March Regional Update

March 20, 2013.

Questscope and its partners commit to the people they serve. This commitment does not change based on circumstances. In Syria, Questscope’s partner organization - the Syrian Society for Social Development (SSSD) - has provided life-saving assistance to thousands of internally displaced Syrians in Damascus over the past three months.

SSSD is currently working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other partners to rehabilitate more than 25 damaged buildings - schools, homes, local government buildings - to serve as temporary housing for Syrians who have...MORE

Mentoring in Za’atari Camp

March 20, 2013.

“How can you form relationships in a place where there are no rules?”

A Syrian man in his mid-40s tearfully asked this question while seated in a tent in Za’atari Refugee Camp. He was thinking about his own children, his friends’ children, and the youth he works with every day as a teacher in Za’atari’s formal school.

“What do you tell a boy whose brothers are dead, whose father is still in Syria, and whose mother has other children to look after?” The same man continued with a tone of hopelessness, stuck both emotionally and physically in Jordan - so close to his...MORE