The main objective of UniRef is to provide free access to higher education and professional vocational training to refugees in order to facilitate their social and professional integration.
Education promotes social inclusion, cultural diversity, reduces poverty, and constitutes an extremely valuable tool when trying to improve and rebuild the future prospects of young refugees and the host community. For reconstruction and economic development, a « solid human capital » is needed, and education provides it.
This is why our aim is to avoid a generation to be sacrificed by enabling people who have dropped out of school to have a chance to continue their education.
In Jordan, UniRef is officially accredited by the Jordanian Ministry of Tertiary Education, the Jordanian Ministry of Labour and the Jordanian Ministry of Health. Jordan UniRef’s students are given the chance to pass an official exam with the proper training.