From December 2013 to December 2014, our 'Sa'a Suriyya' (The Hour of Syria) 'Radio-Emergency' programme was active, involving Syrian refugee children in Jordan in the production and broadcast of news reports on their situation.
The aim was to give a voice to the Syrian community that fled the violence in the country, providing them with a dedicated space, with a focus on young people and women.
The programme was broadcast by Radio Yarmouk, the radio station of the University of Irbid, a city in the north of Jordan, and hosted 16 broadcasts involving experts, doctors and operators of humanitarian organisations who addressed sensitive issues from time to time. From child exploitation to gender-based violence, from human trafficking to the right to education, including practical information on access to education and basic health services to which refugees were entitled.
In each broadcast, in addition to interviews with emergency actors, there were musical segments chosen by the young autorə and practical information on how to access the services available to refugees in Jordan.
The project was supported by the Swedish and Japanese Cooperation and Unesco, which then narrated its main stages through a documentary.
This was accompanied by the distribution of 3,000 portable radios to the Syrian refugee community in the four governorates of Jordan where other projects as part of our programme of assistance and support to Syrian refugees were underway: Amman, Zarqa, Irbid and Mafraq, to make information from Sa'a Suriya accessible to allə.
