A woman who founded a work supporting Iraqi refugees in 2014, has seen the organisation grow to support almost 2,500 refugees in the last year.
Al-Hadaf (The Purpose) is an NGO run with the help of volunteers from Jordanian churches. It offers a boutique for secondhand clothes, a room for trauma workshops and training, and an art-therapy room for children. It also runs health clinics.
‘I had a choice’
Once proud, hardworking men and women, the Iraqi refugees were being given out-of-date food and had to find clothes to wear by trawling through a huge pile of second-hand items that somebody had just left for them on the floor. Maran says: ‘I visited them, but when I saw how they were treated I did not like it [and] I had a choice: either I would keep crying and stay heartbroken, or I could do something about it. So, I said: ‘Let’s do something about it.”’
