Collateral Repair Podcast

With the fall slowly approaching, the CRP summer camp ends and kids are slowly returning back to school to begin a new school year. This is why we have decided to make the education of kids, and especially teens, the focal point of this episode. Displaced children face many barriers when integrating into a school system in a different country, and CRP is trying to ease the pressure of all the changes by providing a number of programs for kids and teens. First, our  Community Center Programs Manager Jessie will fill you in on the situation in Jordan with regards to the education of displaced children. After that, you will hear about the unique CRP program “Teen All-Stars” from its coordinator Alaa, and to wrap up, two of the teens from the program will share their experiences from it.

In our tenth episode, we're talking about English. English is a cornerstone of opportunity for refugees at CRP and all over Amman. Our first interview is with Sameer, 20, from Homs, Syria, who began taking classes at CRP almost two years ago and is now nearly fluent. We explore Sameer's backstory fleeing Homs and coming to Jordan, and why he decided to focus on learning English so intensively, as many refugees do. We also sit down with Megan Mcgeough, the English class coordinator at CRP to discuss her responsibilities and challenges with teaching English as well as the positive and negative implications of English's influence in Amman and around the world.

For this special holiday episode, we have four, shorter interviews with beneficiaries and volunteers at Collateral Repair Project about their own traditions and takeaways concerning the month of Ramadan. We focus on the differences on Ramadan in Jordan versus their home countries as well as their own exploration of what giving back during this month means to them, specifically through CRP.

For the eighth episode of the Collateral Repair Podcast, we talk about Christian refugees in Iraq who had to flee their homes due to religious extremism. We sit down with Nasir, who was given three options when the Islamic State invaded his home of Qaraqosh, pay a tax, convert or be killed. He also talks about fleeing to Kurdistan, and being cornered in a larger political argument, as he was asked to support the Kurdish referendum for independence, something that would jeopardize his safety as an Iraqi, or once again face threats against his and his family’s wellbeing. We also discuss Nasir’s background as a photographer, and his job taking photos of his hometown after ISIS left.

In this month's episode of Collateral Repair Podcast, we sit down with Nasir, an Iraqi Christian from the Qaraqosh. Qaraqosh is the largest Christian city in the country, located in the Nineveh plain in the northern area of Iraq. Nasir and his family were forced to flee when ISIS invaded Qaraqosh in 2014, he sat down with us to tell his story. FULL EPISODE APRIL 5th