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The "Jordan River Foundation" was founded earlier by Queen Nour Al Hussein, the wife of the late king of Jordan Hussein bin Talal, after the death of king Hussein, queen Nour left her position as the Chair person of "Jordan River Foundation" and the new queen Rania took over the position. The Jordan River Foundation is a Nonprofit organization started back in the early nineties( sometime after 1990) Amman, Jordan to empower society, especially women and children, and in turn, improve the quality of life to secure a better future for all Jordanians. The foundation was founded by and is chaired by queen Nour Al Hussein and then chaired by Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emro.who.int/PressReleases/queenrania_biography.htm )〕〔. Jordan River Foundation, 2008〕 ==Showroom== Located on Jabal Amman, the Jordan River Foundation showroom occupies the house built in the 1936〔Jordan River Foundation house plaque. Jordan River Foundation, 2008〕 by Salim al-Odat. Odat rented the house to the British army throughout the 1930s to be used as offices. He sold it in 1939, after which it went through a number of owners in which it was used as a house, a police station, and a school during the 1960s. But in the 1980s, the house was abandoned and fell into disrepair.〔 Then, at the end of the decade, when a potential buyer threatened to tear down the house, architect Zaid al-Qoussous bought it so as to preserve the house. In 1994, the house was bought and renovated by the Jordan River Foundation to be used as their showroom.〔 Several companies and embassies contributed to the renovation:〔 *USAID *Embassy of Japan *Canadian Embassy *Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany *Australian Embassy * Othman Mohamed Ali Bdeir *Arab Technical Group *Heating Supplies Company *Technolinks 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jordan River Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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