Meet Our Ministry Partner In Jordan!
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This post was originally sent as an email newsletter to CHLF supporters on December 3rd, 2025.
Today, December 3rd, is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which makes it the perfect moment to highlight one of the most courageous and visionary ministry partners we work with: Inclusive Jordan.
Founded in 2019 by special educator Ghadeer Hamarneh, Inclusive Jordan exists to reshape how an entire nation understands and engages disability. For decades, people with disabilities in Jordan have been pushed to the margins. Many were separated from their families and placed in institutions. Most public buildings remain inaccessible. Schools lack the training and resources to welcome children with disabilities. Reliable transportation is scarce. The barriers are deep and structural.
Inclusive Jordan is working to change all of that. Their mission is to end institutionalization and help Jordan move toward a future where people with and without disabilities grow, learn, worship, and navigate life side by side. They carry a simple conviction with enormous implications: God’s love is for all, and every person deserves a community that makes room for them.
Check out this video about the 2024–2025 Camp For All, Inclusive Jordan’s flagship program that began as a summer camp in 2023:
The ongoing deinstitutionalization model expands on Camp For All and now includes:
• Respite camps for children and families
• Home coaching sessions for families
• Mothers’ support groups
• Family days out
• Community-Based Rehabilitation
• Assessments and follow-up visits
• Safeguarding policy review and implementation
• On-call support services
• Development of a family home session kit
Inclusive Jordan isn’t working alone. They have become trusted partners to major government bodies in Jordan, helping shape national policy and practice. It is remarkable to consider what this means: the government of Jordan, a Muslim-majority country, has chosen an openly Christian organization to lead the national effort toward deinstitutionalization. That kind of trust is rare. It speaks to integrity, expertise, and years of faithful presence.
At an event this July, an official partnership was formed between Inclusive Jordan, the Higher Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Department of Social Development. International expert Georgette Mulheir said:
“I have worked in 34 countries, and the initiatives by Inclusive Jordan stand out as among the most impactful for children with severe and multiple disabilities. This model has proven what is possible. The next step is to ensure that children across Jordan can benefit from such inclusive, family-based support and return from institutions to their homes.”
This is the kind of work that changes the trajectory of a nation. Families are being reunited. Caregivers are finding strength and companionship. Children who were hidden away are now learning, playing, flourishing, and being welcomed as image-bearers of God. This is the work of Jesus, who never walked past those the world overlooked. Inclusive Jordan is giving Jordan a living picture of what it means to see, love, and stand with those who are too often forgotten.
This kind of impact is drawing others in as well. When we shared about this ministry with one of our partner organizations, a Messianic-led ministry in Israel, their response was immediate. They offered to join us by matching our financial support for Inclusive Jordan. It was a simple, compassionate act of solidarity that reminded us what genuine partnership looks like when the Kingdom is the priority. Across theological and cultural lines, people are recognizing the unique power of this ministry to special needs children and their families.
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