By Rasha Abousalem There comes a time in your life when you just know that things will change. That time for me was back in February 2014 when I decided to go on a 3 week long humanitarian trip to assist and interview Syrian refugees throughout Jordan. During the early stages of organizing my trip,...
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Baby Kits for New Delivery Center in Zaatari
Inspired by Finland’s attention to safety and to assist new mommies and babies, we have decided to create boxes to prepare new mothers for their newborn’s first year of life. These kits will include everything from clothing to bathing supplies. We hope to have these boxes filled and distributed by fall to Al-Zaatari Camp’s new Delivery Center. We are aiming to ship these...
Reflections from the Ramadan Food Drive 2014
Jumana Sawalha is university student and long time volunteer of SCM in Jordan. She often assists us with distributions and medical missions. With Ramadan just around the corner, she recently sent us some reflections from her volunteering experience during our Food Drive last year. It was around this time last year. I knew that the day...
Local Supporter Raises Funds for Malki Center School Bus!
Many of you may remember fourteen year-old Raya, who recently volunteered at our Malki Children’s Center in Amman with her mother Lena Tuffaha! She spent the day assisting our Malki team with various aspects of our program, including art and sand therapy. During her time there, she learned of the struggle many children face to get to...
The Darkest Places
This was written by one of the doctors that was on our mission- Khaled Issa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dan Brown-Inferno Bed no. 1: 18 months old girl with left lower leg amputated, scared Bed no. 2: young man with...
Why do we do these missions?
It is for the children that all of us are working and helping and going on these missions. This is the next generation that is being destroyed – mentality and physically. Some of them are stronger than others and will come out of it, but the others that we see are so depressed with what...
Medical Mission Team Members
All of these people have taken time away from their businesses and work, donated their time, paid all their own expenses of lodging, meals, and transportation, and many have donated even more to this mission. They are bringing much needed relief and aid to the refugees throughout northern Jordan – both in the camps and...
The need is so great for more help
This is a message we received today from people on the ground that know our mission has started: we have a House full of wounded and paralyzed patients need to be seen We have another house full of paralyzed children who need to be seen and supported emotionally, financially and morally (the youngest is 1...
Donation of medicines
We got a nice donation of medicine from World Relief out of Detroit today- thank you so much- it will help so many people. NAME OF MEDICATION MG. EXP. DATE AMOUNT DILTIAZEM ER 120 9/13 90 GABAPENTEN 100 11/13 360 GABAPENTEN 100 10/15 240 GABAPENTIN 300 9/15 546 GABAPENTIN 400 6/14 185 GABAPENTIN 400 ...
Syrian Refugee Crisis
More than 1.5 million Syrian refugees have fled their country. Three-quarters of a million of them are children. Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan are all sheltering Syrian refugees. These numbers are only those who have registered with the UN, so actual numbers of refugees are likely to be much higher. Please help – we are...