RIYADH: The Saudi National Campaign (SNC) to help Syrian refugees provided vocational training to 350 students living in Al-Zaatari camp in northern Jordan, supporting them to join various jobs available.

“The campaign, with the support of the Saudi center for education and training in the Zaatari refugee camp, successfully implemented the training program, which included skill-based training and the rehabilitation of 350 male and female students of different age groups,” said an SNC official here on Sunday.

He said that the training program, titled “Your future is in your hand,” included an intensive lecture program supplemented by practical classes for two months.

It was organized through a series of short duration courses in computer and basic science, Arabic language, mathematics, health education, courses in sewing for the garment industry, and training in the textile arts and craft business, he added.

Many of the female students were also given cooking training between the lectures to learn skills for eateries and food storage.

These students, after successfully completing training, will obtain jobs in organizations and agencies working in the camp.

The official further pointed out that the training program aims to provide vocational and cognitive skills for the development of the Syrian brothers and sisters to enable them to live a dignified and productive life, and promote self-reliance in the midst of the asylum conditions that surround them.

In addition to such vocational training, SNC has comprehensive relief programs and is making concerted efforts to help distressed Syrian brothers and sisters in all walks of life.

Apart from the relief and humanitarian role, SNC continues in the fight against illiteracy in the camp through tutorial classes for children from these distressed families and has also organized health camps to avoid health risks in the camp.

The campaign has set up 13 specialized clinics, a psychiatric unit, laboratory, X-ray department and a pharmacy in Al-Zaatari camp to provide medical assistance for communicable and non-communicable diseases at these clinics. Doctors have also handled a number of psychiatric patients who were badly affected by the conditions that drove them to become refugees.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, recently commended the Kingdom for its sincere efforts to care and support distressed Syrians refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.