Responding to the need of each school

It has been more than one year since JEN Amman office started its assistance to Syrian refugee students hosted by schools in Jordan. In the host communities, JEN has continued the renovation of water and sanitation facilities and hygiene promotion activities in Jordanian public schools. Finally, all renovation works in 150 target schools  are approaching to the end.

What makes this project difficult is its objective, 150 schools. The scale of work in each school is relatively smaller than that of other countries’ project. On the other hand, it requires surveying more than 150 WASH facilities, discussing with 150 principals and renovating facilities in 150 various ways.

For example, in a school with over 1,000 boy students, there were only 4 latrine seats. As a result of discussion with Directorate of Education Engineer team and the headmaster, JEN remodeled the store into a new latrine.

[Store before remodeling]

[During remodeling]

[Store converted into latrines]

In other mixed school, boys students and girls students use the same latrines. Thus, girls were hesitant to go to the latrine as boys were playing nearby. Hence, and for better use of unutilized space, JEN converted the dead space into the latrines and built a partition to separate it into two latrines, one for boys and another for girls.

[Girls’ latrine and boys’ latrine separated by a partition]


Likewise, JEN engineering team has decided to renovate the schools on a case-by-case basis where practicality and cost effectiveness are of paramount importance. And yet, passion and quality of work never to be compromised. ..

Such an achievement would definitely lead to the schools’ high satisfaction. A headmistress was grateful for  JEN’s works and posted before-after pictures on school’s Facebook page. The comment said, ‘Thank you very much for JEN and all participating in the improvement of our school environment’.

[Pictures of JEN’s work posted on Facebook]
JEN’s support to Jordanian public schools is not over yet.  To response growing needs, JEN will additionally renovate water and sanitation facilities in 50 schools. In addition, to expand the schools’ capacity for accepting Syrian students, JEN started building new classrooms.

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