Clothes for Syrians refugees in Zaatari camp

The Zaatari camp, which has been open seven months, and the situation in the camp
is freezing temperatures and cold rain and snow make life in the camp becoming very difficult in winter.

JEN is one of the humanitarian actors struggling to provide winterized assistance for
the Syrian refugees. During January 2013, JEN in partnership with UNHCR, carried out two distribution of winter clothes for 5,000 families in Zaatari camp. The team worked around the clocks to sort out and prepare the clothing packaging for each household.

On February 25, a third clothing distribution was organized by JEN for 242 families who did not benefit from JEN last distributions in camp. The cold and wind-whipped dust that morning didn’t stop some refugees, including women and children, to crowd near JEN trucks containing boxes of clothes.

After an hour of waiting, a young man was smiling when his name called by JEN staff to receive a clothing package. “I fled civil war in Syria with my brother in August last year. We left the village empty-handed because we were so panic”, said Adnan who used to live with his family in Daraa, a city in southwestern Syria, and  just north of the border with Jordan.

Many of the Syrians crossed Jordan with practically nothing.  They left with only one pair of clothes during a time of “panic and fear” as the number of injuries and deaths
increased. “Look at me, i am so dirty! This is the first time I received clothes since I moved to Zaatari”, Adnan added showing JEN package of clothes.

According UNHCR registration database, today more than 100,000 people living in Zaatari camp and this number keeps increasing each day. To respond to this situation,
JEN will continue the distribution for those who haven’t received clothing assistance. All the clothes distributed in this operation are donations from UNIQLO and Felissiomo.

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