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    Syria crisis: Will donor fatigue push refugees back too soon?

    Oct 31, 2018 4 minutes
    Syrian and Jordanian children learn how to wash their hands at a hygiene tutorial at a UNICEF-supported Makani center in north Amman. Amid funding cuts for Syrian refugees, 100 of these centers have been closed.

    Yusra Ajaj is facing a life or death decision.

    A widowed mother of three, Ms. Ajaj is considering leaving Jordan, the country she has called home since war consumed her homeland and killed her husband in 2013.

    After nearly five years, her life is once again in upheaval. In April, the United Nations stopped her monthly cash assistance of $210, which she relied upon to pay rent. Then in September, the UN cut her monthly $175 in food vouchers, which she had recently resorted to selling on the black market in order to pay her bills.

    Now Ajaj is faced with what she describes as “two worst cases” – poverty and homelessness in Jordan, or return to Syria. Worse still, she says the decision is being made for her.

    “I fear that the

    A snowball effectKeeping kids in schoolSyria reconstructionToo soon to relocate

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