Jordan
Schneller School in Jordan to pursue strategic planning grant
June 6, 2019- Posted in Education, Jordan
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...
Institution Spotlight: Arab Episcopal School Irbid, Jordan
May 2, 2019- Posted in Disabilities, Education, Institution Spotlight, Jordan
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...
Institution Spotlight: Holy Land Institute For The Deaf – Salt, Jordan
April 3, 2019- Posted in Disabilities, Institution Spotlight, Jordan
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...
Harold C. Smith Foundation Gifts Transform Children’s Lives Across Jordan
January 28, 2019- Posted in Disabilities, Education, Jordan, Supporters
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...
Saviour’s School: A Safe Haven For Empowering A “Can Do Generation” Of Girls
November 30, 2018- Posted in Education, Jordan
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...