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Squash Dreamers is a US 501c(3) based in Amman, Jordan, dedicated to empowering refugee and underserved girls through sports, education, and wellbeing programming. Our goal is to ensure they reach their full potential.
The programme is long-term, intensive, and holistic, and is designed to ensure that each girl enhances her physical and emotional wellbeing and stays in school until 18, therefore avoiding early marriage. We provide a culturally sensitive safe space for every girl to play sports, study and remain healthy, supporting girls in accessing higher education, work, and enrichment opportunities. Squash Dreamers is, at its core, a family and we work to meet each girl at her point of need. 
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Our beneficiaries
At Squash Dreamers, our work is focused on girls who need our support most, and as such, we only work with girls whose family income falls below 500JD/ $705 per month, and who attend government run shift-system schools.
We work with both refugee and underserved girls, and do not have any restrictions on nationalities. Our students come from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Sudan, and all bring their own culture and heritage to our community.
We work with both refugee and underserved girls, and do not have any restrictions on nationalities. Our students come from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Sudan, and all bring their own culture and heritage to our community.
The schools that our students attend are run on morning and afternoon shifts, in response to supporting a large number of refugee and Jordanian students. The length of the school day varies across areas and semesters with students attending for 3-5 hours per day in over-crowded classrooms of up to 50 students. UNICEF reports that only 34% of refugee girls are enrolled in secondary education, with only 10-15% achieving the necessary passmark in their final exams to be able to access higher education.
Overcrowding and poor attainment often leads families to choose for their daughters to marry before 18, hoping that this provides a securer future for them.
All of our students live in east Amman, where access to quality education is more difficult, and even girls registered in school have inconsistent attendance and low levels of literacy, with some still unable to read and write at age 13. Conservative values and a lack of social interaction negatively impacts childhood development and a lack of culturally appropriate safe and public spaces in the community further inhibits girls’ opportunities to play sports and participate meaningfully in community spaces.
Overcrowding and poor attainment often leads families to choose for their daughters to marry before 18, hoping that this provides a securer future for them.
All of our students live in east Amman, where access to quality education is more difficult, and even girls registered in school have inconsistent attendance and low levels of literacy, with some still unable to read and write at age 13. Conservative values and a lack of social interaction negatively impacts childhood development and a lack of culturally appropriate safe and public spaces in the community further inhibits girls’ opportunities to play sports and participate meaningfully in community spaces.
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