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  • In Jordan, UNICEF and partners offer services to help refugee children recover from conflict in Syria

    news UNICEF, 08 Mar 2012 (12 years ago )
    By Samir Badran MA’AN, Jordan, 8 March 2012 – On a cold February day, Syrian refugee children and their parents gathered at the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD) Centre, a UNICEF partner, in the southern Jordanian town of Ma’an. They are some of the thousands of Syrians who have ...
  • Syrian students in Jordan offer lesson in hope

    news The Jordan Times, 27 Apr 2012 (11 years ago )
    By Taylor Luck RAMTHA/MAFRAQ — Despite a broad smile and a love for football, it is one indistinguishable trait that sets Samer apart from his classmates and made the nine-year-old the most popular kid in school the moment he first took his seat. Samer is Syrian. “All his Jordanian classmate...
  • Syrian refugees in Jordan: EP delegation calls for EU to continue support

    news European Parliament News, 14 Feb 2013 (11 years ago )
    The EU and its member states should continue providing support to respond to the massive Syrian refugee crisis and make sure the funding arrives where it is most needed, said MEPs who met with Syrian refugees in Jordan this week. The delegation also called on Jordan and other neighbouring countries ...
  • Footing the Bill

    news The Guardian, 06 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    Since 2011, the Syrian conflict has killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed countless homes and businesses, forcing Syrians by the thousands to seek refuge in the region. Jordan generously opened its borders to these refugees, who settled in camps established by the United Nations and in north...
  • Refugee Camp for Syrians in Jordan Evolves as a Do-It-Yourself City

    news New York Times, 04 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — A young Syrian salesman stopped into Ahmad Bidawi’s barbershop for a shave the other day. Music wafted on fan-cooled air. Outside, on what has become the main commercial strip here in one of the world’s largest refugee camps, workers steered handcarts packed with lumbe...
  • 'Jordan hosts third largest number of refugees in the world’

    news Jordan Times, 16 Aug 2014 (9 years ago )
    AMMAN — Jordan hosts the third largest number of refugees in the world, and the largest refugee community globally when compared with the population, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said Saturday. Ensour noted that the direct cost of hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees on the Kingdom...
  • The Czech Republic Contributes to the Syrian Refugees Humanitarian Assistance

    news Embassy of Czech Republic, Amman, 28 Mar 2012 (12 years ago )
    On 27 March 2012 the first Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg approved a humanitarian assistance to the Syrian refugees. The assistance reaches the amount of CZK 3 million and will be provided through the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which approved its re...
  • In Jordan, Syrian refugee children are learning to cope with the violence they’ve witnessed

    news UNICEF, 04 Jun 2012 (11 years ago )
    By Wendy Bruere MAFRAQ/AMMAN, Jordan, 4 June 2012 – On their way to school in Homs last year, 9-year-old twins Seema* and Nour* saw dead bodies in the street. “They came home very upset,” said their father, Amjad*. “Now they are afraid of loud noises.” The two girls stopped going to school a...
  • Syrian refugees struggle to adapt to new surroundings in Za’atari camp

    news UNICEF, 21 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    Syrian refugees struggle to adapt to new surroundings in Za’atari camp
  • Syria conflict: UN says refugee crisis in Jordan 'critical'

    news BBC News, 24 Jan 2013 (11 years ago )
    The UN says there has been a huge leap in the numbers of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan, putting a considerable strain on resources.