host communities across Jordan, working with peer educators, community and religious leaders to encourage children to enrol for school. Currently over 12,000 children are registered for school in Za’atari and more than 32,000 in host communities. UNICEF supports all schools in Za’atari camp with school supplies, teaching aid, teachers training, salaries, water and sanitation and construction.

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 […]

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Syria Crisis April 2016 Humanitarian Results

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Syria Crisis March 2016 Humanitarian Results

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