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“I’m very happy to be back in school now.”

Across most of Australia, the start of 2021 meant kids were back in their uniforms, lunch-boxes were packed, and classrooms were full again. Rafif is also back in school now - in Jordan, but it’s been a long and difficult journey. After losing her father and older sister during the war in Syria, her family [...]

Messages of hope for Aus bushfire survivors from Syrians

There are no kangaroos in Syria or Jordan, but nine-year-old twin brothers Anas and Ayman couldn’t stop thinking about the Australian animals and people affected by the ongoing bushfires. Syrian refugees living in Jordan, Anas and Ayman first heard about the out-of-control bushfires that have ravaged Australia in their CARE art therapy classes – sessions […]

CARE warns of mass displacement in Syria

AMMAN, JORDAN: As Turkey begins a new military operation in northern Syria, CARE is deeply concerned about the risk any escalation in violence will pose to civilians. Unconfirmed sources already point to population movements out of Syrian towns bordering Turkey. Military action is likely to trigger mass displacement and disrupt humanitarian aid delivery to vulnerable […]

How this teenager went from fleeing Syria to competing in the Olympics

Azraq refugee camp in Jordan is home to more than 40,000 refugees who have fled the continuing violence in Syria. Children who have suffered, lost loved ones, and witnessed horrific atrocities can be forever altered by their trauma. CARE helps them recover and get their lives back on track by providing a variety of educational, [...]

“My youngest son is as old as the war.”

Mariam* seated next to her eight-year-old son, Mahmoud, discusses the struggles of being a single mother to four children during the war in Syria. “Two months before the war started, my husband had a heart attack and died. I was heavily pregnant at the time and gave birth to my son Mahmoud when the conflict […]

Australia helping to keep refugee children in school in Jordan

CARE Australia is thrilled by the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to increase funding to assist the refugee crisis in Jordan. It will help some of the world’s most vulnerable people to lift themselves out of poverty. Since the war in Syria started in 2011, more than 655,000 Syrians have fled to safety in neighbouring […]

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