JEA begins annual campaign to repair homes of underprivileged families

AMMAN — The Jordanian Engineers Association (JEA) on Monday announced that their annual Fazet Ahel campaign to repair underprivileged families’ homes will be launched on December 20, through a radiothon held in cooperation with Husna Radio which will aim to collect donations. 

“Our purpose with this campaign is to give underprivileged families across the Kingdom an opportunity to live a good, decent life,” chief of the campaign Ahmed Falahat told The Jordan Times, noting that the JEA “is not only about engineering, but also about helping locals and protecting social life”.

This will be the second edition of the Fazet Ahel campaign, which concluded a successful round last year by repairing 31 homes at a cost of JD125,000. 

“Over 1,000 families have applied to have their homes repaired so far, but the number of houses we will be able to repair this year depends on the amount of donations we get,” Falahat said. 

“We are seeking to collect more funds to expand the number of houses to be repaired this year,” he added, calling on the private sector “to cooperate with the JEA and contribute to the campaign with anything they can offer, from financial aid to technical assistance”.

“It is not only about the money,” Falahat stressed. 

When asked about the selection of the homes to benefit from the campaign, Falahat explained that “the JEA receives data from the Ministry of Social Development and other competent authorities, and the social conditions of the applicants are examined in terms of the number of individuals and the status of the home”. 

“The JEA has engineers all across the Kingdom, we always go see the houses ourselves, and, many times, they do not even have a bathroom or a kitchen,” he explained, expressing that “we need to cooperate to help them and we have to take care of each other”.