~by Emilie Whitman In a camp of over a hundred thousand displaced people, the number our psych team spoke with that day was small. We’d all been crammed into a tiny trailer to see patients in the Arab Medical Relief (AMR) compound in Al-Zaatari. After a while Dad and I left with a translator to...
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Oasis of Resilience
Below is an excerpt from a post written by one of our mission participants. She is a landscape architecture design student at the University of Washington and wrote her master’s thesis on providing a safe and nurturing physical environment for the children of Zaatari Camp in Jordan. Please click the link at the bottom to...
PostEducation, Humanitarian Aid, Jordan, Refugees, salaamculturalmuseum, Syria, UNICEFby Salaam Cultural Museum
Refugee Learning Center Concept Note
CONCEPT NOTE Name of the Project Learning Center for Syrian refugee children in Jordan Date: January 2013 I. Background and relevance of Action Since April 2011, thousands of Syrian families have been fleeing their homes and communities – going to the closest country across the borders. The war and violence in Syria have driven these...