Jordan
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Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps
Our strategy
Promote water savings and efficiency to conserve precious resources. Help meet the immediate needs of vulnerable Syrian refugees.
The context
Critical challenges face the Arab kingdom, which is the fourth water-poorest country in the world. Already scarce and expensive water and energy are now even more strained by the recent influx of Syrian refugees fleeing across the border to host community and camps in Jordan.
Read more about our ongoing response to the Syrian refugee crisis ▸
Our work
- Emergency response: Distributing warm clothes and blankets to refugees and winterizing shelters against freezing temperatures
- Water: Building deep wells and improving systems to increase the water supply to 400,000 refugees and host communities; financing household projects and reservoirs to promote improved conservation
- Children & Youth: Providing school supplies, activities and safe places for Syrian children to play in refugee camps
All stories about Jordan
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Jordan, Syria: Syrian refugees outside camps struggle to meet needs June 11, 2013
These are a few of the thousands of families we've been able to reach in northern Jordan. There are many more like them who need our help.
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Jordan, Syria: Mothers coping with war: ‘I embrace them and tell them not to fear’ May 10, 2013
Over 75 percent of Syrian refugees are women and children. Find out how one mother is determined to help her children leave the trauma of war behind.
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Jordan, Syria: Life in Zaatari: An inside look April 19, 2013
Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp is filled with uniform rows of tent upon tent now housing an estimated 140,000 Syrians. What is it like there for families who don't know when they can return home?
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Jordan, Syria: Finding joy on the playground April 11, 2013
Images from a recent visit to a Mercy Corps-built playground for refugee kids shows how their resilient spirit comes alive with a safe and happy place to play.
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Jordan, Syria: A child’s refuge from war April 10, 2013
Zeinab is a bright, wide-eyed girl I met at Dream Land, a Mercy Corps playground inside Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp. “I am happy here,” she said. “It’s better here because there is no war.”
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Jordan, Syria: A city rising from the desert April 8, 2013
Less than a year after opening, Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp is now housing more than 140,000 Syrian refugees, the equivalent of the country's fifth largest city.
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Jordan, Syria: Desperately seeking water April 4, 2013
The arrival of water trucks in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp are a welcome sight for families who survive on limited rations. But the deliveries are simply not enough.
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Jordan, Syria: Moving forward from loss April 1, 2013
Each day, we meet Syrian families like the Al Husseins who have lived through tragedy that no one should have to, and they persevere.
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Jordan, Syria: Struggle in a temporary home March 28, 2013
Najwah and her husband Abad feel lucky to have found a temporary home in Mafraq, Jordan since they fled Syria with their children nine months ago.
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Jordan, Syria: Jordan's hospitality for hundreds of thousands of Syrians March 27, 2013
Recently I visited Mafraq, a border town that used to have a population of 60,000 people. Over the past 18 months, some 25,000 refugees have sought safety here.