HOST COMMUNITIES

WFP's food voucher program helps support Syrian refugees, while also injecting money directly into the local Jordanian economy on a monthly basis.©WFP/Laure Chadraoui

15-year-old Ahmed Mawrdi, from Dara'a, left Syria with his family eight months ago and has not attended school since arriving in Jordan. He now works at a butcher shop in Mafraq. ©ILO

Sahab (24) lives with her husband Ali (26) and her son Mohamad (1) in a tent on the outskirts of Amman. In three months she will give birth to another child. “This is not the place where I wanted my children to grow up. I want them to have a better future. But for now this is all I can give to them,” says Sahab. ©CARE/Johanna Mitscherlich

Here, a Jordanian doctor provides a checkup for a baby at a primary care clinic in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. There is free medical care available for refugees at clinics both in camps and in urban centers across Jordan. Credit: Peter Biro/IRC

Hygiene kit distribution, Ajloun. ©A.Hampson/ICMC

Winterisation Distribution, Irbid. ©A.Hampson, ICMC

Maraa, 10 years old, lives with her mother, her four siblings and 14 other people in a small flat in Irbid. She cannot go to school, because the waiting lists are already full. Her two 13-year old brothers have work to make a living for the family. Her father died in Syria. ©CARE/Johanna Mitscherlich

A girl’s classroom in Jerash ©Lee Cohen USAID/Jordan