The Visitor From Japan (Project Monitoring)

JEN’s activities are operated by the partnership with UNICEF and Japan Platform (referred to as “JPF”), as well as the donation of our supporters.

From 23rd to 25th of October, two members of JPF head office in Tokyo visited Jordan. For 2 days, they monitored the consequences of JEN’s activities which were carried out from 2016 to April in 2017. For last 12 months, we’d engaged ourselves in accepting Syrian refugees, maintaining the water sanitation such as overage toilettes and washing basins at schools in the host communities, and enlightening young students on the hygiene.

The JPF inspectors also monitored the current state of facilities of several schools after our support was completed. Some schools keep working on the maintenance of the quality, others not, and the self-sufficient maintenance of school sanitation is an urgent issue at boys’ schools in Jordan. Even though it looked unhygienic to our eyes, the inspectors were impressed with our efforts and the dramatic improvement on the awareness and attitude of students toward the hygiene.
 
【An example of mal-maintained facilities】

In Jordan, every public school is obliged to meet the standard of maintenance and management of sanitation facilities. Even those schools below the standard are struggling to achieve their goals, believing they’re heading for the improvement bit by bit. We’re so pleased that JPF has recognized that.
 
【JPF monitoring】

It can be said that the quality of maintenance and management of sanitation varies in the degree of the devotion from school masters and teachers. Even if not being up to the standard yet, it’s important to keep working on it. That is why JEN will continue to visit schools of our previous activities, and carry out a post-activity monitoring along with having conversations with local teachers.