Images from Jordan
Photos by Don Hinrichsen

Educating girls is an important development effort for the country as a whole.
A project, sponsored by the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation through a grant from UNFPA, has helped 500 women in the farming village of Bani Kinana set up income generating activities. This woman bought five milk cows.
An industrial sewing collective in the community of Al Tafileh, established by the Hashemite Fund for Human Development, one of UNFPA’s main partner organizations, provides a steady income for 10 young women.
Subhi Beshara (on left) bought a tractor with a loan from the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation. With 10 children and a disabled husband, her tractor is the only means of support for the family.
Fawzia Um Muhammad (center) is 46 years old and has 11 children – seven girls and four boys. In order to increase the family’s income, she obtained a modest loan of 500 dinars from the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation. With this money she was able to plant a backyard garden with medicinal herbs and spices, using drip irrigation techniques to conserve water.
Fawzia and husband (left) with some of their children, harvest oregano, mint, sage, mustard plants, onions and vine leaves which they sell to buyers from as far away as Damascus and Amman.
In the remote community of Al Tafileh, near the Dead Sea, the Hashemite Fund for Human Development, with UNFPA assistance, has launched a project that provides a constellation of services –a grade school and kindergarten, a youth club, vocational training and skills development for young women and the provision of reproductive health and family planning services, all under one roof.
At a reproductive health clinic in Amman, Jordan’s capital, modern and traditional cultures sit side-by-side while awaiting counseling on contraceptive choice.
Queen Noor helps in planting medicinal herbs, one of the six pilot income-generating schemes established by the Women-in-Development project, sponsored by the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation.
In the small farming community of Iraq Al Amir, in northern Jordan, children watch a puppet theater. The theme of the show is the need to educate girls so that they can contribute to the economic welfare of their families.


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