MIDDLE EAST PEACE BUILDING - Youth Team Building Support in Refugee Host Communities

After a week of shadowing their team, visiting multiple host communities and attending many events and workshops by their delegates, volunteers and leaders, the Inti Raymi Fund directly supported the Generations for Peace Organization with a $25,000 contribution.  This contribution provided necessary funds to expand their existing local programs in Jordan, work with the Syrian War Refugees as well as the local Jordanians who are coexisting and or are Host Families of the Refugees from the Syrian and Iraq Wars.

In addition to visiting the Host Families and Communities, the Inti Raymi Fund was able to visit the infamous Za’atari Refugee Camp https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/syria-war-jordan-zaatari-refugee-camp-180326115809170.html with an estimated 80,000 refugees in northern Jordan along the Syrian border.  These facilities are graciously supported in large part by the Jordanian Government, UNHCR and outside international donors and through the continued patience of the Jordanian citizens who are severely negatively impacted.  The continuous spillover of refugees from the war torn regions of Syria & Iraq are an indescribable, indirect consequence of War.  Considering all of the Syrian War Refugees in Jordan is estimated at 1.40mm, roughly 85% of the them are relocated within the Jordanian Society itself inside host family’s homes with the remaining 15% situated inside the many UNHCR camps or “unofficial camps”.  This “tip of the iceberg” phenomenon is hard to fathom when walking inside this enormous Za’atari Camp itself, being only 15% of the issue.

This massive influx of Refugees into the existing Jordanian population has caused intense psychological and physical pressure on Jordanian citizens in addition to the financial burdens of price inflation on rents, food, water, utilities,  medical services, and an increase in theft and other crimes which have increased.

The Inti Raymi Fund believes in the Generations for Peace Organization so much, that we have contributed $25,000. We encourage you to contribute directly into their efforts at Generations for Peace not only because of their brilliant, paradigm shifting insights and programs towards creating a more peaceful future in the Middle East, but also because of their approach is led with Respect and Dignity helping those less fortunate.

We encourage you to visit them at Generations for Peace or in person in Amman, Jordan where they would love to show you what they are passionate about.

The graciousness and respect exhibited by the team at GFP is due in part to HRH Prince Feisal bin Hussein of Jordan, who’s vision and support helps make the Generations for Peace Organization possible. We thank Prince Hussein for taking time to visit with us while visiting their headquarters in Amman. 

In addition to our Program described above,  we directed additional contributions from donors below:

Steve Glasgow:      $500 – into Generations for Peace

Cyrus Rhodes:       $500 – into Generations for Peace

Chimu(extra):        $2,000 – Support for Afghani, Iraqi & Syrian Refugees in route

The Inti Raymi Fund became aware of this project from articles like the one below and many others by Al Jazeera. 

Our video below showing the long endless drive into the expansive Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Evidence of the extent of the collateral damage of wars.