The difference and difficulties of “selfishness” and “independence”

Zaatari refugee camp accepts around 6,000 newly arrivals last week and the camp population are still increasing incrementally.
Some shops in the main street have started to sell fresh beef, ice cream and
even café with television have been opened where refugees can get together and
collect information about their country Syria.

One of the biggest challenges we are facing is that refugees start to install private facilities just next to their caravans without any proper connection to sewage system. According to our survey, around 20% of female answered they already install private toilets and /or showers to their tents and prefabs. Reasons raised from refugees are the difficulties in using existing common facilities because many parts in those facilities were stolen or they worried about security conditions especially in the night time (few lights on the streets during night time). In addition, there are some shops selling materials such as cement and taps which can support refugee to construct their private toilet by themselves.

We have observed many children play with black water. 写真④It has been also reported that the number of water born disease cases among refugees is increasing.

Therefore, JEN conducts meeting with WASH committees of camp communities to improve proper usage and maintenance of facilities, and to spread hygiene awareness among people in the camp.

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