Britain offers £ 55 million to support refugees in Jordan

The British government has pledged £ 55 million (about 49 million Jordanian dinars) to support refugees in Jordan over three years. Britain's Department for International Development (DFID) said in a statement published Thursday that the new financial contribution will provide financial assistance to the 22,000 most vulnerable Syrian refugees and have come to Jordan because of the internal crisis since 2011. The announcement of the pledge of new financial aid came after the visit of the Minister of International Development Rory Stewart to Jordan this week, where he visited a project to generate electricity from solar energy in the Za'tari refugee camp in the Syrian province of Mafraq, northern Jordan, and met with Jordanian officials.

The statement referred to British support for the Eye Scanning Technology Project, which has contributed to improving the efficiency of cash support programs to enable the largest number of refugees living in Al Zaatari camp to shop and purchase a wide variety of goods, giving them a sense of normalcy and dignity. "I can not think of a better country than Jordan anywhere in the world," Stuart said on his first overseas visit since his appointment as Minister of International Development. "Our work with refugees in Zaatari camp is to help the Jordanian economy grow and the unemployed young Jordanians Working to find jobs, it is about helping to create security and stability in one of the most fragile areas in the world. "