Around a third of the 8.2 million people in Jordan are refugees, including 2.1 million people from Palestine, 656,000 people from Syria and 59,000 people from Iraq. Approximately 20% of the Syrian refugees in Jordan live in refugee camps, while the majority are living in host communities in the northern and central governorates, where basic services including health, education and water supply have been severely overstretched. Islamic Relief has a main office in Amman and field offices in Mafraq and Ramtha, with forty members of staff across all three. Through our substantial presence in Jordan, we are supporting both refugees and vulnerable host communities by providing food, health care, education and psycho-social support in Amman, Mafraq, Ramtha, Jarash, Irbid, Baqa'a, Karak, and Ma'an. In the past five years we have reached 869,246 people. Our work in Jordan began in 1997 with an orphan and child welfare programme. We are currently assisting 1,800 orphans across the country by providing cash and psycho-social support.