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Description
The Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project (USAID SCHEP) is a cooperative agreement between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR). The first phase of the project was implemented from 2014 until 2018 at nine heritage sites throughout Jordan.
The southern Jordan Valley was a hub for sugar production between the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. This history can be experienced today at the medieval Islamic sugar factory that still stands in Ghawr as Safi. SCHEP worked with the Ghawr as Safi project to help stabilize aspects of this site, clean it up, and make it easy for visitors to access and interpret.
