At a glance: Jordan
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Crushed childhoods, cruel choices in Gaza
AMMAN, Jordan, 8 April 2008 – Ayman is a soft-spoken 14-year-old boy from Jabalia City, Gaza. His family is poor, as his father has been unemployed since March 2006. Ayman’s parents have already sold almost all their furniture to pay for food and schooling for their children. Recently, after collecting a governmental food handout, Ayman’s father had to sell the milk to get the money for the journey back home.
Displaced Iraqi children heading back to school in Jordan
AMMAN, Jordan, 10 September 2007 – The Ikzaz family has been living in Jordan since 2004, when they fled Iraq as a result of ongoing violence there. As refugees, they are sustained only by the goodwill of their neighbour, Um Jum’a. Without her help, the Ikzaz family would have no food, clothes or shelter.
Courses on offer at community centre empower Palestinian women in Jordan
AQABA, Jordan, 20 August 2007 – Um Tamer, 32, lives in the Shallah district of Aqaba, which is home to some 6,000 Palestinian refugees. A mother of six, she used to suffer from severe depression. That began to change four years ago, when volunteers from the Community Centre for Social Development came knocking at her door.
UNICEF-supported centre builds leadership skills for Jordanian girls
AQABA, Jordan, 13 July 2007 – “I never dared to stand up and speak out, not even to my father,” recalls Wala, 16. “Now I am very happy. I found a place where people understand me and I understand them.”
Queen Rania, Eminent Advocate for Children, visits child health centre in Morocco
FEZ, Morocco, 2 June, 2007 – On the second day of her official trip to the Kingdom of Morocco, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, UNICEF’s Eminent Advocate for Children, took time out to visit the Doukara Health Centre in the heart of one of the country’s most underprivileged neighbourhoods.
Queen Rania, Eminent Advocate for Children, shares Morocco’s successes
FEZ, Morocco, 1 June 2007 – Morocco is committed to the achievement of quality education, protection and a decent life for its children. During an official visit to the Kingdom, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan today witnessed examples of innovative projects being implemented here.
Workshop provides new tools to Jordan’s budding journalists
AMMAN, Jordan, 31 May 2007 – Hala, 13, is a student in Grade 8 at a school in Amman. She is also a budding television journalist with significant experience for someone her age.
Queen Rania brings passion and experience to new role as Eminent Advocate for Children
NEW YORK, USA, 26 January 2007 – During the Symposium on Child Survival, a gathering of world leaders at UNICEF headquarters last September, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan was adamant in her insistence that the international community can – and must – do better for its most vulnerable children.
Workshops help Palestinian women take the lead in a refugee camp
MADABA CAMP, Jordan, 27 November 2006 – Sitting around a sunny classroom in the pre-school at Madaba Refugee Camp, 27 km west of Amman, the Jordanian capital, 65 children sing nursery rhymes, cheerfully clap their hands and stomp their feet.
New Delhi alternative learning centre gets a visit from Queen Rania of Jordan
NEW DELHI, India, 13 March, 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan visited children at the Ritinjali Learning Centre in South Delhi on Friday, the first day of her two-day trip to India. Ritinjali is one of over 3,000 alternative schools in India dedicated to teaching out-of-school children while reintegrating them into the formal education system.
Serious fun at camps for girls
PETRA, Jordan, 30 September 2004 – In 2002, UNICEF conducted a national survey among youth in Jordan. The result is Jordanian youth: Their lives and their views, an in-depth report detailing progress and issues for youth in Jordan.
Beauty salons and community development mix well in Aqaba, Jordan
AQABA, 25 August 2004 – She hears it all the time even from people she’s just met: “You should run for office,” people tell Nayfeh when they meet her in the streets of Shalaleh, a poor area of Jordan’s only port, Aqaba.
Jordan’s police are child-friendly
AMMAN, 6 August 2004 – The sign on the brand-new police office here in Jordan’s capital reads ‘Public Security Directorate’ – not a phrase which most people would normally associate with child rights. And yet the ‘Family Protection Department’ (FPD) of the police deals with exactly that.
Jordan’s mosques help fathers become better parents
AMMAN, Jordan, 23 July 2004 – At first the gathering looks very ordinary: Just some Jordanian men and their sons, sitting, talking and writing. When told to do so by the bearded facilitator, the workshop participants quickly jot down some ideas: “It is important to give the baby a good name.” “We must provide the best health care.”
