Jordan

Dua’a Bisharat, principal of Saviour’s Episcopal School in Zarqa, Jordan, talks with AFEDJ’s John Lent about the mission of the school and current conditions in Jordan. The conversation took place via Zoom on July 7, 2020. Saviour’s Episcopal School is a progressive K-12 school in...

When your mission is to provide a safe haven, quality education, and hope for a bright future to vulnerable and impoverished refugee children, a strategic plan to sustain that work is critically important. In early October the Theodor Schneller School in Marka, Jordan, received a...

The Most Rev. Suheil S. Dawani, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and Archbishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East traveled to New York in early October. On October 3 about 150 AFEDJ supporters and friends gathered at...

The board of the Theodor Schneller School has voted to begin a strategic planning process. The school will work with AFEDJ to apply for a planning grant that will fund a comprehensive study and position the school for a bright future.  Schneller School serves 270 impoverished...

Before 2003 blind and visually-impaired children in Irbid, Jordan, had no options for education besides traveling an hour each way to Amman. That’s when the Rev. Samir Esaid and Mrs. Sabah Zurikat founded the Arab Episcopal School in Irbid, a city of about 1.7 million...

A safe haven of peace for 150 children and young people ages four to 25, the Holy Land Institute for the Deaf in Salt, Jordan, offers a full range of therapeutic services for hearing-impaired, deaf, and deaf-blind students and a K-12 academic boarding program. Each...

In 1860, Johann Schneller, a German missionary, founded a home in Jerusalem for boys who lost their parents in the con ict between the Christians and the Druze, with his son Theodor taking over in 1889. One legacy of the original “Syrian Orphanage” is the...

In Zarka, the second largest city in Jordan, the tensions and economic strain of a vast influx of Syrian refugees often cause families under financial stress to choose to educate their sons but pull their daughters from school. But at Saviour’s School, a K-12 school...