Students from the International Pioneers Academy in Jordan recently brought non-food and food items for donation to families in need.
In coordination with Blumont’s Community Based Support to Refugees 2 (CBSR II) program, students and staff from the International Pioneers Academy, a private school in Jordan, recently visited Ajloun Community Based Organization, Jordan Red Crescent. The International Pioneers Academy team brought food items and household supplies to be donated to families in need.
Through this outreach, Ajloun Community Support Committee members gathered a database of vulnerable Syrian and Jordanian families including widows and elderly people, and facilitated with Hope Center for Disability to include people with disabilities.
Blumont works with 14 Community Based Organizations in the north, central and south governorates of Jordan, and establishes Community Support Committees in these Community Based Organizations. These committees are composed of both refugee and Jordanian members, and serve as mechanisms for community dialogue and self-management for vulnerable refugees and local communities. By establishing Community Support Committees, refugees and local communities come together during activities and supplies distributions, and a database of refugees is created.
During the school visit, the Ajloun support committee leader provided a brief introduction on the role of the Community Support Committees in Ajloun, and the various types of activities being implemented. Students and staff from International Pioneers Academy were taken to Hope Center for Disability, where they interacted with children who are intellectually disabled. There, Ajloun Community Support Committees set up an entertainment program of dancing and games for people with disabilities with the students and staff from the school, and the children received gifts from International Pioneers Academy students in collaboration with the Committees.
Aljoun Community Support Committee members and IPA team dancing with young persons with disabilities.
The academy donated eight computers, and a computer lab, which will be used by the community and Blumont committee members in order to conduct remedial classes, computer skills trainings for refugees, and enhance the computer skills of committee members.
Aljoun committee members with International Pioneers Academy staff in the newly donated computer room.
During the donation of food and household supplies, Ajloun committees facilitated the process by contacting the vulnerable refugees and Jordanians prior to the date of donation, and doing so eased the process of donation. Some 50 families received food parcels, 100 students received school bags and stationery and 100 children received clothes and shoes. The day was very rewarding and heartwarming for the community, the International Pioneers Academy students and Blumont’s Ajloun Community Support Committee members.
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