Syrian boys at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan fill water jugs at a communal tap. The IRC is doing its part to support thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

Women and children comprise approximately 75% of Syrian refugees, and have specific needs

Students at a primary school in the West Bank interact with their teacher and classmates. This is one of the classes where teachers have been trained in the IRC's 'Healing Classrooms' approach to education. 

A father carries his daughter through the Za'atri refugee camp in northern Jordan. The new camp currently houses close to 6,000 Syrian refugees, but is capable of expanding to accomodate more than 100,000. Refugees have been complaining about conditions at the camp.

Syrian women await a distribution of aid in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. Women and girls fleeing Syria say they have been directly targeted in the ongoing conflict.

Most Syrian refugee families like this one have found homes in apartments in Jordan, but with the recent surge in refugee arrivals, the Jordanian government opened its first tent camp on Sunday.