One goal; Different tactics(Part1)

Its September 2015, an informal meeting is taking place at a small meeting room between JEN senior staff and suddenly an idea was proposed; “lets organize a football tournament, where sport and hygiene promotion activity could be organized, with passing invitations to both local community and NGOs operating at Za’atari Syrian Refugee camp footballers”.

Coordination meetings been conducted with Za’atari Sports Club located at Za’atari village and with NGOs operating at Za’atari Syrian Refugee Camp, everybody heard the idea felt extremely interested in being part of JEN initiative. “The gap between local community and NGOs community at Mafraq governorate is present, so sport could be one of the methods we can use to facilitate a joint understanding towards both communities”; with this sentence we opened our planning stage towards organizing this event.  JEN was the sponsor for all event needed equipments, in a way that shows our commitment towards local community and organizing such events for further integration process between different targeting communities.

At 09:00am on Thursday October 8, 2015; 8 teams attended the draw for the tournament (JEN, International Relief and Development (IRD) and UNHCR teams , 4 teams from local community and one team from Za’atari Syrian Refugee Camp), they all had one goal to enjoy the day with colleagues who they didn’t had the chance to meet before.  First match started at 09:30am with full energy supported by approximately 200 spectators.

(To be continued)

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