Jordan[Syrian refugees] Blog

WASH committee in the camp

2013.05.23

JEN has been working together with UNICEF to establish WASH committee all ten areas of the camp and support their activities.

It has been three months since we established first WASH committee in the camp and
discussion among committee members become active these days. One of the hot issues discussed during meetings is how to maintain and clean WASH facilities as vandalism/ looting is still on going. At the same time, we provide several trainings to members in terms of hygiene awareness, organizational and financial in order to increase their capacity.

Currently meetings are chaired by JEN field staffs, however soon those meetings will be chaired by committee members.

Sanitary situation of the camp become worse and worse as temperature of the country is increasing. We cooperate with other WASH colleagues and committee members to tackle the issue and spray hygiene message to people in the camp.