Urban renewal projects, most recently the realization of a costly commercial complex built near the capital’s historic downtown, have (re)shaped Amman’s topography as it has expanded outward, forcing many communities out of the city center to accordingly peripheral areas; in neighborhoods such as hashmī al-shamālī, slightly north-east of this latest investment in metropolitan development and growth, these contemporary dislocations have compounded the population stresses affected by earlier civil affrays throughout the region. Now proverbially ‘left behind’ in pursuance of large-scale municipal planning and ordinary organizational activities, those who remain as organizational attendants have become integral connective links, utilizing their personal and professional supports to temporarily mend individual lives touched by governmental and institutional disregard. In drawing on many months of dissertation fieldwork, this paper turns to the practices through which Khalida, the volunteer supervisor of one such organizational outpost in hashmī al-shamālī, enacts what she herself has typified r‘āīaa [‘care’]. In line with much recent important writing on care as acutely social, political, and relational from scholars such as Alize Arican, Carol Gilligan, and Sarah Marie Hall, I argue that the carework manifest by Khalida—prosaic, intimate, temporary—fixes an anomalous form of organizational occupation, one that genuinely takes on the lived realities of state neglect. Attending to the pressing and penetrating logics of care, this presentation locates Khalida’s care as a mechanism for material endurance at a most immediate scale: that of life and livelihood.