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Story to Action Lab

Portfolios dedicated to bridging narrative to policy & programming across multiple displacement contexts.

Jordan

Updated 2026: Story to Action Lab Project Pia & Kristi

Za'atari Camp

Jordan: Za'atari Refugee Camp

In Za'atari refugee camp, our Lab began with The Refugee Archive's first oral history, collected to pilot our method and learn what it takes to document women's lives with care and consistency in a camp setting. Za'atari remains one of the largest Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, home to tens of thousands of people (around 65,000 in mid-2025), and it continues to generate a deep record of displacement, family separation, and survival that is too often flattened into statistics.

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Local partners coordinating field logic to be announced.

Ataa's Story: Episodes

Oral History Project

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Refugee Voices: Field Notes

Dispatches and photography direct from the camp.

Donkeys and Caravans: Za'atari Camp, Jordan by KDR

Let's visit Ataa in Jordan through the small moments she captured with her lens

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Flowers, Language, Horizons: Zaatari Camp, Jordan by KDR

A mother’s love and lessons from inside the camp walls, captured in everyday moments

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Active Campaigns

Oral Histories

Preserving narratives of female heads of household living in current displacement settings in fragile places.

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FHH Policy Tracker

A student-led policy tracker, examining how national laws shape the lives of displaced single mothers and female-headed households across conflict and displacement settings.

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Oral History Education
Program

Custom-built, multilingual training program that equips Story-to-Action Lab partners to ethically collect historical and present-day testimonies. Delivered through a hybrid learning portal with interactive modules, live classes, and mentorship throughout each partnership.

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