COLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT
Helping you help refugees in Jordan
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
CRP is a grassroots effort in Amman, Jordan bringing much-needed assistance to vulnerable communities. We seek to assist those in need, foster social cohesion, and build peace and reconciliation. Our services are provided regardless of background and nationality, and we provide assistance to vulnerable Jordanians as well as people from Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Emergency Assistance
Rescuing refugees from hunger is the bedrock of our Emergency Assistance Program. Refugees in Jordan are forbidden by law to work, so food security is crucial–and always at the top of their minds. The families we serve live in dire poverty and, without CRP’s monthly food vouchers, they would have to beg for food or go without. While other organizations give one-time food supplies such as rice and lentils, our program gives refugee families the flexibility to purchase what they need. They come once a month to pick up their vouchers, which they use to purchase groceries and fresh produce at a local supermarket.
Community Center
Our Family Resource and Community Center is at the heart of our community building work. It serves as a safe haven for refugees to begin rebuilding the social ties they have lost after fleeing their home countries.
We run a variety of educational and community-building activities, including English and computer classes, yoga and self-care sessions, a children’s after school club, and more!
After School Club
The ASC aims to provide a safe space of learning for children at the age from 7-12 years. All classes are led by international and community volunteers. The children are taught basics in English, Arabic, Maths, and Geography.
English Classes
English classes are taking place daily in the CRP Community and Resource Center. They are led by nativ English-speaking volunteers. Our aim is to provide the beneficiaries with language skills to empower themselves. For many this is an opportunity to prepare for a new life in case of resettlement.
Empowering Female Leaders
The women's empowerment aims to create active and strong female leaders in our community. Issues discussed during the classes include Human Rights, Women's Rights, the role of the women in the family, society, economy, and politics as well as communication skills. The workshops are led by community members who have participated in a training program.
Gender-Based Violence Awareness Training
The Gender-Based Violence Awareness Training aims to educate men and women about gender equality. The training is led by community members who previousely participated in a training program. The prospect is to initiate change in patriarchal households, end gender discrimination, and stop gender-based violence.
Psycho-social Wellness Classes
Collateral Repair Project believes that emotional support and trauma relief are integral for refugees. Together with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, CRP began the Mind-Body-Medicine Program. This program is available to men, women, and teens, in separate groups that each meet once per week.
Daycare Center
CRP’s Daycare Center provides care for children aged nine months to six years old. This program began in March 2018. The center provides a space for our beneficiaries’ children to play freely and rest, and offers guided instruction and activities.
Preschool
CRP provides a structured, daily preschool program that promotes positive social skills, trauma sensitivity and acceptance, and a positive play-based learning environment in addition to teaching the foundations of literacy and numeracy. The program is inspired by the Montessori teaching method and is designed to create an optimal foundation for young children between the ages of three and four.
Hope Workshop
One of our livelihoods programs combining practical, vocational training with avenues for generating income, the Hope Workshop Women’s Collective provides 84 women with the space and materials they need to produce goods for sale in local bazaars and online.
The weekly 'Listening Circle' supports the development of individual resilience and social cohesion among participants.
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our programs seek to restore dignity and community among displaced urban refugees as well as to ensure that their basic needs are met. Through these efforts we aim to foster peace and reconciliation.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1. A stable foundation
In order to build a new life, refugees need a stable foundation. The Emergency Assistance Program provides urban refugees with essentials to meet their basic needs like food, bedding, and household supplies. Ensuring food security is the first step for refugees to start building up a new life. CRP carefully assesses individuals and families to ensure they meet our eligibility criteria for assistance. To verify eligibility, CRP conducts home visits and interviews with beneficiaries, and, where possible, cross-references their information with other aid organizations. Nationality or religion are not a criteria for eligibility.
2. Coping with loss and trauma
Refugees are at a high risk of isolation and depression. Past trauma and uncertainty about their place in a new community can lead people to stay close to home, avoid social contact, and neglect their health. CRP offers refugees a safe place where they can connect with other members of the community, build and share their skills, and get information and support which promotes their health and wellness. Regain the sense of community lost during wars and conflict helps refugees to heal and have new hope for a better future.
3. Empowering community
Our programs aim to restore dignity and humanity between the community members. We seek to provide them with tools for empowerment such as English language skills and computer skills. CRP is running trainings and workshops on gender-based violence awareness and women's empowerment. These grassroot projects are successfully run by trainers from the CRP community itself. They are refugees themselves, and have participate in a training that entitles them to run the workshops in the future. The topics discussed in the workshop include gender-roles, women's rights and traditional family structures. All these issues are very sensitive and private. The fact that they are addressed by trainers from the community, make the possibility of change and success more real because the workshop participants can identify themselves with the trainers on a very authentic level.
With these efforts we hope to prevent the creation of a lost and forgotten generation caused by war and violence around the region.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
CRP's strengths include a wealth of knowledge about the refugee community in East Amman and strong relationships with the beneficiaries we serve. Because of this, CRP has cultivated strong grassroots support from beneficiaries, many of whom go on to become volunteers. The CRP network is inclusive for people in need, and helps to spread information about support and services. Many of our beneficiaries learn about CRP through their neighbors, friends, or families.
Thanks to our kind supporters we can deliver essential aid to the beneficiaries, and cover the costs for our current community programs. But the need of urban refugees is still far bigger than our resources.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Collateral Repair Project has instituted a very successful Food Voucher Program in which refugees families are given coupons each month to purchase groceries and fresh produce at a local neighborhood store.
The Community and Resource Center offers a variety of educational and recreational programs and activities for all age groups.
We would like to be able to expand our programs and emergency aid throughout Amman, as the struggle of urban refugees is not limited to our neighbourhoods. We would like to broaden our network and reach as many people as possible to give assistance to people in need in Amman.
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COLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT
Board of directorsas of 01/25/2023
Ms. Melinda Wells
Canadian Red Cross
Term: 2016 - 2020
Allison Monroe
Language Learning Market
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.