Students from the International Pioneers Academy in Jordan recently brought non-food and food items for donation to families in need.
In coordination with IRD/Blumont’s Community Based Support to Refugees 2 (CBSR II) program, students and staff from the International Pioneers Academy (IPA), a private school in Jordan, recently visited Ajloun Community Based Organization, Jordan Red Crescent. The IPA team brought non-food (NFI) and food items 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 persons with disabilities (PWD).
CSC and IPA team members distribute clothing and shoes to refugee families.
IRD/Blumont works with 14 Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in the north, central and south governorates of Jordan, and establishes Community Support Committees (CSCs) in these CBOs. 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 CSCs, refugees and local communities come together during activities and NFI 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 CSC in Ajloun, and the various types of activities being implemented. Students and staff from IPA were taken to Hope Center for Disability, where they interacted with children who are intellectually disabled. There, Ajloun CSCs set up an entertainment program of dancing and games for the PWDs with the students and staff from IPA, and the children received gifts from IPA students in collaboration with the CSCs.
Aljoun Community Support Committee members and IPA team dancing with young persons with disabilities.
The academy donated eight computers, and a computer lab to Ajloun CBO, which will be used by the community and IRD/Blumont CSC members in order to conduct remedial classes, computer skills trainings for refugees, and enhance the computer skills of CSC members.
Aljoun CSCs with IPA staff in the newly donated computer room at Ajloun CBO.
During the donation of NFI and food items, Ajloun CSCs 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 stationary and 100 children received clothes and shoes. The day was very rewarding and heartwarming for the community, the IPA students and IRD/Blumont’s Ajloun CSC members.
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