{"id":328366,"date":"2016-06-21T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/volunteering-in-jordanian-refugee-camps\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:27","slug":"volunteering-in-jordanian-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/volunteering-in-jordanian-refugee-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering in Jordanian Refugee Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_139931\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foreignoffice\/9660903303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139931\" class=\"wp-image-139931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/staticflickr_com_3_2884_9660903303_c76f11ef2d_b_cropped1.jpg\" alt=\"staticflickr_com_3_2884_9660903303_c76f11ef2d_b_cropped\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-139931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refugee camp, Jordan. Photo credit: Flickr<\/p><\/div>  <strong>A letter from Amman, Jordan, signed by Wael Suleiman, <\/strong>Director of Caritas Jordan, who oversees the arrival of refugees from Iraq, Syria and Paletsine: \u201cLife has no sense anymore for the people in the Middle East. Darkness everywhere. Fear. Death. Hatred. Refugees. Camps. But the ideal that keeps us going, in spite of it all is the daily discovery of God who is still there, who is still Love and loves us immensely and that love is still stronger..\u201d.  This is the strong belief that keeps the Director of Caritas Jordan moving. And his faith is accompanied by action, the daily efforts of many volunteers, as well as the outside help that comes from several international projects. Among them is \u201cHOST SPOT\u201d proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-humanity.org\">New Humanity<\/a>, an NGO, with associates from 9 European and Middle Eastern countries for spreading a culture of understanding and the promotion of human rights. On August 7 \u2013 August 19, 2016 a group of young people from different countries will go to volunteer at welcoming centres in Jordan. The experience will give them a face-to-face encounter with what refugees face each day.  The young people are from all backgrounds and are prepared to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills that will enable them to engage in the production of documentaries that tell the real life stories of the refugees and promote freedom of expression. The project includes a meeting with\u00a0 refugees who are fleeing the Syrian and Iraqi conflict and seeking refuge in Jordan.  <a href=\"https:\/\/eacea.ec.europa.eu\/erasmus-plus_en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-139955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Logo_Erasmus-.jpg\" alt=\"Logo_Erasmus+\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a>HOST SPOT is financed by the European Community Erasmus +. The name plays on the European notion of a \u2018hot spot\u2019 as a point of arrival where refugees can be welcomed. The word \u201cSPOT\u201d stands for the short commercial-like television or radio spots that will be part of major television and radio programming, and the production of a major video.  After Jordan, a training course is planned for Turkey in October 2016. It will offer training in journalism and storytelling for the promotion of human rights and, in particular, freedom of expression. A further course will be held in Germany in March 2017 for developing basic technical production skills for social documentaries with live filming. There will be opportunities to meet the refugees in the German refugee camps and compare different approaches and systems for welcoming them.  The project that underscores encounter and reciprocity hopes to document and film the personal stories and daily life of refugees in the camps, providing the public with more information for understanding the refugees, and for informing their conscience.  &nbsp;  Info: <a href=\"mailto:info@new-humanity.org\">info@new-humanity.org<\/a>  Maria Chiara De Lorenzo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal of the Focolare Movment\u2019s New Humanity in collaboration with Caritas Jordan, Starmacher and other associations. The project\u2019s aim is to document stories and events linked to the dramatic exodus taking place in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}