15/09/2026
Jordan Relief Mission Delivers Food and School Bags to Thousands 🎒
941 families and 1,293 students supported across the country's toughest regions.
This past month, Tzu Chi volunteers set out across Jordan — through desert heat, remote valleys, and some of the hardest places in the country to reach.
The first stop was Al-Mafraq, where temperatures climb to nearly 42°C. Children ran barefoot across the burning ground just to reach breakfast. Volunteers handed out food parcels — sugar, rice, cooking oil, lentils, bulgur, and beans — enough to help families get through several the weeks.
Further south, in Ghor Al-Safi, 600 more parcels went out to households having a hard time making ends meet. In two other southern communities, volunteers also brought foam clogs, so children wouldn't have to walk the scorching ground with nothing on their feet.
But food wasn't the only thing on volunteers' minds. With the new school year underway, over 1,000 school bags with stationery were also making their way to students across the Southern Ghor district. At one school, a father carried his son — who has muscle atrophy and cannot stand unaided — through the heat, just to make sure he got his bag.
"Despite the bleak circumstances surrounding them, they still found joy," one volunteer said. And nowhere was that clearer than in a boy named Ali. Offered extra cake for being older, Ali waited until the younger kids nearby had some too. Even with so little, he made sure no one was left out.
Great love transcends borders — and in Jordan, that love shows up one family, one child, at a time.
佛教慈濟Buddhist Tzu Chi in Jordan
