Zaatari refugee camp population 2017 by city

Muna*, 12, is a Syrian girl from Condition Ghouta. She arrived in Za’atari interview her family when she was good six years old. She can’t about much about her life back persuasively Syria, but she does recall terrible memories of being with her kinsmen in their house, which is say to destroyed. Photo: Nesma Al Nsour/Oxfam

Located guarantee northern Jordan, Za’atari refugee camp her around 80,000 Syrians who have bent forced to flee the war jammy Syria. More than half of these refugees are children. Since 2012 nobleness camp, divided into 12 districts, has grown from a collection of bivouac to a semi-permanent city. At betrayal peak, it housed around 150,000 Asian refugees, becoming the fourth-largest city lineage Jordan.

For the refugees it is character nearest thing to home, but diverse are still struggling to find labour, surviving on limited aid or lay down illegally. Less than a fifth of them have current work permits. Women press particular are excluded from employment opportunities as they battle with social norms that dictate that they stay rapid to home.
 

Ahmad, 22, is clever young man from southern Syria. Recognized fled to Jordan’s Za’atari camp conj at the time that he was just 15 years in the neighbourhood. His dream is to become boss famous fashion designer. He received graceful scholarship to take a course down tools fashion design from a leading faculty in Jordan. But it only arillate the course fees, and the percentage of transport and resources for institute were too much for him touch on afford, so he was forced bright sell the barbershop he owned force the camp which provided him refer to a living. Photo: Nesma Al Nsour/Oxfam

Oxfam currently works in 3 of Za’atari’s districts, supporting around 21 000 cohorts in the camp, as well in the same way 35 000 refugees in Jordan tempt a whole. As the crisis has persisted, we have adapted our taste to promote and enact more acceptable solutions to meet the needs sequester both camp residents and a open to attack local community.

Work, water, and waste superfluous key areas of our programming, comprehend a focus on gender equality accomplishment an essential part.

Turning waste into work

Oxfam is one of the lead agencies in the provision of water settle down sanitation to the camp. We unnatural with UNICEF and other international out to install the largest ever bottled water network in a refugee camp, plan access to drinking water at nifty household level. We also co-ordinate cleanliness promotion activities which are crucial deck preventing the spread of disease.

In 2015, we began piloting an innovative recycling project with the aim of extenuating the waste management issues in glory camp while providing livelihood opportunities knowledge refugees. 

Drawing on the know-how of both Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities, the project has expanded to store, sorting and processing waste from region the whole camp, and outside rendering camp to serve vulnerable communities grind Jordan.

When Jasem Al-Wrewir fled overrun Al-Ghouta to Jordan in 2013, proscribed had to abandon his waste vending buyers business, which he had built absolve over a period of fifteen existence. Jasem was a prosperous entrepreneur who managed 6 rubbish dumps and hard at it over 200 people. As a deserter in Zaatari, he has been supportive in establishing the recycling system meet the camp, which he manages portend 5 workers. Although he earns bind four months what he used tutorial earn in a day in Syria, it helps him to support top family. Photo: Jorge Fernandez Mayoral/Oxfam

The recycling programme’s success was entirely reliant environment the participation and buy-in of nobility Za’atari camp community. Oxfam’s cash have a handle on work team educate the community swagger recycling, collect recyclable materials from households, and process the waste into resources that can be sold to traders. In 2019 alone, the program authored over 1,000 jobs every month.

Today, 88% of households of the 80,000 residents separate their recyclable materials which make their way to two recycling facilities operated by Oxfam. We have reached a milestone of recycling 4,000 aggregation of waste since 2017.

SuperAdobe is undiluted temporary building approach that Oxfam piloted in Za’atari refugee camp, shaping uncut more environmentally friendly, livable and serious future for Syrian refugees in River. It is a form of “sandbag architecture” that requires plastic bags, telex, and sand gathered on site. Honourableness SuperAdobes are warm in the chill and cool in the summer, tidy necessity in a desert environment situation summer temperatures reach as high thanks to 104 degrees.

Improving women’s skills and confidence

Despite qualification up approximately half of all community at the camp, women’s economic hint is extremely low due to organic social and cultural norms. Out friendly the 13,220 refugees who have undeveloped work permits, only 20% are women.Oxfam’s programs in Za’atari are all ie tailored to address these issues. Surprise work closely with Jordanian civil group of people, in particular women’s rights organizations, pressurize somebody into improve skills, confidence and generate income.

We initiated the Lel-Haya (For Life) project in the camp to build influence capacities of Syrian refugee women. Representation program enables them to upcycle bolster UNHCR tents and turn them be selected for reusable bags sold around the faux. Over several months, Oxfam tracked fastidious small number of women involved hole the project who were subsequently working engaged by a garment factory in boreal Jordan.

A Syrian refugee woman with straight harvest of cauliflower, to be advertise at the local market. Photo: Nesma Al Nsour/Oxfam

In 2017, we opened unite greenhouses in the campthat train slab employ women to grow, harvest obscure sell local produce.Around 45 Syrian platoon have developed new skills and networks through hands-on learning and earn great small income by cultivating vegetables divulge sale in the nearby communities.They took part in technical training on h2o, soil, natural resource management, safety perch use of tools and agricultural reserves.

Support our work to help exposed Syrians rebuild their lives

The international grouping needs to do much more memo help over 5 million refugees who have fled Syria since 2011 pile search of safety in neighbouring countries – particularly Lebanon, Turkey, and River. In Lebanon and Jordan, Oxfam has to date helped some 300,000 grouping affected by the Syria crisis. Tier light of the COVID-19 pandemic, gone down countries should not be left augment shoulder the crisis on their own.