Population of Zaatari has been increased

Thank you very much for those attended in public session held on 18th of January about Syrian refugees in Jordan and our activities. Huge numbers of Syrian refugees are still coming to Jordan every day and Jordan accepts the biggest number of refugees among its neighboring countries. Jordanian government, International organizations and NGOs all unite together and making our best effort to support people’s life, however it is quite difficult to respond all demands coming from refugees as population increasing dramatically and we need more support.

I felt that I was visiting totally different camp when I wenty back to Zaatari camp after one-month-stay in Japan. Population of Zaatari has been increased around 50,000 in 1 month and expanding day by day (there are 108,000 people staying in the camp as of Feb.12 according to UNHCR). Today, our office in Zaatari is surrounded by many shops, though which was empty when I left there at middle of January.

WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) committees which we established to deal with water related problems among refugees became more active, because number of population has been increased and frequency of the use of those facilities has been also increased accordingly. We established committees in two areas in the camp so far and also have been preparing to spread the system to other areas to mobilize the communities in the camp.