MAFRAQ, Jordan [ACTED News] – The Zaatari refugee camp, set up more than 10 months ago to host Syrian refugees in the North of Jordan, has reached a population of approximately 120,000 persons. With support from UNICEF, ACTED has been conducting hygiene promotion activities since the camp’s opening and ACTED is constantly improving its intervention and the involvement of refugees in its daily activities.
With this purpose, since mid April, ACTED’s 80-person hygiene promotion team has been performing ‘hygiene promotion blitzes’ – a community-level initiative to engage participants and help clean community facilities and community areas and increase general awareness of good hygiene practices. This has been achieved through conducting activities such as distributing children’s hygiene-awareness colouring books, playing games with hygiene-related messages, and holding focus group discussions surrounding the maintenance and community ownership of toilet blocks. ACTED performs a hygiene “blitz” throughout one day in each neighbourhood within the camp. To date, ACTED’s hygiene promotion team has covered approximately 40% of Zaatari refugee camp and is currently continuing to perform hygiene blitzes to reach the entire refugee population