JEN initiates emergency aid activities for Syrian refugees

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The Zataari refugee camp in Jordan set up in a vast desert is on the border with Syria. The camp accommodates about 23,400 people (as of August 26, according to a survey by UNHCR), almost half of them are under the age of eighteen. Water sanitation facilities like toilets, showers have been set up in the camp but diarrhea went around among children for a while, a poor sanitatry condition was thought to be the possible cause of the diarrhea. The next to fear is respiratory affection due to fugitive dust in the desert. (There is also fear that children may suffer from respiratory affections.) Both from JEN’s survey of refugees’ needs in the camp and its experiences on emergency aid so far, JEN identified the need to improve (necessity of improving) children’s sanitary conditions. After having talks with U.N. agencies and other organizations, JEN decided to give hygiene education to refugees especially children as an emergency aid to prevent the spread of water-related diarrhea and infectious diseases.

In parallel with the emergency aid, JEN will continue to monitor situations closely in neighboring countries and identify necessity for aid in other areas as needed including aid for refugees to overwinter.

【A sight of Zataari refugee camp】

Activities in Jordan to date

JEN started providing emergency medical care at a refugee camp at Iraq-Jordan border for people who had fled to the border in response to the strike against Iraq by the U.S. and British forces in March 2003. Since opening an office at the capital city of Amman, Jordan in August 2004, JEN has been providing aid in neighboring Iraq from the remotely-situated office. Until now, JEN has worked on providing children who tend to be socially vulnerable with aid such as repairing school buildings and offering health education at schools in poverty areas of Baghdad, provinces of al-’Anbār, Bābil, Kerkûk and Diyālā. With the deterioration of the political situation in Syria and rising refugees, JEN surveyed what is needed in Iraq and Jordan. As a result of the survey, JEN first initiates aid activities in Jordan where JEN has its office.