German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock has called for an expansion of international refugee aid to Jordan during a visit to the country.
Baerbock made this call on Friday when he visited a refugee camp near the Jordanian capital Amman.
According to him, many schools in Jordan had been closed, in some cases for the past 18 months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
She said she had spoken with the camp’s management “about how we can provide support in the area of education, so that children can go back to school.”
It is “important that we not only continue international aid, but also expand it, especially within the framework of the United Nations,” she said.
Baerbock said that Germany was the second-largest donor in Jordan.
The Green politician said she would examine where Germany could provide more support for Jordan, for example in the area of solar power.
“The sun is shining here right now. We see that we actually have a lot of roofs where we could put solar on top.”
The Talbieh refugee settlement was built in 1968 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for people displaced in Israel in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War.
About 9,500 people currently live in the camp, which was originally built to house 5,000.
Baerbock arrived in Jordan on Thursday evening from Israel and Palestinian Territories, she was to continue her first official Mideast tour in Egypt.